Waterford North Quays

The whole point of message boards is being able to express an opinion. Just because what I think might not quite fit the positive narrative espoused with regards to the NQ's does not make my comments any less valid. Quite a few posters here would do well to try some cognitive dissonance - i.e. being able too hold two conflicting opinions in your mind at once. Such is the nature of modern life and our social/device based way to interacting with each other that certain people will pile in by default and seek out an echo chamber of similar opinions. For the record I am a proud Waterford person, who has lived, worked & been educated to degree level in Waterford. I have no interest in trolling of stirring the post. My posts only reflect what I see. Life is too short to waste valuable minutes on these boards. Im outta here.

There is a distinct difference between a contract to design, build and manage a facility like the Waterford City Bypass and a contract bounded by time and funding to supply a development like the North Quays. In the former case the builder is essentially constructing something for his own use over the 25 or so years of the contract. In the latter case the builder contracted to build something for the council's use (to sell/lease to Harcourt) at an agreed price within an agreed time schedule. The North Quays, to the best of my knowledge is largely on time and within budget since it started a year or so ago.. Regular media updates have been provided on this.

To suggest that nothing is being done or that work is progressing too slowly fails to understand this difference. Council had x amount to spend and contract is scheduled for delivery on that basis.

the bridge is going to arrive one day from Belgium and that’s it done. They can’t do anymore once the pillars are in place in the river.

There is no option to appeal to ABP so these objections are a waste of time unless the council take into account their issues but they have the final decision. After all the saga in relation to the NQs I cannot see them refusing this project.

An Bord Pleanala! It’s a SDZ zone so council have final decision with no option to appeal to An Bord Pleanala.

Bridge is due to be installed sometime during Q1 2025

https://www.rod.ie/about/news/significant-progress-made-waterford-citys-north-quays-public-infrastructure-project

The bridge structure being fabricated.

objection is so dramatic when you think of what they looked at for decades. All that is wrong now is they don’t want to loose the view of the city. Luckily it’s a SDZ zone so they are limited.

No, I just went on to the Fabricators website. victor buyck steel

Were the residents of those houses offered to be bought out?

The council have uploaded the document outlining what they require further information on.. A lot of what we have discussed here forms part of this especially the hotel height / scale of the tower and it's focal point and indeed the cladding of the apartment blocks.. Seems the council are not happy with the overall proposal and temporary car parks

EDIT:

Harcourt now have 6 months in which to reply to all the points raised (and there is a substantial amount over the 24 pages of the document) .. Failure to reply within the timeline will result in the application considered "Withdrawn"

This is the link to the planning file, just open the documents and sort by scan date.. It's the last document

https://www.eplanning.ie/WaterfordCCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460304/0