DUBLIN | Port Redevelopment

More here: http://www.dublinport.ie/news/dublin-port-opens-port-centre-city-new-public-realm/

Dublin Port has announced details of a new project to soften its boundaries to the City and provide public realm at Port Centre for the first time in 35 years. This is the largest physical intervention by Dublin Port to reintegrate the Port with the City, as committed to in the company’s Masterplan.

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Marking the future entry point to the port will be an historic ten-ton Stothert & Pitt crane, formerly known as Crane 292 dating from 1968 and in use at the port up until the late 1990s. Reassembled and illuminated at the corner of East Wall Road, the 35 metre high structure will be taller than Port Centre when installed and is intended to become a new landmark at the port-city interface

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More about crane here:

https://afloat.ie/port-news/dublin-...s-new-look-surroundings-of-dublin-port-centre

https://afloat.ie/port-news/dublin-...ort-makes-bright-new-addition-to-city-skyline



Good to see improvements in the area.

This has been proposed before. Just came across a David McWilliams article on it recently. See no point in doing it with the current oppressive planning regime, which is being looked at as we know.

http://www.davidmcwilliams.ie/2017/08/20/move-dublin-port-and-create-new-city-on-the-water

The effects of this could be mind boggling on the city and country. The massive economic brake that is being applied due to the housing crisis is ridiculous for a start. Imagine 100-200,000 being able to live in effectively the city centre, to be able to walk, cycle to work in all of the masses of office space built, being built or planned in the docklands of dublin.

You could offer masses of different housing solutions, from students. Small studios, to family friendly apartments. Long term and short term accomodation. Hotel space which would make dublin far more competitive. Masses of commercial and retail space.

Surely if people could actually afford to live where they want to , instead of miles out, sharing family homes, using crap transport. We could end masses of congestion at the same time and also free up family homes and take massive pressure of the transport system, which at the same time would save a fortune?

I would love to know what that land would be worth with value in a year or two from now with the bullshit height issues sorted out and allowing cheaper units to be developed...

HandyAndrew said:

One way or another, I hope we see it developed in our lifetimes.

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This is Ireland with the Irish legal/"planning" system; and the hyper-democratic political system (when it comes to Nimbyism)

We can't build decent PT systems in the existing city...never mind move the Port!

In 20 years the the Chinese created Shenzhen "with a population of 30,000 in 1980, economic development has meant that by 2008 the city has had 12 million inhabitants" !

Folk here would be horrified at the "Chinese system"...which is what we'd need in order to move the Port.

Not until our economic future manifestly depends on the development of Dublin as a global city will things change - but first all those currently in power must retire and the smug comfy baby boomer electorate must die out.

And with them, hopefully, the Irish Times and the rest of the Irish MSM

In the interim most of your kids will be hopeless renters with little chance of a stable future or property ownership ...while the over 50s middle class enjoy their views of Dublin Bay...whining about the Incinerator and simultaneously demanding the preservation of the ESB Poolbeg chimneys of their youth....:nuts:

Where have I heard this before?



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