Waterford North Quays

Rob Cass has to go down as the biggest spoofer this county has ever seen.led the council and everybody up the garden path.he showed no remorse or apology coming on wlrfm one Friday morning to say the money will be in the councils account that Monday morning and shovels ready to start straight away.knowing full well it was pure lies.

His on twitter these days trying to make himself important telling the government in how to do there job on almost every issue.nobody takes any notice of him on twitter as his credibility is shot to pieces.what a spoofer living in his own world with unicorns

Yes, I heard Rob Cass lie on WLR also. Not making excuses for him, but he is only human after all and he was in a difficult position.

However, you are being harsh on him. Your post ignores the fact that the worst pandemic in over one hundred years hit at the worst possible time for the development. A lot of good things have progressed on the back of the proposed development. These things were going nowhere before hand.

Have to agree wholeheartedly. A spoofer of the highest order who blatantly lied to everyone in his interview on Friday with the plug pulled the following day. No credibility left whatsoever.

completely agree, i think he has great vision for the region, but his approach was very badly executed. i still beleive the council is wrong to sell the land as a part of the project, it opens it up for land and property speculators

Article in media today re council, no sign of commercial director on NQuays (via news and star)

In truth I don’t see this happening for a long time with cost of materials, likely credit crunch on global markets etc - it must be & will be a huge stain on Michael Walsh’s career what are the chances of him bowing out and not a spade turned on NQ!

what could be done in the short term to at least get it up and running?!

Get the bridge and train station in place. Feck the car parks on the south Quays over to the north Quays.

Develop a plaza along the south Quays.

Get Michael street area done and fill city square units and in time when things turn around again then go about the north Quays.

North Quays are fecked now, and looking back on it maybe it was never possible.

Had the government committed to stand alone uni and airport then the north Quays had a chance, but presently there is no one big driver to drive the north Quays now so let's work with that we have, sort the south Quays and finally do something with Michael Street

What the hell is the matter with you! You can’t be coming on here with this kind of positive sentiment.

Seriously, people have short memories alright. Before Michael Walsh, on a scale of 1 to 10 the ambition of Waterford council was about 2. All they were interested in doing was building roads around the city. They did virtually nothing in the city centre.

never understood why there isn't more uproar over that south quays car park, major eye sore and waste of valuable space. that's the first thing they should be looking at changing in Waterford. where do you put the cars? who knows or maybe don't put them anywhere and improve local transport to incentivise people to use it cause they are terrible right now.

everyone here could think of many cool and exciting things to be put in the car park space on south quays that would add something to Waterford.

one of first things you see coming into Waterford are lots of car parks, exciting!

Fair point, move car parks to NQ for anyone entering Waterford from the north.

Increase parking spaces in Bolton St, Millars Marsh, Water Side (maybe multi story).

And a new car park by Browns lane, all this should cover the south, east and west of the city. Job done.

People north of the city part in NQs and the rest park in those mentioned above

'hysterical', thats an odd one!

Damn right, we need to think small and aim low on the North Quays.

It is better and more realistic than the current future white elephant- there’s a good reason why the site is idle and developers are avoiding it like the plague. If it was viable they’d be falling over themselves to get going. They clearly aren’t. And for good reason. Much better do a project in small phases especially one like this. The residential element and possibly hotel are worth proceeding with in the current climate. The rest no

Fair enough on the retail. But the offices should go ahead also. Employers are already going cold on the whole permanent work from home thing.

i wonder are the legal issues of ferrybank is truly the thing causing it to remain largely vacant

I'd be worried about the scale of office space in this development, especially given O'Callaghans record on filling office developments, but they are an active developer in Cork with a history of completing large scale projects in the city.