Good News Stories for the North Inner City

It is heartening despite the current difficult times to see a number of local and national strategic projects being carried out in the North Inner City.
Work is due to commence on the €650 million Children's Hospital on Eccles Street this year.
The Luas BXD which will run from St Stephen's Green to Broombridge via Grangegorman and linking the two existing Luas lines will go ahead as planned.
The Smithfield Enhancement Project is a €5.2 million Project funded jointly by Dublin City Council and the European Union is almost complete. The first two phases are complete and the work is due to be complete by Summer 2012.
The Lighthouse Cinema on Smithfield is set to reopen and will play host to events for the Jameson Dublin International Film Festival.
Dublin City Council has ambitious plans for the redevelopment of the Fruit and Vegetable Market as a Food Retail Hall along the lines of the English Market in Cork.
Work is progressing apace on the replacement Mental Health Facility for St Brendan's Hospital at Grangegorman. Work commenced in July 2011 and is due to be complete by October 2012.
Plans are proceeding to deliver DIT Campus at Grangegorman the project on a phased basis.
Work on the long awaited Fairview Park and Playground commenced on 12 December and is due to be complete by summer 2012.
Dublin City Council recently secured funding for a Multi User Games Area (MUGA) at Augrhrim Street/Drumalee. which is due to be opened shortly.
Plans are continuing for the redevelopment of O'Devaney Gardens and Dominick Street.
Dublin City Council has agreed to sell a site at Dominick Street (subject to planning permission) for a replacement school for Colaiste Mhuire Primary School currently located at Parnell Square.

Grangegorman SDZ Adopted

Another milestone in the development of the unified campus for the Dublin Institute of Technoloy and new HSE Mental Health and Primary Care facilities on the site of St Brendan's Hospital was achieved recently when Dublin City Council adopted the Grangegorman Stratgic Development Zone.
Residents from the Grangegorman Neighbourhood were in contact with me in relation to their concerns and the impact of the development on their homes. As a result of residents’ submissions, I proposed a number of motions to ensure that residents’ concerns would be taken into consideration.
For further information click on the link to my report on motions .
Dublin City Council placed the revised Planning Scheme on Public Display. Members of the public had until 22 August to lodge observations on the revisions to An Bord Pleanala. An Bord Pleanala will decide shortly on whether to hold an Oral Hearing on th SDZ.
I am aware that residents have serious concerns in relation to the development and hope that these amendments will go some way towards allaying some of those concerns. Residents can be assured of my continued support and commitment to working with them to seek to minimise the impact of the development on their homes.

Submission to Luas BXD Oral Hearing June 2011,

It is proposed that the Luas BXD line will run from St Stephen's Green to Broombridge, via Dawson Street, Parnell Square, Dominck Street to Broadsone and the DIT Campus at Grangegorman; from Broadstone it will follow the old railway cutting through Phibsborough and Cabra on to Broombridge Station.
An Bord Pleanala hss just concluded an Oral Hearing for a Railway Order for the the LUAS BXD.

Joe Costello TD and I made a comprehensive submission to the oral hearing. The full text of our submission can be downloaded here:

Sumbision to An Bord Pleanala Oral Hearing for LUAS BXD

Grangegorman Update

GDA Lodges Planning Scheme to Dublin City Council - Deadline for Submissions is 15th June

GDA Advertise for Employment, Education and Training Co-ordinator - Deadline for application is 27 May 2011

Strategic Development Zone (SDZ) Lodged
The proposal to develop the integrated campus for DIT, mental health and primary healthcare facilities for the HSE and sporting cultural,recreational and public space to serve the community is progressing.

The site has been designated as a Strategic Development Zone (SDZ) which will form the framework for the development of the site.

The Grangegorman Development Agency has now lodged the Draft Planning Scheme based on the Grangegorman Strategic Plan with Dublin City Council. The SDZ Planning Scheme will be on public display at the following locations until 15th June 2011.

The Civic Offices, Wood Quay, Dublin 8
Opening Hours 9am to 5pm, Monday to Friday
Grangegorman Development Agency Office, St. Brendan’s Hospital, Grangegorman Dublin 7.
Opening Hours 9.30am – 4.30pm

Cabra Library
Opening Hours Monday - Thursday: 10.00am – 8.00pm
Friday and Saturday: 10.00am – 5.00pm

Phibsborough Library
Opening Hours Monday and Wednesday: 12.45pm – 4:00pm, 4.45pm – 8.00pm
Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday: 10.00am – 1.00pm, 2.00pm – 5.00pm

Central Library, The Ilac Centre
Opening Hours Monday – Thursday: 10.00am – 8.00pm
Friday and Saturday: 10.00am – 5.00pm


Staff from the GDA and Dublin City Council will be in attendance at the following locations/dates/times so that members of the public can call in and discuss both the content and process involved;

The Civic Offices, Wood Quay, Dublin 8 Tuesday 10th May – 10am – 2pm
Tuesday 17th May – 2:30– 4.30pm
Saturday 21st May – 9.30am-12.30pm
Thursday 2nd June – 6pm – 8pm

Grangegorman Development Agency Office, St. Brendan’s Hospital, Grangegorman Dublin 7
Thursday 5th May – 2.30pm – 4.30pm
Thursday 12th May – 6pm - 8pm
Saturday 28th May – 9.30am – 12.30pm
Tuesday 31st May – 10am - 2pm

Post of Employment, Education and Training Co-ordinator Grangegorman

Applications are invited from existing suitably qualified persons for the post of Coordinator of Employment, Education and Training attached to the Grangegorman Campus Development within the Grangegorman area in Dublin’s north inner city.

Check out the DIT website for further information: