What’s the best way to tell area residents about plans for a new asylum shelter nearby?
The government should tell communities directly about plans for new asylum shelters, some activists and politicians say.
Construction inflation has scotched its push to renovate it and reopen as a library, said a council spokesperson.
Issues began well before excavating contractors hit a cable late last year, prompting the placement of the booms now on the canal, ESB emails suggest.
Today, some workers there are treading the same floors as their fathers, grandfathers, and even great-grandfathers.
It’s also expecting to bump up the number of homes to be built on the land at St Michael’s Estate, suggests a response to a councillor’s query.
Freeing up part of the Inchicore Railway Works for housing in seven to 10 years might be possible, though, the internal emails said.
Despite council pledges of “support” for the development of community gardens, there’s still far more demand for them than supply.
“Your ideas are very very good and I will definitely be looking at them more,” said Dublin City Council Senior Engineer Neil O’Donoghue to one local resident.
Recommendations range from relocating the Garda station and improving public lighting, to developing a “historical military quarter”, to bringing in an education and learning campus.
“We’re a scooter club, so if you rock up on a Lambretta, rock up on a Vespa, rock up on a Suzuki, you’re welcome,” says Alfreda O’Brien Kavanagh.
After reviewing thousands of’ suggestions and complaints, the NTA has been meeting with residents’ groups in some areas to show them updated designs.
“We’re highlighting the fact of food waste,” says Cathal O’Donoghue, of Rascals Brewing, “and I think people like that idea.”
Liam O’Meara walks to a curved spot in the stone wall nearby. This is his favourite find from his research. A bench used to be here for mourners, called the seat of melancholia.
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