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Developers praised by manager of Cork City

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  • 15-07-2010 12:51pm
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    dodger50
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    Irish Times article

    While I would agree with some of this there is some .........
    * Lapps Quay is nice, ish. Personally I think the buildings are a floor or more too tall. But is it appropriate that the city manager should speak out "against what he felt was the vilification of certain developers" while at the same time "Mr Coughlan is understood to be living abroad :cool: having failed to obey court orders"?

    *THe Blackpool centre is a great bonus for the area but the apartment blocks!!! :eek: They look like ugly leftovers from the great residential blocks from East Berlin. Again I think they are far too tall and out of proportion with the area they are located. Are they all occupied?

    *"Praising I developers in general, he said they were “very impressive in their skills and ability to organise and construct” "Mr Gavin also defended developers who embarked on projects that ran out of money mid-construction" :confused:
    No need for NAMA at all then!!!!!

    In the past I remember Mr Gavin praising another great monstrosity in Cork - the two prison blocks posing as residential and medical facilities at the top of Sth Terrace.

    Mr Gavin deserves great praise for the part he has played in making Cork the modern city it is today but I certainly do not subscribe to the thrust of this article, that all development is good development!

    D


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    MunsterCycling
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    Would this not be the same guy who ran Galway into the ground? He has led the destruction of Cork as we know it and personally I am glad to be shut of him and his "planning" decisions. More like bown paper bags.


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    run_Forrest_run
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    dodger50 wrote: »
    In the past I remember Mr Gavin praising another great monstrosity in Cork - the two prison blocks posing as residential and medical facilities at the top of Sth Terrace.

    D

    totally agree, I lived in these white elephants for a few months and they are as bad inside as they are outside, bloody awful things.


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    FTGFOP
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    They're as ugly as sin on the outside all right but what was wrong with them on the inside? Were the walls and floors good enough to keep noise out or were they cardboardy?

    See a good number up on daft at the moment, some seem OK.


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    corkcomp
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    what a joke.. the guy cant exacly be impartial..


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    moceri
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