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| From: |
ejb |
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14 July 2010 |
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| Nama developer Gannon gets local area plan approval for Swords project |
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Well it looks like Fingal are about to flex their expertise in town planning once again.
From the today's paper:
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/commercialproperty/2010/0714/1224274649384.html
Fingal Co Council has given the go-ahead for development of 3,400 homes in a new neighbourhood planned for 270 acres between Swords and Ashbourne, writes JACK FAGAN
THE NORTH county Dublin town of Swords is to get a substantial new neighbourhood following a decision by Fingal County Council to approve a local area plan for 270 acres along the link road between Swords and Ashbourne.
The site is 4km (2.4 miles) from Swords and will eventually have a population of about 10,000.
Members of Fingal County Council decided by 17 votes to six to accept the local area plan for the Oldtown/Mooretown area, which will open the way for the development of 3,400 family homes, a local shopping centre, a regional park and other infrastructural facilities.
The enclave will also have three or four primary schools, as well as a secondary school. The decision to proceed with the development has been welcomed by Gannon Developments, which has owned most of the land for 12 to 14 years.
Architects Conroy Crowe Kelly are to lodge a planning application in October or November for the first phase of the housing scheme.
Approval of the local area plan will allow Gannon to develop 2,800 family homes as well as a 2,500sq m (26,910sq ft) shopping complex.
Bank loans given to Gannon Developments, including those for the Swords lands, were recently transferred to Nama. Contacted yesterday, Gerry Gannon, the head of the company, said the adoption of the local area plan for its landholdings in Swords was ?a good decision for me and a good decision for Nama?.
Pamela Gill of Conroy Crowe Kelly said the master plan for the new neighbourhood would be based on the key principles of good design, high quality public facilities, ease of movement and diversity.
Oldtown and Mooretown would be distinct character areas focused on natural features such as the archaeological parks or on one of two new neighbourhood centres. One of the hubs will include the schools, a community hall and shopping facilities.
Gannon is planning to provide a wide mix of house sizes to accommodate people at all stages of their lives, with the emphasis on the provision of two, three and four-bedroom family-oriented homes.
The development company is handing over 75 acres for a regional park planned for the northwest corner of Oldtown. There are also plans to enhance Rathbeale Archaeological Park, which was rediscovered in 2003 when ancient skeletal remains were uncovered.
Extensive archaeological work and historical evidence has confirmed that a circular complex was laid out after the 7th century and remained in use for a considerable time. The site is known locally as ?the bone field?.
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| From: |
Harry Byrne |
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16 July 2010 |
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"Gannon is planning to provide a wide mix of house sizes to accommodate people at all stages of their lives, with the emphasis on the provision of two, three and four-bedroom family-oriented homes"
What planet are they on? |
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| From: |
cfh |
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16 July 2010 |
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| Nama developer Gannon gets local area plan approval for Swords project |
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| I like the bit about the 3 or 4 primary schools and the secondary school. The cynic in me tells me that they will be the last things to be built and that whatever residents live there will have to agitate for them to be built. |
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| From: |
Xanthomonas |
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16 July 2010 |
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| Nama developer Gannon gets local area plan approval for Swords project |
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| If the Vatican can make a decision to list women's ordination in the same category as pedophiles and rapists, and if Willie O?Dea can deliberately and knowingly give an untrue version of accounts in an affidavit and get away with it, and if Humpback whales can be seen off Howth Head, then anything is possible. |
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| From: |
Some Forum Intellectual |
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16 July 2010 |
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| Nama developer Gannon gets local area plan approval for Swords project |
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This sounds crazy. How many unsold houses and apartments are there on the north side of Dublin? That development will put more pressure on the Donabate roundabout/M1 junction which is barely coping as it is.
Is that what they're building opposite Turvey avenue on the R132? I know they're widening the road, but they're also building something between the R132 and M1. |
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| From: |
wail |
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16 July 2010 |
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| Nama developer Gannon gets local area plan approval for Swords project |
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| Nonsense obviously. He has no intention of building this. It's a ploy in the NAMA game - developers try to claim they have viable plans to pay back the loans they have out to keep a desperate clutch on their empires. Expect him to be declared bankrupt. |
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| From: |
ejb |
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16 July 2010 |
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| Nama developer Gannon gets local area plan approval for Swords project |
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Family homes me god dam hole. They'll be match boxes with no facilities because land will be too expensive.
Fingal are a disgrace. The planners there signed off on every single ridiculous development during the boom and were answerable to no-one.
Disgrace.
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| From: |
Derek |
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18 July 2010 |
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| Nama developer Gannon gets local area plan approval for Swords project |
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Seen as Mr Gannon (remember, this man was reported as being one of the Anglo golden circle)has been NAMAed, how is he going to raise the funding to start this project? What bank will lend to someone in this situation? Or is this development the start of something by one or more local authorities where developers will be allowed to develop just to get stuff sold, raise a few quid, and keep loans / property out of NAMA?
On that score, one of Mick Kennedy's recent email missives parroted that ?500mil was being provided by the European investment bank to fund Metro North. What the piece failed to tell us that is that the full cost of MN would be well over ?1bn, and Fingal CoCo has to raise a considerable proportion of the balance by itself (i.e. through development levies). Unless the property market recovers by the end of next week, me thinks Fingal will remain broke, and they can kiss goodbye to Metro North for the forseeable future.
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| From: |
Derek |
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18 July 2010 |
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| Nama developer Gannon gets local area plan approval for Swords project |
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Some light reading relevent to the above:
http://www.gavinsblog.com/2009/02/25/gerry-gannon/
http://www.gavinsblog.com/2009/07/28/gerry-gannons-assets/
Interestingly, Cllr's Devitt and Kennedy get a mention in some of this.... |
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| From: |
ejb |
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19 July 2010 |
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Here's a good letter about the matter...
Madam, ? I read in your Commercial Property section (July 14th) that Fingal County Council had given the go-ahead for the development of 3,400 homes in a new neighbourhood planned for 270 acres between Swords and Ashbourne, to be built by Gannon Developments.
The very next day you report that the Government has just passed a Bill which will reduce 40,000 hectares of land zoned for residential development across the country, to 12,000 hectares over the next six years (Home News, July 15th). The Minister of State for Planning Ciar￡n Cuffe is quoted as saying that over-zoning and bad planning had played a large role in creating the so-called property bubble, adding: ?This legislation aims to ensure that these practices become a thing of the past.?
Why then is Fingal County Council working in the opposite direction by making even more land available for development? North Dublin ? like many other parts of the country ? is already over-populated with thousands of unsold or unfinished housing units, many of them built by Gannon Developments or other associated companies.
Are Fingal Council and Mr Gannon operating in a different universe to the rest of us? ? Yours, etc,
FINTAN CASSIDY,
Annadale Crescent, Dublin 9.
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