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West Street, Drogheda
2008-02-14 23:51:00 I don’t know about anyone else, but I have very fond memories of West Street in Drogheda . It was always chaotic, always full of people and full of great shops. In the days before the Celtic Tiger it would not be unusual to see cars triple parked on the street and the traffic wardens were ...
Links to Primetime Show on East Meath
2008-02-14 00:10:00 Here they are Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 More About: Politics , Power , Analysis , Houses , Julianstown
East Meath on Primetime
2008-02-12 23:55:00 Laytown featured on Prime Time tonight in a piece focussing on the new residential planning guidelines launced by the Greens yesterday. I’ll get a link and clip when it goes on the web so stay tuned. To be honest my gut feeling in all this is that we are doomed if this is all we have ... More About: Politics , Power , Analysis , Houses , Julianstown
New planning guidelines: Better Late Than Never?
2008-02-11 22:35:00 Well the government finally released draft guidelines to bring Irish urban design standards up to at least 20th century levels. They are detailed and radical and will require some study. Read the press release here. Initial thoughts: Well, it’s a bit late isn’t it? 2/3 of the East Meath Housing has been built in the last decade ... More About: Politics , Power , Analysis , Houses , Planning
Reflections on a Scandanavian Style Garden Centre
2007-11-16 21:58:00 Wouldn’t it be great if we could also have Scandanavian style schools Scandanavian style social welfare Scandanavian style public transport Scandanavian style health care to go with our Scandanavian style garden centre? More About: Garden , Reflections , Style , Centre , Arden
Cowen announces 3000 jobs for Stamullen
2007-11-16 00:26:00 Can you imagine the shock when I opened page four of the Drogheda Indo today. 3080 jobs to be created in Stamullen at the City North Hotel (rising to 7133 in ten years). How can they be so precise? All announced by Brian Cowen, Tanaiste, Minister for Finance and next Taoiseach. A man with credibility ... More About: Politics , Jobs , Transport , Planning , Development
Councillors Personally Liable for Poor Planning?
2007-11-13 00:14:00 Well said in the editorial of the Irish Times (sub reqd), calling for local authority councillors to be made personally liable for poor zoning decisions which give rise to refusals of permission and compensation claims against the local authorities. Will it happen, will if f**k. Local councillors should be made accountable for their actions when they ignore ... More About: Politics , Analysis , Houses , Transport , Planning
Glitch in the Matrix
2007-11-11 09:59:00 There was a glitch in the Matrix up in Monaghan as reported in the Sunday Indo. It appears the swapping of houses for infrastructure model may not work. Monaghan County Council was swapping permission to build appartments and a hotel in return for civic offices, a library and a public square. New offices for the county ... More About: Analysis , Planning , Development , Construction
Zoning Gone Bad
2007-11-11 00:43:00 Strong words reported from the head of An Bord Pleanala regarding crazy zoning by local authorities. He raises the spectre that local authorities may be liable for damages due to improper land zoning decisions. The Chairperson said he noted the exercise by the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government of his powers to intervene ... More About: Politics , Analysis , Transport , Julianstown , Planning
Commuting Statistics for East Meath
2007-11-11 00:23:00 We analysed the commuting statistics contained in the 2006 census for East Meath. For this purpose East Meath includes the part of the St Mary’s DED in Meath and the Julianstown DED. Out of a population of 17,333 11,189 were over five and their commuting data were analysed in the census. (As an aside this ... More About: Politics , Analysis , Transport , Planning , Development
National DigOut Day
2007-11-10 21:32:00 December 7th is National Dig Out Day for Bertie. Hat Tip to Harry McGee More About: Corruption
Excellent Interview
2007-10-26 23:24:00 This is excellent aid to understanding the way the media influences our modern world. More About: Analysis , Interview , Lent , Excellent
Houses in Bettystown
2007-10-26 23:03:00 This is what the estate agent has to say about these houses. Set amongst rolling meadows on the edge of the vibrant and prosperous seaside village of Bettystown , Whitefield Manor is only minutes away from seaside living at its best. A whole range of outdoor activities such as golf, tennis, beach walks and sailing, an abundance ... More About: Houses , Planning , Development , Construction
Stamullen Footpaths
2007-10-26 22:20:00 We did a bit on the plans to double the size of Stamullen and the fact that the National Roads Authority warned Meath County Council not to be messing with their motorway. Well the most bizarre thing about the whole process to date, is not the monumental rezoning and house building, but the fact that ... More About: Planning , Development , Path
Drogheda Environs Planning Process Launched
2007-10-25 14:28:00 Meath County Council advertised for submissions regarding the biggest planning proposal yet in East Meath. They are looking for submissions regarding the making of a Local Area Plan for the Drogheda Environs, a lump of ground stretching from the M1 all the way over to Donacarney. The lands include the red area on the map, ... More About: Politics , Houses , Planning , Development , Meath
Houses for sale almost trebles in a year
2007-10-24 21:42:00 It is now exactly a year since we first started counting the number of houses for sale on Daft.ie in East Meath. When we first started in October 2006 there were only 71 houses for sale in Bettystown, Laytown, Julianstown, Mornington and Donacarney. Today there are 195. Including Drogheda there are now over 700 houses ... More About: For Sale , Analysis , Houses , Sale , Year
The NRA strikes back
2007-10-24 21:20:00 Interesting submission from the NRA regarding plans to build 500-1000 more houses in Stamullen. The development in Stamullen seems to be predicated on one of those dodgy deals involving getting pitches for houses that are all the rage nowadays. This is what the NRA had to say: This submission sets out that the NRA are seriously concerned ... More About: Politics , Power , Analysis , Transport , Planning
Good Neighbourhoods!
2007-10-15 22:46:00 Good article in the Irish edition of the Sunday Times yesterday regarding the regeneration of some horrific local authority states in Limerick City. Some choice quotes from the article: From a former local authority engineer a combination of bad planning, inept management, and wilful official indiference is to blame for creating ghettoes. Limerick’s crime problem…is a hangover ... More About: Politics , Analysis , Houses , Transport , Julianstown
?System Build? Schools
2007-10-14 23:59:00 There was some press coverage of the new model for schools in the North County Dublin and other commuter areas. The solution appears to be so-called “system build” schools, work will begin in May with the schools open in September. I lived in the US for quite some time and “system built homes” were a polite ... More About: Politics , System , Schools , Analysis , Corruption
Planning, Estates, The Sunday Times, Marian Finucane
2007-10-14 23:55:00 Comments on the Marian Finucane show (1:07 in) regarding an article in the Sunday Times (no link). Bottom line they have had to demolish about 1500 houses in several estates in Limerick because they are so disfunctional that this is the only solution to the criminality in these areas. Someone has copped on that a century old ... More About: Politics , Analysis , Houses , Transport , Planning
5000 Houses?Not in South County Dublin
2007-10-08 22:27:00 South County Dublin County Council votes against the construction of 5000 houses. Some comentary here. Interesting that this jumbo development had the kicker that 300 locals would be given cheap houses. Hardly a good way to do sustainable planning and development. When will the lesson be learnt that the acceptance of mega sprawl developments has ... More About: Politics , Analysis , Houses , Transport , Planning
No Thinking about The East Meath Situation
2007-10-08 20:17:00 You know the news about the imposition of the parking fee at Gormanston station typifies the lethargic and blinkered approach to things in our area. Recently it emerged that there would be a charge for the new car park at Gormanston station, a station all but inaccessible except by car. It is not at all clear ... More About: Analysis , Planning , Meath , East , Thinking
Nice Article
2007-10-08 20:08:00 Here. More About: Politics , Article , Transport , Planning , Development
Campaign Against Gormanston Rail Parking Fees Launched
2007-09-25 14:15:00 Some of us commuters are taking part in a form of protest (by refusing to use the car park and parking at the side of the public road outside the station). We?re also organising a letter writing campaign and contacting our local councillors. If you want to take part please contact me at ciaran.debuitlear@gmail.com. More About: Parking , Fees , Campaign , Rail , Commuting
Gormanstown Commuters Gouged by Irish Rail?Who?s Next?
2007-09-24 20:10:00 Heard today that Irish Rail are charging ?5/week or ?2/week to use the new car park at Gormanston railway station. Gouging bastards. Why? you might ask. Well anyone who knows Gormanston railway station knows that the only way to get there is by car…unless you are one of the about 6 people who lives within ... More About: Analysis , Transport , Commuting
Estate Agent Hyteria
2007-09-23 10:58:00 Following on from the previous post, this article appeared in the Sunday Indo. A leading estate agent has confirmed that a house sale was cancelled directly as a result of the buyer viewing the gloomy predictions on last week’s David McWilliams RTE show, The Generation Game. However, Keith Lowe, CEO of estate agents Douglas Newman Good said ... More About: Politics , Power , Agent , Estate , Analysis
Media Battle over Economic Predictions
2007-09-23 10:50:00 Just perusing the Sunday papers and there is an incredible media battle taking place, with the focus on David McWilliams program (also a book) about the economy. The increasingly surreal Sunday Indo is playing interference for the property sector by ridiculing McWilliams, attacking RTE and giving a message that everything is OK as long as ... More About: Media , Analysis , Predictions , Economic , Commuting
East Meath Houses Statistics from Census
More articles from this author:2007-09-21 20:09:00 The remarkable spate of house building in East Meath was recently reveaed in the census results. The census reported on the year of construction for each house surveyed. The graph below details the results. UP until the year 2000, except for a mini-boom in the early 1970’s there were never more than a few hundred ... More About: Politics , Analysis , Houses , Planning , Development 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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