New "City" for Swords while 40,000 apartments lie vacant in Dublin City
New Plans revealed to develop a new 'city of Swords'
26th May 2008
Fingal County Council has unveiled plans to build a new city of over 120,000 people in Swords. Planners want a third-level university campus, a private hospital and a bus service.
Fingal County Manager David O'Connor said he is not concerned about the impact of present economic difficulties on the development as the plans are projected more than 20 years into the future.
The Manager states that Fingal has a booming population, and is set to benefit from Terminal 2 at Dublin Airport, the proposed new port at Bremore and the Ballymun IKEA development, as well as the proposed new "Metro North" railway line. If built as planned, it will have nine stops in the Fingal area.
Mr O'Connor stated that Swords will merge into Drumcondra in the same way that Dundrum has merged into Ranelagh.
Fingal Co. Council intends to double the region's employment to over 66,000 jobs to ensure that the new city of Swords does not become a commuter town, how this is to be achieved is apparently left unspecified.
The council is planning a (private) hospital development and it is understood it is in talks with two third-level institutions to site a campus near Swords.
Comment:
The proposals are to merge Swords and Drumcronda into a gigantic sprawl, eliminating the remaining green belt and by so doing, further extend the suburbs of Dublin into Meath and Kildare. Plans to merge the suburbs of Lucan and Clondalkin have proved disastrous in planning terms. The proposed new port at Bremore, advertised as relieving the congestion at Dublin Port, will simply accelerate the suburbisation of Co.Meath in particular, with Meath County Council rezoning 240 acres of agricultural land for "industrial and logistics development" in Gormanstown, Co. Meath. The solution for Dublin's planning difficulties is not more of the same, but the recognition that the time has some for a halt to the continued development of the agricultural land of Dublin and Meath counties. 2006 Census figures reveal that 220,000 houses and apartments lie vacant, while auctioneers figures for early show 40,000 apartments vacant in Dublin City. Who will occupy these proposed new houses?
Sources:
http://www.rte.ie/news/2008/0526/metro.html
http://www.droghedaport.ie/cms/publish/article_231.shtml
http://www.irishauction.info/2008/01/21/40000-apartments-vacant-in-dublin-iavi/
http://tara-foundation.org/blog/?p=92
http://dublinopinion.com/2007/08/18/irish-housing-watching-a-fat-man-dance/
26th May 2008
Fingal County Council has unveiled plans to build a new city of over 120,000 people in Swords. Planners want a third-level university campus, a private hospital and a bus service.
Fingal County Manager David O'Connor said he is not concerned about the impact of present economic difficulties on the development as the plans are projected more than 20 years into the future.
The Manager states that Fingal has a booming population, and is set to benefit from Terminal 2 at Dublin Airport, the proposed new port at Bremore and the Ballymun IKEA development, as well as the proposed new "Metro North" railway line. If built as planned, it will have nine stops in the Fingal area.
Mr O'Connor stated that Swords will merge into Drumcondra in the same way that Dundrum has merged into Ranelagh.
Fingal Co. Council intends to double the region's employment to over 66,000 jobs to ensure that the new city of Swords does not become a commuter town, how this is to be achieved is apparently left unspecified.
The council is planning a (private) hospital development and it is understood it is in talks with two third-level institutions to site a campus near Swords.
Comment:
The proposals are to merge Swords and Drumcronda into a gigantic sprawl, eliminating the remaining green belt and by so doing, further extend the suburbs of Dublin into Meath and Kildare. Plans to merge the suburbs of Lucan and Clondalkin have proved disastrous in planning terms. The proposed new port at Bremore, advertised as relieving the congestion at Dublin Port, will simply accelerate the suburbisation of Co.Meath in particular, with Meath County Council rezoning 240 acres of agricultural land for "industrial and logistics development" in Gormanstown, Co. Meath. The solution for Dublin's planning difficulties is not more of the same, but the recognition that the time has some for a halt to the continued development of the agricultural land of Dublin and Meath counties. 2006 Census figures reveal that 220,000 houses and apartments lie vacant, while auctioneers figures for early show 40,000 apartments vacant in Dublin City. Who will occupy these proposed new houses?
Sources:
http://www.rte.ie/news/2008/0526/metro.html
http://www.droghedaport.ie/cms/publish/article_231.shtml
http://www.irishauction.info/2008/01/21/40000-apartments-vacant-in-dublin-iavi/
http://tara-foundation.org/blog/?p=92
http://dublinopinion.com/2007/08/18/irish-housing-watching-a-fat-man-dance/
Labels: Drumcrondra, Dublin, Metro North, New City, Suburbs, Swords
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