Councillor Dermot Lacey

planning

Post Archive


  • Local government as enablers of social & affordable housing

    Beech Hill Terrace is a relatively short road here in Donnybrook. There were ten terraced houses built along one side and about five on the other side when Dublin Corporation developed the Estate in the 1950’s. However, if you stand in the middle of the road now, you will see five new Dublin City Council…

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  • Eglinton Rd: Avestus plan for apartment block

    Dermot was interviewed in a video by The Irish Times about the proposed development at Eglinton Road. See the video and article on The Irish Times website: Donnybrook residents oppose Avestus plan for €80m apartment block   Labour city councillor Dermot Lacey pointed out that Avestus wanted to demolish six houses and build up to seven storeys on a…

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  • Eoghan Murphy removes another planning right from local Councillors.

    Statement by Cllr Dermot Lacey Wednesday 14 March, 2018 Eoghan Murphy removes another planning right from local Councillors. Chair of the Labour Councillors group, Dermot Lacey of Dublin City Council has criticised the withdrawal by the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government Eoghan Murphy, of long established planning rights from Councillors at their municipal…

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  • Prime Time: Effective Planning Systems

    I appeared on Prime Time on RTÉ1 last week to discuss proposals for new planning processes.  You can see the discussion with Minister Simon Coveney here.

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  • Letter to the Editor: Department of Housing, Planning & Local Government

    The Editor, Letters Page, The Irish Times.     Dear Editor,   Your editorial (22nd August) suggests that the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government would be better off concentrating on density rather than height issues. I disagree. The best thing that Department could do would be to stop interfering. It has done far…

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  • Gordon Street development – support for residents of South Lotts

    26th April 2016     The Secretary, An Bord Pleanala, Marlborough Street, Dublin 1.     Re: Appeal against the decision by Dublin City Council to grant planning permission to Oranswell Properties Ltd. for demolition of existing storage and other incidental buildings and the construction of a residential development with a total of 10 residential…

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  • Sandymount Village Design Statement

    Dublin City Council has launched the Sandymount Village Design Statement.  This is a great opportunity for the local community to get involved in creating a vision for the future of the village.  I highly recommend reading a copy of the report, which can be downloaded from the Dublin City Council website here (pdf). If you…

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  • O’Cuiv Anti-Urban Populism a Nonsense and Hypocritical

    Statement by Councillor Dermot Lacey, Labour Party, Dublin City Council 29th August 2011 “The comments from the Fianna Fail Deputy Leader, Eamon O’Cuiv, regarding the new Septic Tank levy reflects a deep anti urban bias – in particular an Anti Dublin bias and coming from a Politician whose term in office was sustained by the…

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  • Draft Dublin City Development Plan 2011-2017

    The proposed amendments to the Draft Dublin City Development Plan 2011 – 2017 will be on public  display from 18th August 2010 to 15 September 2010 at the following locations in the South East Area during normal office opening hours: Civic Offices, Wood Quay, Dublin 8 Ringsend/Pembroke Area Office, Portview House, Thorncastle Street, Ringsend, Dublin…

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  • South East Area Committee

    Regular readers might be interested in the motions I put down at today’s South East Area Committee of Dublin City Council.  The motions, and the City Manager’s responses, are below: Item 1 Motion from Councillor Dermot Lacey This Committee requests the Manager to arrange a clean up and tidy up of the old graveyard adjacent…

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