Salthill,what would enhance it now?

howyanow

Always hear people reminiscing of the good oul days in Salthill i.e 70's and 80's drinking culture.Them days are long gone and Salthill "village" itself has changed from hotels and bars along the main street to coffee shops and restaurants.
What I am asking really is what is not in Salthill now that should be in ye're opinion.maybe Library,credit union,bicycle rental....?

death1234567

During the boom I was baffled why that area wasn't redeveloped properly, it badly needs it. I guess it made more sense for the council to zone land out in Roscam/Doughiska than to renovate existing areas.

MadYaker

death1234567 wrote: »

During the boom I was baffled why that area wasn't redeveloped properly, it badly needs it. I guess it made more sense for the council to zone land out in Roscam/Doughiska than to renovate existing areas.

Theres that one massive horrifically ugly building which is now empty. That probably counted as "redevelopment".....

snubbleste

Bring back drinking culture..oh wait

Sadderday

give it some sun,

thats all anywhere needs to be lovely

howyanow

it was developed hugely,all the apartment blocks on quincentennial drive.im asking really what was omitted that should have been put in place?

Storm 10

Well a Library, Credit Union or Bike Rental will not make a difference , its a Holiday resort and those things you mentioned are in Town and not what people would be looking for on holiday. As stated all Salthill needs is Sun and when its out there is no place like it.

Gambas

Long term what the area between the Warwick and the Garda Station needs is a coherent building design plan that is enforced. The development that took place 10-20 years ago was diabolical. On the Seafront, only one or two apartment complexes are anything other than cheap thrown up eyesores (Point Boise being on exception). In the village it is a hotchpotch ugly mess.

Right now, it could do with a good vegetable shop, and a small supermarket that fills a different niche from Morton's. IMO. And a branch of Le Petit Delice.

Oh, and someone to actually get fined for leaving their dogs turd on the prom, instead of relying on little girls bicycle wheels and shoes to remove it for them. Like the by-laws say should happen.

Mrs Garth Brooks

The sun and the air show

BhoscaCapall

howyanow wrote: »

Always hear people reminiscing of the good oul days in Salthill i.e 70's and 80's drinking culture..?

In case you haven't noticed, 70s and 80s drinking culture and indeed most forms of socialising with alcohol are frowned upon these days. Didn't you know tourism in Galway has plummeted 200% after some Americans saw a load of people in Donegal jerseys queueing for a pub.

Paddyfield

I like Salthill as it is now. The Prom is a wonderful amenity. I wish the fun fair was tidied up when it emerges next month; it always strikes me that Health & Safety people could have a field day.

Pearse Stadium is such an underutilised facility. Can you imagine it it was transformed into a municipal floodtlit all seater stadium? Connacht Rugby and Galway United FC (when they come back next year...!) and the GAA teams would reap the benefits. As well as concerts.

And speaking of concerts, it's hard to believe that Leisureland has hosted regular sell out concerts in the 80's. U2, The Smiths, Pretenders, Status Quo, Thin Lizzy, Madness etc etc all played their at the height of their fame.

But as a previous poster implied... Salthill + sunshine = bliss.

A sea organ / musical prom would be cool.

This is one in Zadar, Croatia.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBhk5KFwLVc

Mrs OBumble

Storm 10 wrote: »

Well a Library, Credit Union or Bike Rental will not make a difference , its a Holiday resort and those things you mentioned are in Town and not what people would be looking for on holiday. As stated all Salthill needs is Sun and when its out there is no place like it.

It used to be a holiday resort back in the day before people flew to Spain for the sun.

Now it's just a suburb of Galway city. Needs a community centre (currently the mother-and-baby group meets in a pub, ffs!) , library and supermarket, and a through bus-service from Knocknacarra.

snubbleste

Salthill needs poor people to enhance it...and a Lidl.

kraggy

Deleted User wrote: »

A sea organ / musical prom would be cool.

This is one in Zadar, Croatia.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBhk5KFwLVc

I might be going against the grain here but I think that's awful and tacky. When I go to the sea, I want to hear the sea. And I don't want to see flashing lights in the midst of nature.

gordongekko

they should take away that fecking charity thing at the wall at the end of the prom.

kraggy

kraggy wrote: »

I might be going against the grain here but I think that's awful and tacky. When I go to the sea, I want to hear the sea. And I don't want to see flashing lights in the midst of nature.

fair enough - I don't fancy the lights myself. The organ would only be ten or so metres long on one part of the prom.

Cleahaigh

They should build a big-assed wave machine so that we could surf every day, man.

_Whimsical_

Ideal world stuff where you don't have to worry about rowdy drunks destroying things in the night but...

Maybe turning the green area across from Leisureland into a very nice park that people use.It's an amazing location. It could have a playground,some set walks or some nice amenities, like perhaps a really nice pagoda where you could sit and look down on the view of Salthill.
Maybe a nice farmers market some weekends during the summer outside or in a marquee.
I'd like something that everyone could use that might make Salthill somewhere you could go to make a day of it rather than somewhere for the 30 min dash across the prom.

Cleahaigh

gordongekko wrote: »

they should take away that fecking charity thing at the wall at the end of the prom.

I heartily endorse this post. I would take up arms to help enforce its sentiment.

dinneenp

Weekend artists stands (where the chess board is)
More musical evenings (on the grass area)

Links234

_Whimsical_ wrote: »

Maybe a nice farmers market some weekends during the summer outside or in a marquee.

it'd be the perfect spot for it, like the market in Dun Laoghaire

Gambas

Links234 wrote: »

it'd be the perfect spot for it, like the market in Dun Laoghaire

Can't see the need seeing as there is a a real market little over a mile away.

GastroBoy

On a side note, did anyone see the awful colour they painted the seapoint building, horrible grey colour. It just looks like a prison now.

Apart from that I quite like Salthill now as it is, maybe it would be good if the prom was extended up to, say, where the driving range is but perhaps that wouldn't work.

Links234

Gambas wrote: »

Can't see the need seeing as there is a a real market little over a mile away.

completely depends on what's available at it, and for many people living locally it might be a better option. I'm pretty sure Galway could sustain more than one, sure they managed to have the xmas market in the square so a summer market might be very popular

beardybrewer

Mrs OBumble wrote: »

Now it's just a suburb of Galway city. Needs a community centre (currently the mother-and-baby group meets in a pub, ffs!) , library and supermarket, and a through bus-service from Knocknacarra.

This.

jkforde

GastroBoy wrote: »

On a side note, did anyone see the awful colour they painted the seapoint building, horrible grey colour.

yeah, all the grey mushroom colours must be 'in' or just cheap. the village should go down the route of Eyeries in Cork and paint the place in psychedelic colours, God knows we have enough monotonous grey above our heads than to have to look at more of it at ground level! at least the place appears fresh & clean now.

Bobeagleburger

It could be lovely but a lot of of is a complete dive. Shame tbh.

daithi1970

A bomb to get rid of Baily Point-its a fecking monstrosity.

daithi

carrick76

Pedestrianise between Seapoint and O'Connors. Allow restaurants and pubs to put more tables outside. It's horrible at the moment with cars everywhere.

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brokenarms

As a visitor there last year in the week of good weather we had, I was really surprised by the amount of drinking on the beach. Its hardly a place where you can let your children go because of the problem.
People drinking fighting and shouting all day.

All one could see the whole way up the strand was heavy gold chain clade <snip> baked pink in the sun.

Maybe a bigger garda presence would help .