If there is a problem at the level crossing there can be traffic paralysis round the area of the schools. DM joins the road to castleknock village out beyond the carpenterstown area / bracken / collegewood so it should be a lot more protected from this. It is an 18 minutes walk from the far entrance to DM to the train station, going the "giant three quarter circle route" ignoring any pedestrian links into the beeches / the school area or even onto the porterstown road itself.Parts of the future development of HP are further away again from the station.
Simple fact about traffic around Dublin 15 is that unless you leave before the school runs / rush hour, you're going to get stuck in traffic regardless. D15 has bottlenecks everywhere. Anyone thinking DM will be better than HP for this or vice versa is in for a bit of a shock. Thankfully I'm on a train-line so any traffic around HP won't matter to me but if you're buying in the area and drive to work, you'll certainly have to factor travel time in for woeful traffic.
Simple- just put carpets down!
Simple fact about traffic around Dublin 15 is that unless you leave before the school runs / rush hour, you're going to get stuck in traffic regardless. D15 has bottlenecks everywhere. Anyone thinking DM will be better than HP for this or vice versa is in for a bit of a shock. Thankfully I'm on a train-line so any traffic around HP won't matter to me but if you're buying in the area and drive to work, you'll certainly have to factor travel time in for woeful traffic.
Hi ChampKind. I am worried about both noise and air pollution tbh. The most westerly positioned houses in both DM and HP will be better in that regard once all houses are built. I personally wouldn't buy in the later phases of HP (along M50).Long time reader of this blog and am considering buying in HP or DM. Does anybody have any thoughts on the proximity of both developments to the m50? Am concerned about the potential noise and air pollution which is my only worry given the quality of the houses in both developments.
Hi ChampKind. I am worried about both noise and air pollution tbh. The most westerly positioned houses in both DM and HP will be better in that regard once all houses are built. I personally wouldn't buy in the later phases of HP (along M50).
I can only speak to my own situation, the first phase of houses in HP don't seem to suffer from noise pollution at all. I've lived in a number of areas around D15 and it's no louder than where I've lived before. It's actually far quieter because of the quality of the build. You can't hear a peep when you're in the house. No idea regarding air pollution but it'll be hard to find similarly priced houses at the same quality of HP/DM around D15 that aren't close to the M50 / other busy roads.
From experience, the build up of traffic getting into Castleknock Village from that direction can be crazy - I can't see it being any better than the traffic around the Carpenter. DM will be closer to the train station than part of HP perhaps - I guess it just feels quite disconnected from the neighbourhood than HP, given that lack of road access
I'm not living in either development but from visiting the current phase of HP numerous times I'd have no concerns re m50 noise. I can't speak in terms of the later phases.
I see the first Diswellstown Manor's are up on Property Price Register. Must be the ones sold early on. 4 bed looks like 480 and 5 bed at 550. Think they've gone up quite dramatically since then? I imagine this means people either have moved in or are moving in. Haven't been around the front of the development recently though.
Not sure about that ?The Swifts were advertised as €490k, same as the Laverys.Actually no38 with larger garden was €520k.Do you think EAs then contacted the people with deposits and said price has dropped by €50k?We'll see soon when the south facing swifts go on register, none on it yet.There is not a €50k premium for south facing - south facing swift in phase one sold for €450k.
Been following this thread over the past few months as I have been interested in all 3 developments, in particular HP. In relation to these developments just wondering if anyone buying in HP / DM / BP had the issue of the developer having fitted the skirting boards before wooden floors having been laid by the purchaser. It is annoying to say the least. Means being left with the options of removing the skirting in order to lay the floor (which might cause a bit of damage to the skirting & surrounds or else laying the floor with the skirting down and having to put beading down to conceal the gaps.
Echo what others have said about the build quality in HP
We hear zero sound in the house, day or night compared to other house we rented where we could hear next door neighbours alarm clock going off in the morning!
We faced the issue with skirting boards and really wanted to take off and put down wooden floor, as figured it would be a cleaner finish.
We decided against it in the end and are delighted we did so- we figured the risk of damaging the wall was too great.
We went with high quality beading and tbh the result is excellent and blends in so well. People have commented to us on how nice floor is and that the white beading looks like it's part of skirting board, so no issue in the end!