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Green Party Launch Election Manifesto #GE2020

Green Party Launch Election Manifesto #GE2020

There is now international consensus that we have just a decade to make the changes necessary to halt the warming of our planet and save our natural world. We need to rethink how we live, how we travel, how we work and how

Ossian January 25, 2020January 27, 2020 Latest News No Comments Read more

Childcare Crisis in Dún Laoghaire

Childcare Crisis in Dún Laoghaire

Dún Laoghaire has the highest childcare costs in Ireland – and there’s also a huge shortage of places. I’m campaigning for childcare that is accessible to all. 

Ossian January 24, 2020January 27, 2020 Latest News No Comments Read more

Is ‘shared living’ good for Dún Laoghaire?

Is ‘shared living’ good for Dún Laoghaire?

A new ‘shared-living’ development has been proposed for central Dún Laoghaire town, which is radically different from the way we have built housing in recent years. Is it a good thing and will it get planning permission? The site is

Ossian May 6, 2019May 7, 2019 Latest News 9 Comments Read more

Designs published for Cherrywood town centre

Designs published for Cherrywood town centre

Designs for the centre of the new town planned for Cherrywood in Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown were published today. The developer, Hines,  has applied for planning permission for 1,269 apartments and ½ million square feet of retail space. Another 7,500 homes are

Ossian September 27, 2017September 27, 2017 Latest News 8 Comments Read more

New plans for the Europa site in Blackrock

New plans for the Europa site in Blackrock

A developer has applied  for planning permission for nine houses and forty-two apartments on a corner site in Blackrock. For more than ten years now, the former Mazda Europa garage in Blackrock village has been falling into dereliction. This is

Ossian February 27, 2017February 27, 2017 Latest News 10 Comments Read more

Why Bulloch Harbour redevelopment was refused permission

Why Bulloch Harbour redevelopment was refused permission

Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown Council has refused permission for the development of Bulloch Harbour sought by developers in December. It has also refused the separate planning application to demolish the warehouses. Nearly 500 submission were made by locals in opposition to these two

Ossian February 6, 2017February 20, 2017 Latest News 8 Comments Read more

New plans for Bulloch Harbour

New plans for Bulloch Harbour

Plans have been lodged with Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council to redevelop the former Western Marine premises at Bulloch Harbour into housing, a café and shops. What is planned? Six shop units and a café at ground level Six large apartments

Ossian December 11, 2016December 14, 2016 Latest News 45 Comments Read more

How can we design Cherrywood to be a healthy, vibrant district?

How can we design Cherrywood to be a healthy, vibrant district?

A new town is being designed at Cherrywood to provide housing for 20,000 people and workplaces for more than 10,000 employees, all clustered around the Luas line. Many of the homes are due to be completed by 2019 and in a

Ossian January 3, 2016January 11, 2016 Latest News 22 Comments Read more

Dún Laoghaire Shopping Centre revamp

Dún Laoghaire Shopping Centre revamp

The owners of Dún Laoghaire Shopping Centre applied just before Christmas for permission to redesign the outside of their building and re-arrange the shop-floors inside. This is in preparation for the arrival of two large new retailers to the centre.

Ossian January 1, 2016January 11, 2016 Latest News 29 Comments Read more

Latest changes proposed for bus routes around Dún Laoghaire

Latest changes proposed for bus routes around Dún Laoghaire

The National Transport Authority has revised its planned changes for bus services around Dún Laoghaire.  This follows a public consultation during which concerns were raised about areas such as Killiney that would be left without a service. I wrote about this

Ossian November 3, 2015November 3, 2015 Latest News 3 Comments Read more

Nursing Home and Lidl approved for Sallynoggin

Nursing Home and Lidl approved for Sallynoggin

An Bord Pleanála  has reversed a planning decision by Dun Laoghaire County Council and has granted permission for a five-storey nursing home, a Lidl supermarket and a medical centre at Sallynoggin roundabout on the former  ‘Deer Hunter’ pub site. This

Ossian October 9, 2015 Latest News 3 Comments Read more

End of the Cruise Ship dream for Dún Laoghaire?

End of the Cruise Ship dream for Dún Laoghaire?

Now that Dublin Port has won final permission for a double cruise ship dock, there is no possibility that Dún Laoghaire Harbour Company’s cruise plans are viable. It sounded like such a great idea. Cruise ships would dock in Dún

Ossian August 11, 2015November 24, 2015 Latest News 11 Comments Read more

How to get your water tested for lead in Dublin

How to get your water tested for lead in Dublin

Irish Water is writing to thousands of people living in Dublin this week to warn them that their water is supplied through lead pipes. Irish Water says that most people receiving these letters have a level of lead in their

Ossian August 6, 2015August 7, 2015 Latest News 5 Comments Read more

Eircode Routing Keys – all 139 of them

Eircode Routing Keys – all 139 of them

The first three characters of your new post code (your Eircode) is called the routing key. This is an area code that identifies which part of the country you live in. Eircode has not published the list of routing keys

Ossian July 14, 2015November 15, 2017 Latest News 40 Comments Read more

Dublin Bus proposes route changes for Dún Laoghaire, Sallynoggin and Loughlinstown

Dublin Bus wants to adjust routes and timetables for their bus services in Dun Laoghaire, Sallynoggin and Loughlinstown. The changes would affect routes: 7, 7b, 7d, 45a, 63 and 59. Routes 8 and 111 would be cancelled. The proposed changes are

Ossian July 7, 2015August 31, 2015 Latest News 28 Comments Read more

ALDI finally approved for Sallynoggin – Lidl now unlikely

ALDI finally approved for Sallynoggin – Lidl now unlikely

(since the post was written, Lidl has been refused planning permission and has appealed that decision. The appeal is due to be decided by September) An Bórd Pleanála has today approved ALDI’s plan to convert the White and Delahunty Motors on

Ossian April 21, 2015July 16, 2015 Uncategorized 5 Comments Read more

Nursing Home proposed for the Deerhunter site on Sallynoggin Roundabout

The Deerhunter site is still empty after many years and there is a great desire locally to redevelop it in a positive way – for example with housing and open space. A new proposal has been lodged with Dun Laoghaire

Ossian February 4, 2015March 4, 2015 Latest News 2 Comments Read more

Chief Executive’s Draft Dún Laoghaire Development Plan 2016-2022

Chief Executive’s Draft Dún Laoghaire Development Plan 2016-2022

By law, every Irish local authority has to produce a six-year plan. These plans set the local strategic policies for governing the area covering everything from housing and transport to parks and recreation. The development plan is important as when

Ossian December 30, 2014February 6, 2015 Latest News No Comments Read more

Dún Laoghaire Baths – what’s going on?

***25/November/2017 See update at the end of this post Dún Laoghaire Baths have been derelict and neglected for many years. Despite several proposals for this site, it remains locked up and untouched.  You would be forgiven for thinking that the council

Ossian December 1, 2014November 26, 2017 Latest News No Comments Read more

Eircode Database – launch date and technical spec

Eircode Database – launch date and technical spec

  Eircode launched on 13th July, 2015 Ireland’s new postcode system is named Eircode. You can look up an Eircode here: https://finder.eircode.ie The system is being developed by Capita, a British company that won a contract from the state for this

Ossian October 29, 2014December 4, 2017 Latest News 3 Comments Read more
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