Presenting your strategy analysis, TU Delft style
I was reading a presentation today by Robert Coco, Chair of Spatial Planning and Strategy at TU Delft, on presentation tools for research in which he linked to a great video prepared by students as part of an urban mobility module within the school. The group took a very visual approach by producing a video instead of...
Westmeath CoCo gives the go ahead for Chinese Trade Centre
You may remember this time last year I wrote a post on the future plans that were afoot for a site close to the town of Athlone – Must Read: Athlone to be developed by the Chinese. Well today I was listening to RTE’s Drivetime while making the dinner, they had a guy on from Athlone...
Grangegorman SDZ Oral Hearing – The last hurdle?
So as the end of the planning procedure element of the redevelopment of St Brendans Hospital or Grangegorman as we have all come to know draws to a close, what do we think of it? Will it be built? Should it be built in absence of the LUAS line which is supposed to serve it directly but...
Census 2011 by the county and Fusion Tables, mapping the data.
Well the preliminary Census 2011 data has been out over a week not and thankfully i have finally figured out how to make a map using googles new fusion tables service. My inspiration came from the Guardians Data Blog. All the materials required a freely available. The CSO provide some shapefiles of the areas which...
‘Ghost’ estates to get €5m to deal with safety issues
SOME 180 unfinished or “ghost” housing estates have been abandoned by their developers, according to new figures submitted by local authorities around the State to the Department of the Environment. The department is to release €5 million to county and city councils in the coming weeks to deal with the most urgent public safety issues...
Detailed Geo-Spatial Mapping of Ireland, it’s here! The AIRO launching planning database
I advise you to go and look at the AIRO website, it is well worth a look and you can see various maps such as the one the left. Just the sort of thing I will be needing for my dissertation. Now to find out if they will give data to students for free or...
Must Read: Athlone to be developed by the Chinese
A friend of mine put me onto this earlier on today. The Chinese are seriously looking at Athlone for a exhibition ground for all the Chinese wares in a bid to break into the European market so investors and buyers do not have to travel across the world to China. It is well worth a...
National Children’s Hospital plans lodged, uniquely designed with children
Welcome to autumn folks, and to my first post from the greatness that is the Bolton Street canteen on such a chilly morning. Great news today, the Planning Application for the new Children’s Hospital has been lodged with an Bord Pleanala. Will leave it up to Frank to explain the unique approach to the hospital design, well...
Planning for new children’s hospital set to be lodged
Paul Cullen writes: A PLANNING application for the new national children’s hospital on the Mater site in central Dublin is to be lodged later this month. The development team behind the new hospital confirmed yesterday that it was pushing forward with the project, despite renewed criticism in recent weeks from retired heart surgeon Maurice Neligan...
Metro, Dart link included in €39bn revised capital plan
Of course lets not forget that DIT Grangegorman is approved under the plan! Well the first phase of Grangegorman at least. Woo as an alumni some day i will be able to visit DIT as a proper college with a campus. Pretty cool. Big pity to see the Navan Rail line and the western rail corridor axed...
Regional development key to growth in all areas of economy, report states
DEVELOPING THE regions will benefit all sectors of the economy and should not be viewed as an isolated or sectoral issue, a Western Development Commission (WDC) report states. The full potential of the State’s less developed regions is not being realised, leading to a “waste of talent and opportunity”, according to the commission study, which...
