What areas escaped the building boom (ANYWHERE)?

woolyhat

Just curious to know what towns, villages escaped the building boom ?

Tipp town, name says it all

Oliver1985

Benburb street:D

tHE vAGGABOND

Tipp town has a couple of new useless ugly 'Celtic Tiger' housing estates, one beside the grave yard on the edge of town there...

So while its not the nicest place in the country, it did not totally escape the boom

mariaalice

A lot of north wicklow escaped the building boom because wicklow co council is very stricken with planing permission.

PopUp

This link shows the prevalence of ghost estates by county. Leitrim, Longford, Roscommon, and Sligo are the worst effected but no area escaped (urban areas have low levels of ghost estates but they have a glut of shoddy apartment blocks to make up for it).

Of course, this is a very incomplete picture. Ghost estates are not the only form of empty housing in Ireland. There are plenty of empties in otherwise populated and established areas. Some towns may have escaped the construction of a ghost estate but that doesn't mean they are protected from knock-on negative effects - if there is a lot of empty houses within twenty to thirty miles of a town, house prices in the town will still be effected.

In short, if you are looking for some untouched cosy village where house and land prices did not spiral madly out of control, you will be looking for a long time. Everywhere went nuts, and everywhere is in the middle of the long hangover that must inevitably follow.

Sorry to be so depressing but your previous posts on this forum made me think you might be hunting for something that doesn't exist. If there is a village out there that wasn't developed to hell during the boom times, it would have been because it was utterly isolated in terms of infrastructure and amenities - not somewhere worth relocating to now, in other words.

woolyhat

PopUp wrote: »

This link shows the prevalence of ghost estates by county. Leitrim, Longford, Roscommon, and Sligo are the worst effected but no area escaped (urban areas have low levels of ghost estates but they have a glut of shoddy apartment blocks to make up for it).

Of course, this is a very incomplete picture. Ghost estates are not the only form of empty housing in Ireland. There are plenty of empties in otherwise populated and established areas. Some towns may have escaped the construction of a ghost estate but that doesn't mean they are protected from knock-on negative effects - if there is a lot of empty houses within twenty to thirty miles of a town, house prices in the town will still be effected.

In short, if you are looking for some untouched cosy village where house and land prices did not spiral madly out of control, you will be looking for a long time. Everywhere went nuts, and everywhere is in the middle of the long hangover that must inevitably follow.

Sorry to be so depressing but your previous posts on this forum made me think you might be hunting for something that doesn't exist. If there is a village out there that wasn't developed to hell during the boom times, it would have been because it was utterly isolated in terms of infrastructure and amenities - not somewhere worth relocating to now, in other words.

Yes I did think by some chance there was some unspoilt places.
Near where I live there was a lovely quite river where no one went much now it.s changed completely trees cut down rubble still remain no peace or a thing of beauty anymore and no one live in the houses.
Who did they think was going to buy all these houses anyway?

Blackjack

woolyhat wrote: »

Just curious to know what towns, villages escaped the building boom ?

Most parts of Erris.

Not many people there to buy homes in the first place.

Jo King

tHE vAGGABOND wrote: »

Tipp town has a couple of new useless ugly 'Celtic Tiger' housing estates, one beside the grave yard on the edge of town there...

So while its not the nicest place in the country, it did not totally escape the boom

They are not ghost estates however. The were also quite a number of plush one off houses built around the environs of the town.

woolyhat

Jo King wrote: »

They are not ghost estates however. The were also quite a number of plush one off houses built around the environs of the town.

Thanks for your reply. Was this onely in Tipp town or did it happen in other areas too?