Land Development Agency-possible sites

pigtown

The new Land Development Agency was announced today, it will use publicly-owned land for housing.
Any ideas what sites in Limerick could be used? I'm thinking the land around St. Joseph's hospital has potential.

Vanquished

pigtown wrote: »

The new Land Development Agency was announced today, it will use publicly-owned land for housing.
Any ideas what sites in Limerick could be used? I'm thinking the land around St. Joseph's hospital has potential.

I had the exact same thought. There is a large landbank there. Much of the site to rear of the hospital building and down towards the cemetary is undeveloped. There is potential for good density residential accomodation here with proximity to the city centre.


The former Guinness depot on Carey's Road is another which should be a prime site for residential development.

pigtown

Is the Guinness site in state ownership? I'd like to know how much land CIE owns around the rail station.

Vanquished

It's owned by the Council. They were keen to sell it but as far as I know it's still in their hands.

zulutango

There is a report from a couple of years ago carried out by the Council which looks at potential sites. They whittled it down from 80 publically owned sites to 23 potentially viable ones in the city. I can't find it online but it was called the ASH report if anyone cares to look.

pigtown

Sounds exactly what I'm looking for. I couldn't find it online either though. I suppose the Bord Gais site could be looked at, and maybe some of the docks?

zulutango

The Shannon Foynes Port Company are looking at developing the docks, but mostly for commercial and industrial purposes, unfortunately. The Bord Gais site is being prepared for sale I think. I don't think either would be considering publicly owned?

pigtown

I understood that they were talking about all state agencies like the HSE as well as local authorities. Maybe I got that wrong