Limerick improvement projects

I suppose the difference there is that the workers in the Raheen factories don't need rental accommodation that promotes a learning environment. They generally go home after a days graft, as opposed to students who would benefit from being near the college library.

You have been pro this development and a number of others. You don't care about the environment or the feelings of the people living in the vicinity of these developments.

You don't give a flying fuk about students and their accommodation needs.

The real irony is that people like me get our way more often than not and the vibrant Limerick described in the Guardian article actually does exist today.

But nice try

20 years a city centre space has been empty and in the middle of a housing crisis.

We also have a traffic crisis that we are going to apparently solve with more suburbs.

The site has been derelict for 20 years.

You see it all over Dublin and the world really and it works well with the mix & match of high and low rise ,I really think the site being on a main should mean nothing low volume should be built 2 story house there would be a crime and waste ,its perfect in every aspect for students or others as its stones throw from the college ,the creasent for shopping ,right on bus corridors and stops etc

Libraries are more than just for taking books out of. If that sounds ridiculous to you then pop in to your local one and have a look around.

A ~1km walk home in the dark after an evening of studying or group coursework might also result in them being attacked, which isn't great for physical or mental health. Having accommodation on campus negates this

This isn't Dublin though, and in the interest of relevance, when you say "the rest of the world" do you have any examples in the county of Limerick

As I was saying, the height of buildings is why locals object to the building, not the high court

In this case the high court found errors were made by ABP, which as you correctly say they then conceded the case on that basis. I'm not sure what those errors were but ABP clearly agreed that they were wrong to grant the permission in the first place.

Plenty of ghost estates were created in the past because of our lax planning laws and I, for one, am glad to see we are much more stringent with them these days

"A ~1km walk home in the dark after an evening of studying or group coursework might also result in them being attacked"

Oh this is easily the biggest heap of sht I have ever heard on this thread.🤣

(And don't bother with the fake outrage of me laughing at people being attacked)

If you can't see the link between the 2 then you have serious problems haha!

I knew was going to get a this is not Dublin as a response o\ only gave it as an example ..

Jesus 😂 they could be attached on campus as well🙄 May as well just keep them locked in their bedrooms altogether

You might hear laughing, but it's actually aimed at you. Comparing factory workers and their needs to students and theirs doesn't make you look very smart

So you have no example of how it works well in Limerick. That;s the thing about demographics, what works well in one part of the world, doesn't necessarily work well in another

They could be attacked on campus, that's right. It's well known that college campuses are safer places than city streets but let's ignore that fact, yes

Why does having a local example matter ?We have to start at it somewhere and any example i could try and give will be met with "that is not the same" I already outlined why I thought it was a perfect location for a high density build ,student accom or not ...

UHL is on the same road with similar background and must be 5-6 story's and sits in well enough. next to 2 story buildings. red tech must be 4 story's at least on the same road accross from 2 storey building

can you link to that and show me where it says that ?

The site was fully operational in 2003. You had Esso, John Moloney Honda and Four Star Pizza operating out of there. I think there was a video rental place too. Academy?

Let me preface this comment with a reminder that I am a local to the SCR area and I am against the scale of this development but not the nature of the development or use.

Now that's out of the way there is some amount of rubbish being spouted on here at the moment about this project.

1. The proposed main entrance to the building is 465m away from the main gate of Mary I on the SCR, there are student accomodation buildings on the UL campus which are 4 or 5 times the distance from the education blocks. The distance from the college is not an issue and the idea that it would be a poor location for student acommodation ia laughable.

2. We're discussing an established, safe, well lit, high traffic area, student safety is not a concern at present and won't be a concern if this is ever built.

3. This is a good site for a medium density accomodation block, and a fantastic site for a student block. It has good transport links, and is well serviced by amenities. The empty brownfield sites at the bottom of Courtbrack Avenue would be an even better location as other large accomodation buildings are already located there, but that's beside the point I'm trying to make here.

My personal opinion is that 7 stories on the Punches Cross corner as depicted by the rendering is too high, given the next nearest large building is 2 storeys, but we've already been around the block many times on that argument and we've all stuck to our opinions and not budged so no point in discussing that again.

At this point, it's being going on so long that I'd just rather see the bloody thing built as is, rather than continue to look at the hoarding and the junkies climbing the gate to sleep on the site each night.

Oh wait.

We can all find single examples.

"A group of students was allegedly subjected to a daylight assault by a group of assailants at University of Galway"

And FFS @Cookiemunster is the only person on here who is ever able to post the actual facts and not just opinions as he has done once again in this case.