Planning

[Brendan Byrne]

TD’s and Councillors have told me they are helpless due to legislation" (Aidan wrote)
they are now, we know from bitter experience having watched our councillors of all parties (except Mick Murphy who was later shafted by residents at the polling booth ).voted for the destruction of Tallaght Village. We are now going cap in hand to members of the same parties (people) to help us defeat this new threat coming from Lidl. We are a bit naive to think that anything has changed and that we can overturn this decision. From a legal point of view Lidl and SDCC have ticked all the right boxes and I would put money on the same result from An Bord Pleanala.

Yes there will be rightful indignation from our political representatives and promises to help, I personally do not want this help especially from those who blatantly voted for this LAP in the full knowledge of that which would flow from this local area plan.
My bet is and watch out for it, next in line is the VEC buildings sandwiched between Lidls and Priors Gate, another slave to the 3 storied building line and another rush from our political reps to show us their indignation and their offers of help.

Just look at the present situation in the country, we are bankrupt, going down the tubes, slow strangulation, loosing our young to
emigration etc. ,the Lidl problem is small in a maelstrom of politicians making but a clear indication  of what is to come. We have lost our right to govern ourselves and are now ruled from the European mainland. We as residents have lost our right to have a say in local planning, we are excluded from decision making. Observers will say that we hand these rights to our politicians to act on our behalf, that is democracy. Lidle tell us that once the election is over the system takes over and decisions affecting the environment in which we live is handed to our politicians for better or for worst ,in planning case disastrous.

The Councillors of all the main parties and their  County Managers are still involved in bad planning with wide spread one off housing permissions in  rural areas. Given the state of the economy and property sector this isn’t any great surprise.  Nor is the pattern of permissions, with 43.6% of all housing unit permissions in Q4 2010 for one-off houses.  For 2010 as a whole, one-off houses accounted for 48.1% of house unit permissions (5,582 units).  In 2007, one-off houses were 29.5% of all house unit permissions (18,555 of 62,828 units).  One-off permissions in 2010 are thus down -69.9% from 2007 levels.  In terms of what was actually built in 2010, one-off housing constituted 63.2% of all houses built - 7,914 of 12,514 .This is great for tourism especially in counties relying on this market?

Nothing has changed except it gets worse and that is the greatest worry, I can offer no wise words to lessen the plight of this country , planning when left to politicians and county managers has been disastrous and continues especially in rural areas,small towns and in our part of the world Main Road.


Brendan.

[Aidan Thomas]

Brendan

 

Agree. Edited your email on to my site. While Lidl discussions going on-did not want to undermine Mick Duff.

 

A

 

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[kathleen ryan]

TD's/ Councillors helpless due to legislation, I have just had a conversation with local angry residents earlier on about this,I told them that it is not that

 

TD's/Councillors won't do anything, it's a case of they can't do anything about our problems because they are just like us tied to legislation and the other problem

 

is as I have been saying for years the E.U. directives to this country,Oxigen Environmental Ltd. for instance has been granted planning permission for an

 

additional building for pre-treatment  of waste in Ballymount because of an E.U. directive, New Environment Minister Phil Hogan gave the green light recently to

 

count the Toads of Ireland at a cost of thousands because of a E.U. directive yet they let the French eat these frogs/toads without a whisper,if a new bus-stop

 

was needed in Tallaght village it would be refused if it was not an E.U. directive, so maybe we need a direct line to the E.U. to get permission or to sort our local

 

as well as our national problems and forget about local/national politicians, this has always been the case anyway it is not just since the banks crashed or the

 

bailouts, we were always answerable to the E.U. and that's why we never got anywhere, yes the planners and county manager  followed these directive but put

 

the lot in Tallaght,the E.U. are more responsible to what happened in Ireland but the planners and county managers throughout Ireland will continue to build more

 

of the same as the last development plan and the one before that and the one before that again, so no lessons have not been learned because no-one from the

 

E.U. came to Tallaght to look at the damage done from their directives.

 

Kathleen.

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