The migration towards purchasing new is a by-product of the Central Bank rules if you ask me. If FTB have to scramble to get 60k for a 3 bed house @ 400k then they'll do that and have nothing left over for any meaningful repairs/renovations.
Look at the mortgage market, many of the banks have recognised that this is where the pain points are for FTB and have modified their offerings as a result. Basically giving people an advance of a loan of 2%.
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No eir lines anywhere. Nightmare so have broadband and phone through Virgin. Up to 360mb and rooms have ports built into walls.
Eir and sky said it could be 6 months for a line in a new house!
Traffic is grand. School is busy around 8.30 - 9 but I've already left by then. That's the only traffic I know of but it isn't bad... I do drive but am from the area and traffic isn't that bad compared to other areas within 10km of city centre I think. I notice a lot of the kids in st Patrick's and ccc walk. I guess it's quicker - plus the schools are in such a residential area.
Interesting reading the request for an amendment to the planning permission resubmitted on 29 Jan (FW16A/0011).
Wonder where the 450 residental units in total will fit in - the area boxed off in the current brochure surely can't be to scale if they refer to 450 houses, retail units and a creche?
It appears from the development plans that the apartments won't be directly opposite houses. One think which turned me off BP was the lack of a front garden and looking directly onto apartment blocks. The houses currently facing onto the green at HP and the cul de sacs etc give it a much much neighbour feel IMO than the feel of BP
Yes we got virgin in. We were with Sky before so was new contract but the house is pre wired for Virgin so all it too was an engineer call out and it was on and actually clocking 265mbs wired and 70mbs wi Fi. I'd recommend a better router than the standard they give you though as it doesn't get the wi Fi throughout the house....
Seen a lot of this mention of 450 units in HP. No agent, builder etc... mention more than 225. Never understood it myself as can only find approval for 225 too on Fingal. Original application was 450 but permission only for 225. Not sure where a couple of ppl are getting their info? Woodbrook phase 2 was to be 2 eight story blocks of apartments, that's what Castlethorn applied for, however they are building 75 houses. The original application doesn't always stand...
Hamilton Pk will be 225 units only. Original application was for 450 under a number of phases etc. Permission has only been granted for 225 residential units including 54 apartments overlooking Mulberry at rear of estate. Even if you count the units on the plans you can see it's nowhere near 450.
HAMILTON - 225 units only (175 houses, approx 50 apartments) this is on 10 hectares
No they had been planned in the original application but this was revised to the 119 or so houses that you can see in the brochure.So does this mean there will be apartments in Diswellstown or not, confused by the last few posts.
So does this mean there will be apartments in Diswellstown or not, confused by the last few posts.
Yes - there will. 96 of them - just there will be separate access.
It's just a small change to plans but they are there, 156 units.
Similar to the issue over amount of houses in HP this is as a result of change to planning applications. It is now just a separate planning application. There will be a wall/hedge between them but same more or less.
Can't see 450 HP houses in the plans for HP no matter how I count them in the plans...
It's the site containing the original house. It's a separate application.So does this mean there will be apartments in Diswellstown or not, confused by the last few posts.
Don't think there will be. As ASG12345 pointed out - that application that had 96 apartments in it, was amended by application FW13A/0075 which became Diswellstown Manor and has approval for 119 residential units. There may be some apartments in the converted house, but that's about it
I think it's very good that we are all exchanging info about what is going on at these two developments and cross referencing what the EAs are saying. I think it is quite possible that there are over 400 units at HP. Phase 1 has 225 houses and phase two has two apartment blocks and and an unspecified number of houses. The two apartment blocks are over by the back entrance to the school and may have retail elements at ground level. This is what the EA at HP told me about 2weeks ago although she was vague about this.I have seen 2014 planning drawings from Fingal that show two blocks of either apartments or offices. They are not from the website but at the planning file at their offices at Blanch. The online documents are quite incomplete and are not taken down when superceded by new planning permissions. I can see from these drawings that DM is a much lower density development that HP and there are no apartments there except possibly within diswellstown house. The plans from DM match the plans for the site shown today on the DM website. I think DM as an estate looks a lot nicer than HP but the 4 beds in HP are a lot more spacious upstairs compared to the 4beds in DM.There appears to be uncertainty about the number of units in HP hence concerns about eventual traffic when the estate is fully completed in ?2018. Not all those roughly 2000 plus school kids walk to school and there are only about 15 houses or less occupied at present so can't judge traffic at the moment.
From the gate of DM to the HP roundabout via the porterstown road and up the laneway at the beeches is 7 mins. Once the pedestrian ways are complete DM will be a shorter walk than most of HP given they will be much further away as the site is much larger.Even 400 units is no impact on the road network. It would take s far bigger development to make a big impact. There are apartment complexes of 00s around and they haven't either, college wood is huge, houses and apartments and no traffic issue caused.
Only when an Ongar or Hansfield type place are built of 000s units is traffic really affected.
HP has a bus stop at the entrance and train is 10/15 min walk. I think less reliance on cars needed in HP as DM is so far in places from public transport. From the gate to the train is prob a 30 min walk?
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