Dempsey to limit land use zoning to five-year periodThe planning laws are likely to be amended to limit the zoning of land for residential or industrial use to the five-year lifespan…Fri Mar 26 1999 - 00:00
Redmond denies he had interest in arcadeThe former Dublin assistant city and county manager, Mr George Redmond, last night denied he had an interest in a gaming arcade…Tue Mar 23 1999 - 00:00
Key figures in tribunal stand to make millions from rezoningTwo of the key figures at the Flood tribunal stand to make several million pounds as a result of Fingal County Council's proposal…Tue Mar 16 1999 - 00:00
16,000 new homes after sewerage plan gets approvalThe Government yesterday announced arrangements to allow nearly 16,000 homes to be built in north Dublin with the use of temporary…Wed Mar 10 1999 - 00:00
Eastern Bypass back in favour for DublinDublin City Council last night formally agreed to reinstate the Eastern Bypass motorway as a major transportation policy objective…Tue Mar 09 1999 - 00:00
Minister backs fresh guidelines proposing suburban housing at much higher densitiesThat icon of Irish suburbs, the three-bedroom semi-detached, is now likely to be succeeded by more complex houses built at much…Thu Mar 04 1999 - 00:00
Herbert Park scheme wins award for urban designThe firm of O'Mahony Pike Architects, which is making quite a splash with its 16-storey apartment tower for Zoe Developments …Wed Mar 03 1999 - 00:00
Dublin not ready to hit new heights at Spencer DockThere can be no doubt that Mr Kevin Roche, the internationally-known, Irish-born architect, and his colleagues in Hamden, Connecticut…Wed Mar 03 1999 - 00:00
Permission sought to develop DocklandsPlanning permission is being sought from Dublin Corporation for the largest urban development ever envisaged in Ireland, a mixed…Wed Mar 03 1999 - 00:00
Millennium Spire given go-ahead by council voteDublin City Council decided last night that O'Connell Street would get its 120 metre Millennium Spire on the site of Nelson Pillar…Tue Mar 02 1999 - 00:00
Conference told of need for incinerators to tackle Dublin's waste problemDUBLIN will need three new landfill sites similar in size to the facility near Kill, Co Kildare, as well as up to two incinerators…Fri Feb 26 1999 - 00:00
Dempsey rejects CIF claims over delays caused by planning systemThe Government will not be panicked into compromising the planning regime by "very unwarranted" criticisms by the Construction…Tue Feb 23 1999 - 00:00
Dublin region water pressure to be reducedHouseholders throughout the Dublin region are expected to suffer quite severe reductions in water pressure over the next four…Sat Feb 20 1999 - 00:00
Friends join in a theatrical farewell to Agnes BernelleAgnes Bernelle is to be commemorated by her musical and theatrical friends in a "memorial gig" later this year and a bursary …Sat Feb 20 1999 - 00:00
Tribunal to check FF record on urban renewal incentivesThe Flood tribunal is now investigating the designation of certain areas for urban renewal tax incentives between 1988 and 1994…Fri Feb 19 1999 - 00:00
Car ownership in Dublin soars but is still below EU averageSoaring car ownership means there are now more cars than households in the Dublin areaFri Feb 19 1999 - 00:00
Government to go ahead with urban renewal while awaiting EU decision on tax incentivesThe Government has decided to proceed with the designation of a "new generation" of urban renewal areas in advance of a final…Thu Feb 18 1999 - 00:00
Latest urban scheme to focus on wider issuesThe process of designating urban renewal areas for lucrative tax incentives used to be crude, secretive and even politically …Thu Feb 18 1999 - 00:00
Safety lapses firm part of Dublin tunnel teamThe Austrian engineering firm convicted in London yesterday of safety failures over a tunnel collapse at Heathrow Airport in …Tue Feb 16 1999 - 00:00
Firm involved in Dublin tunnel fined over collapseAustrian consultants involved in designing the £180 million Dublin Port Tunnel were convicted in London yesterday of safety failures…Tue Feb 16 1999 - 00:00
Corporation was prepared to sell land without advertisingDublin Corporation was prepared to sell its 69-acre landholding at Quarryvale to Mr Tom Gilmartin in 1988 without going to public…Thu Feb 11 1999 - 00:00
Stillorgan shopping centre development plan rejectedPlans to redevelop Ireland's oldest shopping centre at Stillorgan, Co Dublin, have been rejected by An Bord PleanalaTue Jan 26 1999 - 00:00
Dublin's `Ship of Shame' is to be scrapped in MayThe boat that transports Dublin's annual load of 300,000 tonnes of sewage sludge from Ringsend to the Nose of Howth, where it…Tue Jan 26 1999 - 00:00
Sculpture at airport roundabout to be lifted to relieve traffic congestionOne of Dublin's most familiar sculptures, the wing-like granite structure standing on the airport roundabout, will have to be…Thu Jan 14 1999 - 00:00
Dublin Corporation to commission study of capital's skyline for high-rise buildingsDublin Corporation is to commission a major skyline study of the capital to identify locations where high buildings might be …Wed Jan 13 1999 - 00:00
All Luas cost would be metIf I were Charlie McCreevy, there is almost no end to the worthwhile projects on which I would have spent the Exchequer's windfall…Sat Jan 09 1999 - 00:00
Debate on cityscape needs public involvementAnyone over 40 will remember the thrill of seeing Liberty Hall for the first timeTue Jan 05 1999 - 00:00
Ten appeals lodged against Dublin high-rise developmentTen appeals, including one from the Dublin Docklands Development Authority, have been lodged with An Bord Pleanala against Dublin…Tue Dec 29 1998 - 00:00
Group to oppose reversal of planning decisionsFriends of the Irish Environment (FIE) are seeking a change in the planning laws to ensure that rulings by An Bord Pleanala rejecting…Tue Dec 29 1998 - 00:00
Power more centralised now than it ever wasThere was a lot of pomp and circumstance in the Burlington Hotel two weeks ago when hundreds of councillors and local authority…Tue Dec 29 1998 - 00:00
Go-ahead for huge Offaly peat-fired generating stationPlanning permission for Ireland's largest peat-fired power station - a 120-megawatt facility called Europeat-1, near Edenderry…Mon Dec 28 1998 - 00:00
The dubious solution of throwing roads at the car problemSo the eastern by-pass is back on the agenda, and nobody should be in the least bit surprisedTue Dec 22 1998 - 00:00
Minister initiates consultations on Luas for northsideDetailed consultations with interested parties and the public on the options for a Luas light rail line serving the northside…Sat Dec 19 1998 - 00:00
High-rise plan poses problem for docks bodyThe scale of the "ancillary development" now being proposed to support the National Conference Centre is staggering.Thu Dec 17 1998 - 00:00
Conference hall developers plan a £1 bn complexThe developers of the proposed National Conference Centre are to seek planning permission from Dublin Corporation next month …Thu Dec 17 1998 - 00:00
Irish Times must modify plans for site after rulingPlans by The Irish Times Ltd for a new headquarters on the former Irish Press site on Burgh Quay in Dublin will have to be substantially…Wed Dec 16 1998 - 00:00
Planning board decisions fall behind with increase in building activityFewer than two-thirds of An Bord Pleanala's decisions on planning appeals are now being made within the statutory four-month …Tue Dec 15 1998 - 00:00
Dublin Council adopts waste planDublin City Council has decided to adopt a new regional waste management plan which favours incineration as a disposal option…Mon Dec 14 1998 - 00:00
Tough new legislation to protect heritage buildingsAnyone convicted of damaging a building listed for its heritage value would be guilty of a criminal offence and could be fined…Mon Dec 14 1998 - 00:00
Casting vote decides fate of city's last tract of agricultural landThe last remaining tract of agricultural land in Dublin city, wedged between the River Tolka and the Royal Canal at Pelletstown…Tue Dec 08 1998 - 00:00
Bus takes 30% less time than carThe most ambitious and comprehensive scheme to smooth the path for buses and cyclists from the outer suburbs to the centre of…Sat Dec 05 1998 - 00:00
Parking-space tax flagged to ease traffic congestionPeople with car-parking spaces provided by their employers may be required to pay benefit-in-kind (BIK) tax as a result of a …Thu Dec 03 1998 - 00:00
O'Rourke may receive inspector's report on Luas inquiry this monthThe inspector's report on the month-long public inquiry into CIE's plans for a Luas light rail line linking Tallaght and the …Wed Dec 02 1998 - 00:00
Rezoning of Dublin's `last agricultural land' deferredDublin City Council last night deferred a decision to rezone the last remaining tract of agricultural land within the city boundary…Tue Dec 01 1998 - 00:00
Franchise sought for millennium spire souvenirsDublin Corporation has received an "opening offer" of £1 million from a private company which wants to franchise images of the…Tue Dec 01 1998 - 00:00
Councillors urged to resist rezoning last piece of agricultural land in cityDublin city councillors are being strongly urged to resist rezoning the last stretch of agricultural land within the city limits…Mon Nov 30 1998 - 00:00
Site could be cash cow for financially strapped CIECIE, the cash-starved national transport company, has a major vested interest in the outcome of the current row over the National…Fri Nov 27 1998 - 00:00
Illuminated £3m spire to rise from rubble of the old pillarA soaring, stainless steel spike, twice the height of Liberty Hall, will be erected on the former site of Nelson Pillar in O'…Thu Nov 26 1998 - 00:00
Ruskin's `Irish peasant craftsmen'The Oxford Museum, designed by Irish architects Thomas Deane and Benjamin Woodward, seemed to embody so much of the Gothic Revival…Thu Nov 05 1998 - 00:00
Athlete, civic spokesman Noel Carroll dies at 56Mr Noel Carroll, chief executive of Dublin Chamber of Commerce and former spokesman for Dublin Corporation, died suddenly yesterday…Sat Oct 24 1998 - 01:00
