Heads up for Beechdale and Hunterswood residences in Firhouse

gandalf

Planning permission has been sought for a Nursing Home in the green fields Opposite the waste area at Beechdale beside Hunterswood

http://www.sdublincoco.ie/index.aspx?pageid=144&regref=SD09A/0491&type=apps&dateoptions=any&area=Any&keywordtype=regref&term=SD09A/0491

Why are the council not using the sites further up Stocking Lane that already have planning permission for apartments. Seems strange that they are trying to get new sites up and running when there are ones that are a mess and will never be built given the surplus of apartments out in the market.

seamus

Yeah, I tend to agree on the odd choice of location. I'm sure if they'd approached ellier or one of the other developers sitting on land up there, they would have been more than happy to get it off their hands, in a "we pay for it, you build it and give us the land" arrangement.

Maybe ellier are insistent on going ahead with the developments though and that land was as close as they could get to the local amenties - buses and shop.

Irritates me though that it looks like they're going to tear up that junction again. Why?

There's also a piece of actual wasteland about 50m down the road on the opposite side of the road which is constantly being used by gangs and no doubt a nightmare for residents in beechdale. Why didn't they use that?