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Adamstown?

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  • 13-12-2010 9:37pm
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    dave 27
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    Hi guys, doing a dissertation about planning in dublin and was thinking about using adamstown as an example of good practice, so is it actually as nice as it looks or is it dodgy at night time etc?


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    Fortune_Cookie
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    My mate lives there. It's a really nice area. She's had no problems since she moved there. You might get more responses if you post in the Dublin west board as Adamstown is considered part of Lucan.


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    leinster93
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    Seemed like an alright place last August when I got off at Adamstown train station to get to a part of Lucan…about 7 in the evening. Very eerie though… No one about when walking from the train station to the rear entrance at Finnstown house. A few people got off the train but disappeared within minutes.
    Took a trip back a week later out of curiosity to see what it was really like. Same again. A lot of foreign kids, approximately twenty, centred in a small green area with a tiny play ground. Certainly, not sufficient in my eyes for the amount of children there.
    Walking about the area seemed a lot of apartments were empty. A strip of rough land lay fenced off, obviously some sort of plan for it to be developed but has been left idle. (Most likely another consequence of the downturn where the developer probably couldn’t get the cash to finish it or else just abandoned plans to complete the development altogether.)
    Walking further in to the right hand side at the rear of Finnstown house a large two story building, another apartment block structure, lay incomplete and looks dreadful. There are no windows, doors or anything in the building, basically it is a shell. Another victim of the over development within this country.
    An example of good practice in planning? Debatable!


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    HavingCrack
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    Technically speaking it would have been an example of good planning practice if the recession hadn't hit. The development plans for the area all adhere to sustainable development etc.


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    tHE vAGGABOND
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    get a bus out there and check it out :)


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    leinster93
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    HavingCrack wrote: »
    Technically speaking it would have been an example of good planning practice if the recession hadn't hit. The development plans for the area all adhere to sustainable development etc.

    Good planning should incorporate a risk analysis which may include, lack of funding, resources, developer going bust, recession etc. This would identify how the risk would be dealt with if such arises...ie good planning practice. Hence, debatable. As said, worth a trip there to see first hand.


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    dave 27
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    leinster93 wrote: »
    Good planning should incorporate a risk analysis which may include, lack of funding, resources, developer going bust, recession etc. This would identify how the risk would be dealt with if such arises...ie good planning practice. Hence, debatable. As said, worth a trip there to see first hand.

    Id love to actually pay it a visit but im living in limerick and trying to get time off from work and college is hard! :(


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