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DOMINIC STREET
UPPER DOMINICK STREET [WAITING FOR THE NEW LUAS TRAM SERVICE TO BEGIN]
Dominick Street is a wide thoroughfare crossing Bolton Street and was in the past the residence of many of the aristocracy. Unfortunately, as was the case with many old Northside streets, the street went into terminal decline after the Act of Union and most of the houses were slums by the time Dublin Corporation social housing [flats] replaced them. William Rowan Hamilton (1805-65), the mathematician and inventor of quaternions was born in No.36, while the writer Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-73) was born at No.45, and Arthur Griffith (1871-1922) was born in No.4. Interesting buildings include the 1858 Saint Saviour's church and Hendrons which was a manufacturing plant but more recently an artist studio complex with some commercial space.
The Dominick Tram Stop will have an island platform arrangement located on the western side of Dominick Street Lower close to the junction with Parnell Street and will serve trams in both directions. This stop will serve the existing residential population, the retail area of Parnell Street including the ILAC Centre and facilitate the proposed regeneration of Dominick Street by Dublin City Council.
UPDATE 29 SEPTEMBER 2017
Statement by Joe Costello
Spokesperson for Urban Regeneration
Labour spokesperson on Urban Regeneration Joe Costello, has said the announcement yesterday by Dublin City Council that the regeneration of the old Dominick Street flats in the heart of the City was stalled due to lack of funding is another blow to local residents who have suffered empty promises for the last 20 years.
Mr Costello said:
"It is incredible that a small community living in local authority flats in the heart of the City could have been promised the sun, moon and stars for two decades and are still left with nothing.
"One of the first actions of the new Government was to re-launch the Dominick Street Flats project in June 2016. The Taoiseach, Minister for Housing and Minister for Finance all swooped on the area with great fanfare and with the good news that work would begin by the autumn of 2016. Nothing happened. Further promises were made in 2017 that development was imminent. Now the local authority is seeking a 50 per cent increase in funding to start the project. It is not clear when the project will now begin but certainly not in 2017.
"The original decision of the local authority to engage in an ill-fated public private partnership on the regeneration of Dominick Street with Bernard McNamara effectively ended ten years ago. What other capital city would leave such a prime residential/educational/retail site in the very heart of the city lying idle and neglected for decades?
"Moreover in December 2017 the new cross-city Luas will be up and running and will drive right down the middle of the site.
"When new homes are so desperately needed it is absolutely essential that work begin immediately on the 72 social housing apartments in the project.
"The Government must now take firm action and ensure that whatever funding is necessary be made available in the forthcoming budget to enable construction to start without further delay."
Dominick Street is a wide thoroughfare crossing Bolton Street and was in the past the residence of many of the aristocracy. Unfortunately, as was the case with many old Northside streets, the street went into terminal decline after the Act of Union and most of the houses were slums by the time Dublin Corporation social housing [flats] replaced them. William Rowan Hamilton (1805-65), the mathematician and inventor of quaternions was born in No.36, while the writer Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-73) was born at No.45, and Arthur Griffith (1871-1922) was born in No.4. Interesting buildings include the 1858 Saint Saviour's church and Hendrons which was a manufacturing plant but more recently an artist studio complex with some commercial space.
The Dominick Tram Stop will have an island platform arrangement located on the western side of Dominick Street Lower close to the junction with Parnell Street and will serve trams in both directions. This stop will serve the existing residential population, the retail area of Parnell Street including the ILAC Centre and facilitate the proposed regeneration of Dominick Street by Dublin City Council.
UPDATE 29 SEPTEMBER 2017
Statement by Joe Costello
Spokesperson for Urban Regeneration
Labour spokesperson on Urban Regeneration Joe Costello, has said the announcement yesterday by Dublin City Council that the regeneration of the old Dominick Street flats in the heart of the City was stalled due to lack of funding is another blow to local residents who have suffered empty promises for the last 20 years.
Mr Costello said:
"It is incredible that a small community living in local authority flats in the heart of the City could have been promised the sun, moon and stars for two decades and are still left with nothing.
"One of the first actions of the new Government was to re-launch the Dominick Street Flats project in June 2016. The Taoiseach, Minister for Housing and Minister for Finance all swooped on the area with great fanfare and with the good news that work would begin by the autumn of 2016. Nothing happened. Further promises were made in 2017 that development was imminent. Now the local authority is seeking a 50 per cent increase in funding to start the project. It is not clear when the project will now begin but certainly not in 2017.
"The original decision of the local authority to engage in an ill-fated public private partnership on the regeneration of Dominick Street with Bernard McNamara effectively ended ten years ago. What other capital city would leave such a prime residential/educational/retail site in the very heart of the city lying idle and neglected for decades?
"Moreover in December 2017 the new cross-city Luas will be up and running and will drive right down the middle of the site.
"When new homes are so desperately needed it is absolutely essential that work begin immediately on the 72 social housing apartments in the project.
"The Government must now take firm action and ensure that whatever funding is necessary be made available in the forthcoming budget to enable construction to start without further delay."
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