Fosterstown Developement

PCros

It appears that the objections of Fingal CoCo plus 180 residents from Rivervalley were ignored by APB and they went and approved this.

There will be a total of 995 apartments when all phases are complete with one of them being an 8 storey building - Fingal stated a max of 2-3 storey.

I do believe that a Metro should be up and running before building starts, but hey it's Ireland. It will be interesting to see how the R132 and Airside holds up with this and traffic levels.

https://www.irishtimes.com/business/commercial-property/housing-schemes-in-goatstown-and-swords-approved-despite-objections-1.4479524

https://planning.agileapplications.ie/fingal/application-details/87883

Dizzyblonde

I'm surprised they got permission, there was so much opposition to the development. Plus it's all high density, with no houses as far as I know. There are no plans to build the promised school either.

Elessar

I'm not surprised but very disappointed. This was in complete convention of the Fingal masterplan. This is a huge development. One problem I had with it, after the complete convention of the masterplan, was the parking arrangements. There won't be enough to meet the residential demand and so parking will spill over to all other estates and roads nearby. The forest road and out towards the other side will be choked with traffic at peak times.

And to top it all off, nobody will be able to buy one. I guarantee they will all be block purchased by a REIT and rented out, with a lot of it for council housing. It will completely destroy a lovely quiet, safe area of swords. I'm livid.

Inquitus

Elessar wrote: »

I'm not surprised but very disappointed. This was in complete convention of the Fingal masterplan. This is a huge development. One problem I had with it, after the complete convention of the masterplan, was the parking arrangements. There won't be enough to meet the residential demand and so parking will spill over to all other estates and roads nearby. The forest road and out towards the other side will be choked with traffic at peak times.

And to top it all off, nobody will be able to buy one. I guarantee they will all be block purchased by a REIT and rented out, with a lot of it for council housing. It will completely destroy a lovely quiet, safe area of swords. I'm livid.

Glad its not in my backyard, definitely not the sort of development that should be built in that spot, traffic is already a nightmare and this is only going to cause further issues between Rivervalley, Boraimhe, Main Street and the Bypass.

koutoubia

Thats a shocker.
What has the minister for housing who is the long serving TD got to say about it I wonder?

plodder

PCros wrote: »

It appears that the objections of Fingal CoCo plus 180 residents from Rivervalley were ignored by APB and they went and approved this.

There will be a total of 995 apartments when all phases are complete with one of them being an 8 storey building - Fingal stated a max of 2-3 storey.

I do believe that a Metro should be up and running before building starts, but hey it's Ireland. It will be interesting to see how the R132 and Airside holds up with this and traffic levels.

https://www.irishtimes.com/business/commercial-property/housing-schemes-in-goatstown-and-swords-approved-despite-objections-1.4479524

https://planning.agileapplications.ie/fingal/application-details/87883

I'd agree it makes no sense at all without the Metro.

There's a website for the project at: https://www.fosterstownshd.ie/

The overall plan is on this document:
https://www.fosterstownshd.ie/uploads/eFvzmm4q/P-S-0-4ProposedSitePlan.pdf which suggests some kind of link to the Pinnock Hill roundabout, though it's not clear whether that's part of this application or not.

Chrisam

Sounds very familiar ... Fingal are doing the same messing over in D15. Councillors against, but size of development means the decision is in the hands of ABP. We have 2 large Strategic Housing Developments planned, within 500 metres of each other! Both mainly 1 bed apartments and undoubtably will bring traffic to already congested roads.

T-Maxx

Chrisam wrote: »

Sounds very familiar ... Fingal are doing the same messing over in D15. Councillors against, but size of development means the decision is in the hands of ABP. We have 2 large Strategic Housing Developments planned, within 500 metres of each other! Both mainly 1 bed apartments and undoubtably will bring traffic to already congested roads.

I don't know the details of the two over in D15 which you're referring to but certainly in this case blame can't be apportioned to the councilors as the decision was taken by ABP?