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Building opposite The Marshes

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  • 05-05-2017 9:02pm
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    peewee_44
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    What exactly is happening over there heard it was a park then a school but starting to look more like a school.


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    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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    It's a new secondary school and a park.


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    peewee_44
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    Oh great thank you was hoping there was going to be a park


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    BlueLass
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    Probably wrong here but I thought as part of the planning permission granted a new public park and play area was to be included with the school! If anyone knows the truth if this it'll probably be Srameen!


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    10green bottles
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    Site for Fossetts clown school with a lion taming academy to be added site by 2019 or lose all funding!


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    Nesta99
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    Dont know why they are building a school so close to an already congested town centre area. Urban parks are a once off chance as if built on obviously they wont return to parkland. Clarkes Forest would have made a lovely town centre park and associated play areas and amenities. There are bound to be other sites around town that a school could have been built without using up a potential urban park. While congestion would still be an issue isnt there land available near DPL closer to the Ramparts, Site of the temporary Tesco on Hill Street. Adapation of Carroll Village and/or Long Walk and with the car park areas there too. All classes or years dont have to be housed under one roof and with a bit of thought vacant buildings like on the Inner Relief Rd could also have been utilised and maybe even cheaper than a brand new building. When you consider the way the Demense and how it could have been without being built on with now almost defunct shopping centres and how it could have been linked to Ice House Hill it would have been a lovely public urban space where there would even have been room for a ouple of Summer League pitches among other possibilities and considering that the large entry gates at Jimmys Pub might still be there too. When these parcels of land are go it is looked back on as an error yet it is still happening. The area at Mourneview could also be landscaped for a publi park on the south side of town.


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    The one bit of town that doesn't be completely clogged up at any point in the day is now going to be clogged up in the mornings and afternoons, lovely.
    How much is Dundalk's population exploding by that a full new school is needed straight after the Marist had their new building done?


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