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Where do you see house prices in Greystones over the next 10 years

  • 04-09-2019 1:39pm
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    Registered Users Posts: 336 ✭✭


    Hi All,

    As the title says, where do you see house prices heading over the next 10 years or even 20 years in Greystones over the next decade or two?

    Are there any developments that might impact that in infrastructure, is the market overpriced at the moment or quite balanced due to the mortgage caps?

    Global economy slowdown currently under way etc

    Thanks for your insights! :)


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  • Moderators, Music Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,734 Mod ✭✭✭✭Boom_Bap


    I generally look at house prices on daft or myhome.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,766 ✭✭✭✭TheValeyard


    Probably still in Greystones

    All eyes on Kursk. Slava Ukraini.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,108 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    Total collapse

    Harbour apartments will probably be lashed out of it with climate change
    Overdevelopment of housing
    Public transport that cannot cope
    Crazy traffic congestion because of all these new schools, houses and poor public transport.
    Continued government strategy of government investing employment in centre of Dublin.

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,280 ✭✭✭✭Eric Cartman


    anywhere theyre building social housing will be a hell hole in 10-12 years time when the kids become teenagers, thats where not to buy a house.


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    anywhere theyre building social housing will be a hell hole in 10-12 years time when the kids become teenagers, thats where not to buy a house.

    Where are they building social housing in Greystones?


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  • Administrators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 77,707 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Beasty


    Moved from CA/IMHO


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,329 ✭✭✭el Fenomeno


    As disastrous as poor public transport and traffic congestion can be, I don't think it's a strong enough consideration to swing house prices.


  • Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 12,603 Mod ✭✭✭✭2011


    Total collapse

    Agree.
    Harbour apartments will probably be lashed out of it with climate change

    Sea levels will not be a problem for these apartments in the next 300 years in my opinion. However like all homes in Ireland they will increasingly be exposed to some extreme weather events.
    Overdevelopment of housing
    Public transport that cannot cope
    Crazy traffic congestion because of all these new schools, houses and poor public transport.
    Continued government strategy of government investing employment in centre of Dublin.

    Agree.

    Property in general is overpriced and increasing at an unsustainable rate. We have been through this before not so long ago.

    Greystones is slowly being destroyed by a combination of overdevelopment, poor planning and greed. The quaint village that I remember is nothing more than a distant memory. Sadly Greystones is slowly morphing into a high density Blanchardstown / Tallagh / Dundrum clone and the infrastructure simply can't cope. The only good news I see is that building standards are significantly better this time around compared to the poorly built units in developments such as Charlesland.


  • Registered Users Posts: 247 ✭✭Cluster


    well If you go by how it is now, even more beautiful. My friends who grew up here all would love to move back here now but have made their lives elsewhere now and have missed that boat. The ones that have stayed and have families of their own now love it even more.

    The rose tinted glasses on people here are in every town in Ireland. Where I grew up was once lush green fields but is now home to thousands of extra people, I understand that people have to live somewhere but being from Dublin maybe I am more open to that then some of the posters here.

    There are challenges everywhere and Greystones wont be immune to that but its got a good head start on other places.

    House prices will inevitably drop and rise again as mine have over the last 15 years or so but it will be the people that make this town great into the future.

    Dont mind these naysayers, I see them post continually negative comments. There is no reason why Greystones cant flourish over next 20 years.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,814 ✭✭✭The J Stands for Jay


    Total collapse

    Harbour apartments will probably be lashed out of it with climate change

    They'll be lashed out of it in the next month or two .


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  • Administrators Posts: 54,123 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭awec


    This is reading a bit like the Greystones Open Forum, where the cranks complain about the housing crisis, but then complain when houses are built. Complain about a lack of school places, but then complain when schools are built. They want the housing crisis solved, but only so long as their tiny village gets to stay a tiny village. Villages eventually become towns, which eventually become large towns, that's just how it works.

    In the past decade or so they've developed the M1, and developed the M7. The M11 will surely be widened. They're looking at the buses already. The DART will be looked at at some point too. Realistically, Greystones is going to be continued to be seen as a nice commuter town long into the future, especially as Dublin continues to expand outward, and the commuter belt widens.

    Greystones (and the M11) isn't even the worst commuter route in/out of Dublin for congestion, the M7 is much worse.

    Greystones house prices will rise and fall the same as the rest of Ireland. The idea that Greystones is going to suffer some collapse of prices relative to everywhere else is just bizarre. Greystones isn't it's own little market, isolated from the rest of Ireland.


  • Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 12,603 Mod ✭✭✭✭2011


    awec wrote: »
    cranks complain about the housing crisis, but then complain when houses are built.

    It is not enough to simply build houses, we need a proper planning and to think about infrastructure. On a positive note a bit more thought seems to have gone into the design of new homes and there appears to be less “micro homes”.

    There are consequences to building homes with only maximizing profits in mind which is what seems to be happening. Just look at where lack of proper planning got us in the past.
    Complain about a lack of school places, but then complain when schools are built.

    Personally I think that new schools are a great idea and the location of the new school at the rear of Charlesland is a good one as it is well served by roads, cycling lanes and is within walking distance of many homes.

    Villages eventually become towns, which eventually become large towns, that's just how it works.

    First of all Greystones ceased being a village long ago, so that ship has sailed.
    Secondly not every village is suited to becoming a town.
    The DART will be looked at at some point too.

    Highly unlikely that this will happen for many generations as there is only room for one track through Bray head. Due to this salient fact there is little scope for improvement.
    Greystones (and the M11) isn't even the worst commuter route

    Agreed, but you have set the bar very low. I think that we should be more ambitious than setting a target of just being better than the M7.
    The idea that Greystones is going to suffer some collapse of prices relative to everywhere else is just bizarre.

    I did not see this view has not been expressed on this thread.


  • Administrators Posts: 54,123 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭awec


    Population comes before infrastructure. While it would be great, they aren't going to build new roads, widen motorways, increase public transport spending etc before there is the population to justify it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,500 ✭✭✭RosieJoe


    I cannot see how the M11 can be widened, especially the Glen of the Downs seeing as it is a nature reserve


  • Administrators Posts: 54,123 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭awec


    RosieJoe wrote: »
    I cannot see how the M11 can be widened, especially the Glen of the Downs seeing as it is a nature reserve

    I think a third lane would be feasible as far south as Fassaroe, maybe Greystones.

    I have no idea if this has ever been discussed by the government, and I'm sure it would be many years away, but it's somewhat inevitable.

    Preventing population growth in Dublin's commuter belt is just not possible.


  • Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 12,603 Mod ✭✭✭✭2011


    RosieJoe wrote: »
    I cannot see how the M11 can be widened again, especially the Glen of the Downs seeing as it is a nature reserve

    I fixed your post :)


  • Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 12,603 Mod ✭✭✭✭2011


    awec wrote: »
    Preventing population growth in Dublin's commuter belt is just not possible.

    The impact could be reduced if the government do what so many people have asked them to do and allow high rise and high density solutions in Dublin.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,115 ✭✭✭✭loyatemu


    awec wrote: »
    I think a third lane would be feasible as far south as Fassaroe, maybe Greystones.

    I have no idea if this has ever been discussed by the government, and I'm sure it would be many years away, but it's somewhat inevitable.

    Preventing population growth in Dublin's commuter belt is just not possible.

    3rd lane as far as junction 7 is planned and will probably be built in the next 5 years.

    Further south there are likely to be junction upgrades and auxiliary roads to take local traffic off the main N11 (e.g. between Kilpedder, Newtown and Ashford) - this is being designed currently.

    A new road from Blacklion to the N11 at junction 9 (Glenview) is on the county plan. Probably 10 years away at least.

    TII commissioned an engineering report on increasing DART capacity - it's on Derek Mitchell's website. It says 20 minute frequency is possible with some double-tracking. Train frequency to Wicklow needs to be improved too, but Irish Rail need more carriages and these are some years away.

    WRT house prices, over 20 years you'd expect them to go up (is there any 20 year period in the past where they haven't increased?).


  • Registered Users Posts: 336 ✭✭Captcha


    Thanks all... I just bought a new build in Greystones and your comments above have been helpful. Will move in before Xmas.

    I noticed some traffic build up on the N11 sometimes and feel a third lane would be very welcomed!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 505 ✭✭✭zanador


    anywhere theyre building social housing will be a hell hole in 10-12 years time when the kids become teenagers, thats where not to buy a house.

    Are you from Greystones? Our newest full social housing estate rather than mixed is built about 10-15 years and is full of kids and teens and their residents association absolutely keeps any form of social disturbance under control. They had a few problems in the first couple years and got together and stamped it out.

    I know where you stand on these issues from other posts but your blanket statements just aren't true.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 710 ✭✭✭Blandpebbles


    zanador wrote: »
    Are you from Greystones? Our newest full social housing estate rather than mixed is built about 10-15 years and is full of kids and teens and their residents association absolutely keeps any form of social disturbance under control. They had a few problems in the first couple years and got together and stamped it out.

    I know where you stand on these issues from other posts but your blanket statements just aren't true.

    Social housing is now mixed into estates rather than separate. It remains to be seen whether this will drive inclusion or simply enable hotspots of anti-social behavior in estates.

    Your statements on residents getting social disturbance under control may be accurate for some estates, unfortunately those dealing with problems both in and around Grattan Park, Kindlestown, Kenmare etc.. would disagree. As a lot of this is drugs driven it is effecting all social classes and spilling into other areas. God knows how people buying in the new estate above Kindlestown forest will feel once they have spaced out druggies in their expensive front gardens.

    Before anyone complains of exaggeration, this has happened repeatedly in these areas. And happy to confirm in private if anyone wants verification.

    Of course being born and raised in this area, there are decent people with only a small minority causing problems but its a growing problem.

    You only have to look at the extra premium costs applied to home and car insurance for people living in these areas to see how the statistics impact.

    I saw all the above with the view that Greystones will continue to grow and be an attractive place but will also have growing problems that come with any evolving town. Is the answer to increase the police resources or to seek to resolve the problems at their root? Not for me to answer.


  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 3,740 Mod ✭✭✭✭The Real B-man


    awec wrote: »
    This is reading a bit like the Greystones Open Forum, where the cranks complain about the housing crisis, but then complain when houses are built. Complain about a lack of school places, but then complain when schools are built. They want the housing crisis solved, but only so long as their tiny village gets to stay a tiny village. Villages eventually become towns, which eventually become large towns, that's just how it works.

    In the past decade or so they've developed the M1, and developed the M7. The M11 will surely be widened. They're looking at the buses already. The DART will be looked at at some point too. Realistically, Greystones is going to be continued to be seen as a nice commuter town long into the future, especially as Dublin continues to expand outward, and the commuter belt widens.

    Greystones (and the M11) isn't even the worst commuter route in/out of Dublin for congestion, the M7 is much worse.

    Greystones house prices will rise and fall the same as the rest of Ireland. The idea that Greystones is going to suffer some collapse of prices relative to everywhere else is just bizarre. Greystones isn't it's own little market, isolated from the rest of Ireland.

    https://www.thejournal.ie/house-prices-eircode-2019-4681369-Jun2019/
    Defientely is when it comes to the housing market

    Social housing is now mixed into estates rather than separate. It remains to be seen whether this will drive inclusion or simply enable hotspots of anti-social behavior in estates.

    Your statements on residents getting social disturbance under control may be accurate for some estates, unfortunately those dealing with problems both in and around Grattan Park, Kindlestown, Kenmare etc.. would disagree. As a lot of this is drugs driven it is effecting all social classes and spilling into other areas. God knows how people buying in the new estate above Kindlestown forest will feel once they have spaced out druggies in their expensive front gardens.

    Before anyone complains of exaggeration, this has happened repeatedly in these areas. And happy to confirm in private if anyone wants verification.

    Of course being born and raised in this area, there are decent people with only a small minority causing problems but its a growing problem.

    You only have to look at the extra premium costs applied to home and car insurance for people living in these areas to see how the statistics impact.

    I saw all the above with the view that Greystones will continue to grow and be an attractive place but will also have growing problems that come with any evolving town. Is the answer to increase the police resources or to seek to resolve the problems at their root? Not for me to answer.

    Yes i have seen this also with more affluent people spaced out on the devils dandruff floating around the Nightlife spots in Greystones.

    Social issues are the root cause maybe more should be invested in services in these areas, if it bothers people so much perhaps spend half a million on the other side of town.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,737 ✭✭✭Yer Da sells Avon


    awec wrote: »
    I think a third lane would be feasible as far south as Fassaroe, maybe Greystones.

    I have no idea if this has ever been discussed by the government, and I'm sure it would be many years away, but it's somewhat inevitable.

    Preventing population growth in Dublin's commuter belt is just not possible.

    Large park & ride facilities along the M11 and N11 (paid for by imposing a congestion charge on anyone who chooses to drive past them) would solve more problems than building extra lanes. In fact, I'd replace one of the existing lanes with a heavily enforced bus lane. Reduce the road to one lane for private cars - make using park & ride a complete no-brainer.


  • Administrators Posts: 54,123 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭awec


    Large park & ride facilities along the M11 and N11 (paid for by imposing a congestion charge on anyone who chooses to drive past them) would solve more problems than building extra lanes. In fact, I'd replace one of the existing lanes with a heavily enforced bus lane. Reduce the road to one lane for private cars - make using park & ride a complete no-brainer.

    Park and Ride to where?

    Park and Ride will only work for a certain type of commuter. It might help, but it's certainly not a solution, and wouldn't be something you could do instead of increasing the capacity of the road.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 116 ✭✭jpd


    RosieJoe wrote: »
    I cannot see how the M11 can be widened, especially the Glen of the Downs seeing as it is a nature reserve

    I don't think the Glen of the Downs is the cause of the congestion on the M11 - it's the whole area between the Fasseroe exits and the Kilmacanogue exits. This section is due to be upgraded but undoubtedly that will take many years


  • Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 12,603 Mod ✭✭✭✭2011


    Large park & ride facilities along the M11 and N11 (paid for by imposing a congestion charge on anyone who chooses to drive past them) would solve more problems than building extra lanes.

    I work in Tallaght so like many others that can not take public transport to work driving past park & ride is hardly a “choice”. When I worked in the IFSC I was delighted to be able to get the Dart to work.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,737 ✭✭✭Yer Da sells Avon


    awec wrote: »
    Park and Ride to where?

    Park and Ride will only work for a certain type of commuter. It might help, but it's certainly not a solution, and wouldn't be something you could do instead of increasing the capacity of the road.

    The problem with increasing the capacity of the road is that it just encourages more people to drive, which - in addition to being environmentally terrible - ultimately causes capacity issues and further bottlenecks elsewhere. Providing alternatives and forcing people out of their cars is a far more sustainable solution.
    2011 wrote: »
    I work in Tallaght so like many others that can not take public transport to work driving past park & ride is hardly a “choice”. When I worked in the IFSC I was delighted to be able to get the Dart to work.

    Obviously, park & ride interchanges would need to be served by various bus routes linking up with areas where lots of people work, like Tallaght, Sandyford, the city centre, etc.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 505 ✭✭✭zanador


    Social housing is now mixed into estates rather than separate. It remains to be seen whether this will drive inclusion or simply enable hotspots of anti-social behavior in estates.

    Your statements on residents getting social disturbance under control may be accurate for some estates, unfortunately those dealing with problems both in and around Grattan Park, Kindlestown, Kenmare etc.. would disagree. As a lot of this is drugs driven it is effecting all social classes and spilling into other areas. God knows how people buying in the new estate above Kindlestown forest will feel once they have spaced out druggies in their expensive front gardens.

    Before anyone complains of exaggeration, this has happened repeatedly in these areas. And happy to confirm in private if anyone wants verification.

    Of course being born and raised in this area, there are decent people with only a small minority causing problems but its a growing problem.

    You only have to look at the extra premium costs applied to home and car insurance for people living in these areas to see how the statistics impact.

    I saw all the above with the view that Greystones will continue to grow and be an attractive place but will also have growing problems that come with any evolving town. Is the answer to increase the police resources or to seek to resolve the problems at their root? Not for me to answer.

    I'm in a council house in a mixed estate in greystones- neither I nor my special.needs son between work and school and everything have time to be spaced out druggies but he's young yet so I'll keep ya posted.


  • Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 12,603 Mod ✭✭✭✭2011


    Obviously, park & ride interchanges would need to be served by various bus routes linking up with areas where lots of people work, like Tallaght, Sandyford, the city centre, etc.

    Perhaps a more obvious solution is not to have so many people traveling so far to work.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 267 ✭✭markest


    I think many more people will be working from home/remotely in the next few years. Should cut down much of the traffic.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,814 ✭✭✭The J Stands for Jay


    markest wrote: »
    I think many more people will be working from home/remotely in the next few years. Should cut down much of the traffic.

    I do it from time to time, but the slow eir connection keeps me from doing it more often. I must look into virgin media broadband.


  • Registered Users Posts: 247 ✭✭Cluster


    McGaggs wrote: »
    I do it from time to time, but the slow eir connection keeps me from doing it more often. I must look into virgin media broadband.

    I work from home, need fast internet, virgin is pretty good


  • Administrators Posts: 54,123 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭awec


    Siro is being rolled out in Greystones at the moment too.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,047 ✭✭✭Cerco


    awec wrote: »
    Siro is being rolled out in Greystones at the moment too.

    Any pricing information / introductory offers etc?
    TIA.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 710 ✭✭✭Blandpebbles


    Cerco wrote: »
    Any pricing information / introductory offers etc?
    TIA.

    Vodafone and Sky are partnered with SIRO to deliver 1GB speeds. I think it’s around 55 euro per month.

    Just be aware at present both companies have a 1TB cap per month. You ear through that fast.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 710 ✭✭✭Blandpebbles


    zanador wrote: »
    I'm in a council house in a mixed estate in greystones- neither I nor my special.needs son between work and school and everything have time to be spaced out druggies but he's young yet so I'll keep ya posted.

    See my comment on small minority.


  • Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 12,603 Mod ✭✭✭✭2011


    See my comment on small minority.

    Drug problems are not limited to council estates. Cocaine use in particular is rampant across in the "posh" estates too.
    Now back on topic please.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,108 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    awec wrote: »
    I think a third lane would be feasible as far south as Fassaroe, maybe Greystones.

    I have no idea if this has ever been discussed by the government, and I'm sure it would be many years away, but it's somewhat inevitable.

    Preventing population growth in Dublin's commuter belt is just not possible.

    The problem is that inceeased population of commuters leads to massive congestion snd consequent poor quality of life - kids in creches from 6am to 8pm, driving approx 2 hours each way to work,

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,108 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    Large park & ride facilities along the M11 and N11 (paid for by imposing a congestion charge on anyone who chooses to drive past them) would solve more problems than building extra lanes. In fact, I'd replace one of the existing lanes with a heavily enforced bus lane. Reduce the road to one lane for private cars - make using park & ride a complete no-brainer.

    Creating more local employment rather than shoving thousands up the N11 every day back snd forth is an even better solution again!

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 710 ✭✭✭Blandpebbles


    That assumes businesses can operate with locals only and requires no one from another town or county. So this requires upskilling of locals and only works for technology based businesses.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,108 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    That assumes businesses can operate with locals only and requires no one from another town or county. So this requires upskilling of locals and only works for technology based businesses.

    No it doesn't. A business in Greystones could provide employment for Bray, Kilcoole, Arklow etc and avoids all those people commuting all the way into Dublin. It is about alternatives to all employment focused in Dublin and the ensuing unsustainable commuting, traffic congestion.

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



  • Administrators Posts: 54,123 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭awec


    The problem is that inceeased population of commuters leads to massive congestion snd consequent poor quality of life - kids in creches from 6am to 8pm, driving approx 2 hours each way to work,

    Hyperbole.

    It’s not two hours to Dublin from greystones anyway, my own commute is about 40 mins at the moment, would probably be 90 max if I was going city centre (though I’d just get the dart and it’d be much faster).

    And 6:30-8pm is total nonsense, given crèches usually don’t open til 7/7:30 and close at 6:30/7. Any time I collect my child from crèche after 6, which is rare, she’s one of the last ones left.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 710 ✭✭✭Blandpebbles


    No it doesn't. A business in Greystones could provide employment for Bray, Kilcoole, Arklow etc and avoids all those people commuting all the way into Dublin. It is about alternatives to all employment focused in Dublin and the ensuing unsustainable commuting, traffic congestion.

    Only Bray, Kilcoole and Arklow? not Newcastle, Rathnew? you are just shifting traffic from one city to a nearer town.

    Traffic is already congested in Greystones at times... where do these new offices get built?

    Improvements in public transport and mandatory use of same is the only short term relief. Neither will happen of course.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 710 ✭✭✭Blandpebbles


    awec wrote: »
    Hyperbole.


    And 6:30-8pm is total nonsense, given crèches usually don’t open til 7/7:30 and close at 6:30/7. Any time I collect my child from crèche after 6, which is rare, she’s one of the last ones left.

    Unfortunately, you are a lucky one. I know first hand of families putting kids in at 7 and picking them up at 7.


  • Administrators Posts: 54,123 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭awec


    Only Bray, Kilcoole and Arklow? not Newcastle, Rathnew? you are just shifting traffic from one city to a nearer town.

    Traffic is already congested in Greystones at times... where do these new offices get built?

    Improvements in public transport and mandatory use of same is the only short term relief. Neither will happen of course.

    Greystones would not be sustainable as an employment hub. You'd not be moving traffic around, you'd be making it worse. The town, and surrounding area, is just not designed to have thousands of people commute into it every day.


  • Administrators Posts: 54,123 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭awec


    Unfortunately, you are a lucky one. I know first hand of families putting kids in at 7 and picking them up at 7.

    Which is not 6am -> 8pm.

    This would be an exception rather than the norm. It depends on many factors, of which commute is just one. Some people just work very long hours.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,115 ✭✭✭✭loyatemu


    awec wrote: »
    Greystones would not be sustainable as an employment hub. You'd not be moving traffic around, you'd be making it worse. The town, and surrounding area, is just not designed to have thousands of people commute into it every day.

    what sort of activity would even generate significant employment in the town - they've been beating this drum for 30 years.

    The IDA lands were originally to be a computer chip facility as in Leixlip, that's not going to happen nor is any other sort of high-employment industrial facility (how many work in Procap I wonder?).

    Big companies are unlikely to locate offices this far out of town, datacentres don't employ many people. Small industrial units for local businesses (as in Kilcoole and Newtown) can provide some employment but the vast majority of Greystones residents are going to be commuters whatever happens.


  • Administrators Posts: 54,123 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭awec


    loyatemu wrote: »
    what sort of activity would even generate significant employment in the town - they've been beating this drum for 30 years.

    The IDA lands were originally to be a computer chip facility as in Leixlip, that's not going to happen nor is any other sort of high-employment industrial facility (how many work in Procap I wonder?).

    Big companies are unlikely to locate offices this far out of town, datacentres don't employ many people. Small industrial units for local businesses (as in Kilcoole and Newtown) can provide some employment but the vast majority of Greystones residents are going to be commuters whatever happens.

    Exactly.

    Greystones employment is going to be local businesses - shops, cafes and the likes. That's just the reality of it. It's the definition of a commuter town.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 710 ✭✭✭Blandpebbles


    awec wrote: »
    Exactly.

    Greystones employment is going to be local businesses - shops, cafes and the likes. That's just the reality of it. It's the definition of a commuter town.

    Exactly.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,108 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    awec wrote: »
    Hyperbole.

    It’s not two hours to Dublin from greystones anyway, my own commute is about 40 mins at the moment, would probably be 90 max if I was going city centre (though I’d just get the dart and it’d be much faster).

    And 6:30-8pm is total nonsense, given crèches usually don’t open til 7/7:30 and close at 6:30/7. Any time I collect my child from crèche after 6, which is rare, she’s one of the last ones left.

    We are talking about the future here not the present - thousands and thousands of new houses and new schools create an enormous amount of new traffic

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



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