Mar 28, 2017 | Front Page Feature
The proposed development is for 47 dwellings comprising 33 apartments including three 1-bed, twenty-four 2-bed and six 3-bed apartments. Fourteen houses including one 5-bed 3-storey semi-detached house, three 4-bed 2-storey semi-detached houses, two 4-bed 3-storeys semi-detached houses and eight 5 bed 3-storey terraced houses. Vehicular and pedestrian access to and from Cherrygarth is via the existing access and via a proposed vehicular access on the southern boundary. Two pedestrian accesses are provided. Impact on Cherrygarth. The proposed plan is unsustainable when taken in conjunction with the Oatlands development, located less than 50 meters away which is seeking planning permission...
Mar 19, 2017 | Front Page Feature
People living in Cherrygarth have just woken up to the news of a proposed planning application to Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council for 47 residences on the grounds of Thornhill House in Cherrygarth. The proposal involves a 3 to 4 story apartment block comprising 37 apartments and 14 three storey semi-detached or terraced houses. The is the former home of Hotelier and builder PV Doyle and is currently owned by his son David Doyle. Thornhill House a Georgian house on 1.39 hectares and originally owned by Henry Darley, Brewer of Brewery Road in the mid 1800’s and by the...
Jan 20, 2017 | Front Page Feature
2017! As we head into 2017, I cannot help but think of the World News! Brexit, the new American administration and the situation in the North of Ireland are issues that will in some way affect all of us. Here in Mount Merrion we have our own potential difficulties around Development, the Environment and Traffic. Our MMRA Planning Committee has been trying to influence the type and shape of commercial developments in Mount Merrion to ensure that we maintain and enhance the unique nature of the area. This is being done by working with local public representatives, and making...
Jan 18, 2017 | Front Page Feature
We have just had a report of a possible scam targeting elderly people in Mount Merrion. This concerns a group of men offering to repair roofs which they claim are damaged. The mode of operation is for the men to appear at the doorsteps of the homeowner and offer roofing repair services to the trusting victims. They go to the roof and look around for a few minutes, and then demand from a hundred to thousands of euro for work they supposedly did while on the roof or try to convince the householder that the work needs to be...
Jan 11, 2017 | Front Page Feature
I’m afraid that the illegal disposing of Christmas trees has started again. This has been happening for the past three years. A number of trees were dumped outside the locked up depot on Mount Anville Rd. again this year. You may remember this happened last year and some of them blew onto the road due to the bad weather and created a danger for motorists on that bend. I have recently seen some of the abandoned trees on the road. They cannot be seen until one comes over the hill so they are dangerous. Anyone seeing a person dumping...
Dec 18, 2016 | Front Page Feature, Planning
On Saturday 17th came the good news for Mount Merrion residents that An Bord Pleanala had comprehensively rejected Union Cafe’s plans to redevelop the site. In their decision the Board took into consideration all the major arguments made by individual residents and by Mount Merrion Residents Association. It considered that the proposed development by reason of scale,siting,layout ,bulk and height was not an appropriate design and would not be suitable for the...
