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Hunters Wood, Dublin 24
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Tbh, while some of the finishing in the properties was cheap and poor, the actual structural build is pretty good considering when they were built. I've lived in proper cardboard celtic tiger builds, the stuff in Hunterswood is well built, just cheaply finished. Maybe there was a change in building standards or something.personally not a fan of Hunterswood its typical of al lot of boomtime builds walls like cardboard, properties shoehorned on top of each other, very few ameneties, a crap bus service, cronic traffic.
The bus service is actually great. You've two routes terminating there and leaving on a regular basis. It's a better service than you get in some places closer to the city
Don't notice the traffic myself, but then I don't drive to work. Outside of peak times, there are no traffic issues.
Amenities is a fair point, but it's getting better with the Lidl going in down the road and the local area plan being finalised.
It's worth remembering that the estate is less than ten years old and the arse fell out of everything right as the estate was finished, so all of the amenities of shops, parklands, sports grounds, etc which would have been built, weren't. They will come along in the next decade.
The "community feel" has definitely been coming into the estate over the last few years. People have been settling properly there (rather than moving onto bigger properties), having kids, etc.
It's a weird one. Daletree and Beechdale have a reputation for having regular low-level trouble, which for some reason hasn't crept into Hunterswood, except for the one road bordering Daletree.the last post and all the anti social behavior being mentioned is news to me though. Not sure its as bad as the last poster seems to be making out.
There is a road of traveller accommodation in Daletree which is just a complete cesspit, so perhaps that's the source of the reputation and Beechdale/Daletree on the whole is actually fine.
Or maybe it's the fact that it borders Ballycragh Park and Scholar's Pub, both of which have reputations for being less than savoury after dark.0 -
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I had heard rumours that Ellier (the guys who are building Dalriada) had gone into receivership, but I can't find any information on it, and they have changed the plans in the last 12 months. Where they previously planned to build duplexes and apartment blocks on that land, they've changed it now to townhouses and semi-d's. They've obviously spotted the shortfall in the market and have decided to go for it.Dalriada and Stocking Wood will be completed relatively quickly now. They are lashing up houses in Stocking Wood from foundation to ridge in only 6 weeks recently, and they sold out before there was a spade in the ground. The builders will take advantage of the current madness (at least in the headlines) to get them up while the market is going.
New phases of both will be announced and it will be like 2005 all over again with queues of people pen in hand ready to sign off the plans.
Building has resumed in Stocking Wood, much to the relief of the existing residents, but I've seen no sign of any work in Dalriada for at least a year. For the moment, they're just filling in the gap at Stocking Wood Walk, but I wouldn't be surprised if they move across the road to sort out Stocking Well after that.
Little thing you mightn't have known; the original plans for Dalriada on both sides of Stocking Avenue were to build five-storey "landmark" apartment blocks, the same size as Hunter's hall. If they'd started building them in 2005 you could easily have a southside Ballymun right there full of problem tenants and empty apartments.The council's Local Area Plan also radically changes the density, and they envision streets of semi-d's with driveways and gardens the further up the hill you go south of the Oldcourt Road. It will be nothing like Hunterswood, which speaking as someone who spent his earlier years walking up the Kilakee Road to the hellfire club, is an absolute travesty in terms of suitable design/density for that spot.
If not that, it would still have been an out-of-place eyesore like the stuff that was built all along the Enniskerry Road.
Thankfully they've changed these to just houses and I get to keep my view 0 -
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I had heard rumours that Ellier (the guys who are building Dalriada) had gone into receivership, but I can't find any information on it, and they have changed the plans in the last 12 months. Where they previously planned to build duplexes and apartment blocks on that land, they've changed it now to townhouses and semi-d's. They've obviously spotted the shortfall in the market and have decided to go for it.
Building has resumed in Stocking Wood, much to the relief of the existing residents, but I've seen no sign of any work in Dalriada for at least a year. For the moment, they're just filling in the gap at Stocking Wood Walk, but I wouldn't be surprised if they move across the road to sort out Stocking Well after that.
Little thing you mightn't have known; the original plans for Dalriada on both sides of Stocking Avenue were to build five-storey "landmark" apartment blocks, the same size as Hunter's hall. If they'd started building them in 2005 you could easily have a southside Ballymun right there full of problem tenants and empty apartments.
If not that, it would still have been an out-of-place eyesore like the stuff that was built all along the Enniskerry Road.
Thankfully they've changed these to just houses and I get to keep my view
I hate hunters hall, it's just too high and looks out if place. God can't imagine 3 together.. Thank god their plans have changed.
Seamus, where are you living?0 -
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Also interested to see if there is much anti-social behaviour in the area?
Is there still hassle, as previously mentioned, from the halting site?
Doesn't seem to be much activity on this thread unfortunately - but I have been googling and there's actually a message board/forum dedicated to neighbourhoods and areas. If you google Hunters Wood it should appear in the google list and you can click in and see what people are discussing there. Seems to be ongoing issues with gangs of teenagers hanging round and some other stuff (lots of cars broken into recently)...
I don't want to link directly to the other site but it's the same name as a well known Aussie tv show...
You could register on that site I'm sure and perhaps PM people to ask for thoughts...
I actually noticed one property advert recently list the management fees and they were over €2k (around 2.2 I think)!! That's the highest I've ever seen! Other places I've looked at are around €1,200 - 1,600...! It's putting me off a bit, combined with the other issues.0 -
I sold up there a couple of months back. Any anti-social issues are way overplayed on the online forum
There is a traveller site on Daletree Avenue that's a constant eyesore, but is separate from Hunterswood by a fence. So the worst that may happen every couple of months is that a gang of traveller kids come over the fence and start causing hassle for other kids on the main green. Those travellers usually stick to causing trouble in Beechdale/Daletree. Reading back, my earlier posts on this actually are all still relevant.
Break-ins and car robberies are going on all across that section of South Dublin at the moment - anywhere along the M50 including Knocklyon, Ballinteer, Sandyford, Carrickmines, Foxrock, are all reporting similar issues with burglaries and opportunistic crimes.
The apartment block - that is the tall block and the row attached to it, is the same as any other apartment block in that you will have one or two unruly neighbours, especially in rented units. I've never seen anything intimidating though, once or twice a year someone would have a party that ends up with people on a balcony shouting out to their mates on the road at 3am.
Yes, management fees for the apartments are somewhat high, though it depends on the size of the unit you have. Houses are typically around €450/year. Duplexes were €950 when I moved out. The top-floor penthouse apartment (I think it's a 3-bed) was around €2,500, with the rest of the apartments somewhere between €1,500 and €2,100 depending on the location and number of beds. In the apartments you're primarily paying for lift upkeep, your block insurance and your car park gates, which were installed about 2 years ago.
The original builder also never put in a sinking fund, so all of the units are currently paying a little over the odds for a couple of years to try and build one up.
We moved to get more space - we were within a fanny fart of buying a house on Hunter's Meadow, the only thing which held us back is the catchment area for schools. Otherwise we would have happily stayed in Hunterswood. A lot of residents up there actually move within the estate (from apartments/duplexes into houses), which is a good indicator of whether a place is nice to live.
Unfortunately over the Halloween weekend there was a bin fire at the apartment block which badly smoke damaged two of the apartments. This will probably cause the management fees for the apartments to go up again. The cause here was a bin that for some inexplicable reason had been left exposed/unlocked and set on fire by someone.0 -
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