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Dublin Port Opposes Poolbeg Housebuilding
#PortOpposes – The state-owned Dublin Port Company wants Dublin City Council to scrap plans to develop housing on the company’s lands on Poolbeg peninsula to facilitate the future expansion of the port.
The port’s company’s chief executive Eamonn O’Reilly has warned it may have to revisit plans to infill 21 hectares/52 acres of Dublin Bay (rejected in 2010, see Afloat) if the council does not change the city development plan to accommodate the port.
More than a decade ago the council produced plans for regenerating the industrial lands at the southeast end of the city for housing. The plans were advanced in 2009 by the Dublin Docklands Development Authority (DDDA), which said it wanted to develop a new urban quarter on the peninsula, with homes for 10,000 people and office space for 16,000 workers.
For more on the development, The Irish Times has the story here.