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True cost of living in East Meath Utopia
2008-05-14 00:35:00
Are people still coming to East Meath for the bucolic bliss? By that I mean stone age bucolic bliss where we can live out our fantasies as cavemen with none of the modern distractions of an education system or any form of culture. We can head down to to the local shopping centre to hunt ...
Bettystown ?Town Centre?
2008-05-02 21:24:00
From the Drogheda Leader: Bettystown Town Centre has been designed to meet the most demanding shopping living and leisure requirements. … Unlike shopping centres in the greater North Dublin area that experience severe traffic congestion and parking restrictons, Bettystown Town Centre is a haven of tranquility and offers the shopper ease of access to and from this well ...
Thoughts on Laytown school
2008-04-27 11:23:00
The local press is full of comentary on the third annual Laytown school crisis. The reaction is odd to say the least. It seems that a local landowner whose family previously owned the land where the school will be built has retained a key parcel of land and that the department of education included development ...
Third year of School Crisis in Laytown on the Cards
2008-04-15 23:16:00
From the Meath Chronicle, a report that there is a very real prospect of kids being bused to Ratoath from East Meath to attend School. Apparently the decision to grant planning permission to a new school in Laytown is being judicially reviewed in the High Court leading to a delay in construction. THE prospect of students ...
Jobs for the boys
2008-04-02 11:32:00
Remember we commented before about how huge housing developments were justified by the promise of “jobs”. You know, 7000 of them in Stamullen at a “Swedish style garden centre” and other assorted shopping centres. Well someone far smarter than me has analysed the situation brilliantly. He puts it like this: There is no nonsense so gross that ...
The Penny is Finally Beginning to Drop
2008-03-27 21:13:00
The penny is finally beginning to drop that there is something seriously wrong with the planning situation in East Meath. The residents of Mornington Park in Donacarney can’t believe that permission has been granted for 713 houses for 2000 people in area devoid of services, roads and employment. Read the local news reports HERE and ...
From the Archives
2008-03-24 21:04:00
We came across a few clippings from the archives of Septemper 2005. First the monster Bryanstown scheme came to light with a plan for 1300 houses. Read the article in the Irish Times HERE. It’s amazing how the project has increased first to 5000 houses and now to 8000 houses in the space of less than ...
Schools
2008-03-21 00:25:00
As part of a series this week there was an item on the 6 O’Clock News tonight about the ongoing school situation in the country. As the piece points out there are up to 100,000 new children entering the system in the next five years and the Department of Education and Science cannot build schools. ...
Jobs
2008-03-13 14:28:00
I get annoyed when a new shopping centre is PRed with the promise of “jobs”, both in the construction phase and in the operation phase. See here and here. You get muck like this. OK in the 80’s and early nineties any kind of job was welcome and indeed people queued to work in Abrakebabra. But lads ...
Just how bad is it going to get?
2008-02-24 00:14:00
Well, following on from the previous post we decided to analyse the plans and point out what the area population projections are looking like. The relevant documents include the Meath County Development Plan, the so-called Planning Strategy for the Greater Drogheda Area, and the Local Area Plan for the Drogheda Environs (in Meath). It doesn’t look ...
8000 houses in Drogheda Environs! WTF
2008-02-23 23:45:00
An article in last week’s Drogheda Indo unwittingly dropped something of a bombshell. The article itself was some kind of PR piece about the future opening of a half-built shopping centre in Grangerath, the massive sprawling (but well laid out) housing estate on the southern edge of Drogheda. Whether or not this is news is ...
Planning for development 10% size of Drogheda submitted
2008-02-17 10:43:00
The Tribune reports that planning has been submitted by a developer for 1200 houses on the North side of Drogheda. The development would increase the number of houses in Drogheda by 10% in less than six years. It is part of a massive 7000 houses plan for the “Northern Environs” of Drogheda that could add ...
Youtube Version of Prime Time Programme
2008-02-15 20:49:00
Sound and dubbing not great. See post below for links to original source.
Links to Primetime Show on East Meath
2008-02-14 00:10:00
Here they are Part 1 Part 2 Part 3
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
High Rise versus Sprawl
2007-09-15 23:58:00
There’s a big deal happening in Dublin. Developers want to build high density, high rise accommodation in the centre of Dublin in Ballsbridge. This could be a turning point for Ireland. Out here in East Meath we are beginning to see first hand the true horror of low density commuting slums being built into every available ...
5000 Houses: Misleading Headlines in Drogheda Leader
2007-09-14 00:00:00
We are surprised that the Drogheda Leader would print an obviously misleading headline regarding the Drogheda United Development of 5000 houses, equivalent to Balbriggan, on the south side of Drogheda. The headline falsely states that the go-ahead has been given for a stadium and would perhaps deter interested parties from making submissions on the application. Whilst ...
More on Education
2007-09-08 12:42:00
Education is flavour of the week, with articles in all the papers. The INTO has rowed in in the Indo today saying rightly that the Department of Education is at fault. Meanwhile the INTO has attacked what it called the Department of Education’s “just in time, just enough” approach to school places. “Such an approach might suit ...
Well said that Bishop
2007-09-06 23:11:00
Archbishop of Dublin gives a whack of the crozier to the government and department of education in the Irish Times today. Blames incompetent politicians and bureaucrats for the sorry educational fiasco that exists today. Well said. Choice quotes from the article. Archbishop says State to Blame for school crisis Archbishop of Dublin Dr Diarmuid Martin has blamed poor ...
East Meath Retail
2007-09-05 21:39:00
Big splurge in the Drogheda Indo about the retail scene in the area. Massive shopping centres coming on line include Bettystown, Colpe and Donore Industrial Estate. Favourite quote from the developer of Bettystown “town centre”. Developer Pat Neville says he is ‘building a vibrant town centre so that people moving here are buying into a real town ...
Odd coverage of Laytown school opening in the papers
2007-09-04 20:57:00
Strange that the Indo and the Irish Times would have verbatim reports on the Laytown School opening yesterday, even down to the reports of adorable little boys wearing superman outfits. Sounds like someone did a PR job on it. Click here for the Indo and the Irish Times coverage is below. All bets off as school opens ...
Laytown School - Let?s feel happy
2007-09-04 00:41:00
What’s the betting that the local papers will be full of grinning politicians at the “opening” of the new school in Laytown. Thomas Byrne to the forefront “delivering” on his “committment” to the area. Hypocrites. These people should come with a health warning: They are supposed to help us and represent us, not to f**k us up. These ...
Laytown School Saga Grinds On
2007-09-02 11:08:00
On cue, and as predicted, Deputy Thomas Byrne, TD, representative for some of the voters of Meath East is associating himself with the “opening” of the temporary school in Laytown. This is a school with which the new TD has had virtually no involvement for the simple reason that he was not a TD, councillor, ...
School places revelation
2007-08-29 21:52:00
Well according to the Indo today it has suddenly dawned on someone somewhere that there is a school crisis. “100,000 new pupils to spark crisis for schools”, the headline states. What’s with the sparking. In East Meath there are 100’s of kids being educated in prefabs, there hasn’t been a permanent classroom built since 1974 ...
Laytown School Saga: One Year On
2007-08-25 00:33:00
It’s exactly one year since there was major outrage concerning Laytown School. In year there were many false alarms and finally the shell of a “temporary” school is emerging in Laytown. There are also hints a couple more “temporary” schools are taking shape elsewhere. No doubt the 2009 local elections will bring another wave of ...
A council estate in Bettystown
2007-06-23 10:33:00
There was a report in the Drogheda Indo (link not up yet) that residents in Bettystown are worried about Meath County Council plans to build a small council estate near the Maples in Bettystown. This is not a satisfactory situation for any of the parties concerned. Ninety years of experience have taught that standalone council estates ...
Development not taking place fast enough for one local councillor
2007-06-13 23:39:00
Odd sort of crisis in the eyes of Green Councillor Tom Kelly. The local Green seems to think that the lack of sewerage which is limiting the rate of the house building is a crisis. He seems particularly worried about jobs in the building trade. His fellow councillor Jimmy Cudden also agrees in the Meath ...
Public and Private
2007-06-03 10:46:00
We already blogged about how the public realm is being handed over to private interests. We were struck by two contrasting schemes. The first envisages the building of private hospitals on public land, the so called co-location plan. The second was the idea to provide public housing on private lands, contained in the original Part ...
Developers Dream in Bettystown
2007-05-26 11:29:00
We already blogged about Noel Dempsey opening the Bettystown “Town Centre” and his comments on the BBC. There was more coverage in the Drogheda Indo, Irish Indo and the Meath Chronicle this week. The coverage was fairly uniform and one sided in all papers where effectively the developer’s press release was reproduced without comment. It ...
How to vote in Meath East
2007-05-23 21:47:00
So tomorrow is polling day and you are asked to vote for the TDs who will represent Meath East in the next Dail. So what do you do? Do you vote for the government that oversaw the rampant over development of our area over the last 10 years? Do you really believe there is an “alternative ...
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