Tag Archives: Phisborough

Over the weekend.

Phibsborough Road, Dublin 7

Phizzfest write:

Vigilante ‘Clampers’ move to highlight a total absence of parking enforcement on the footpaths of Phibsborough Road, Dublin 7.

Cycle and Road Safely groups around the world have sat up and taken notice, but can Dublin City Council? Can An Garda Siochana?

I Bike Dublin (facebook)

Before

Now

Stonevilla, 297 North Circular Road, Phibsboro, Dublin 7

What happened?

William Murphy writes:

As you get older you begin to believe that old buildings and other things from the past have merit and as such should be preserved. Maybe that view of life is not valid and maybe once something has served its purpose it should be replaced with something more appropriate.

Anyway, all that I can say with any certainty is that it depresses me to see the gradual decline of this house and other similar buildings throughout the city.

I last photographed this derelict building in May of this year and northing appears to have happened since then. What I suspected would happen does appear to be happening.

The building has been surrounded by a high fence in such a way that it has become invisible and as a result, over an extended period, people will forget that it ever existed.

At the very best the house will be demolished and replaced by a block of generic apartments any everyone will be surprised because they will not remember what was there.

If you carry out a Google search you will notice that there has been few or no comments relating to Stonevilla since July 2014 but plenty of comment before then

 

The Sad Story of Stonevilla (William Murphy, Flickr)

 

The Scarlet Phibsbernel appeals:,

Further to coverage of shamefully derelict properties in Phibsboro  & and efforts to put people living in them – this (above) has suddenly happened.

It looks like this Common Interest Communities Ltd company are invoking squatters’ rights on these properties (does the Adverse Possession Act’s clock start now, or could it have started 12 years ago?).

A little research on CIC show they are a UK & Miami Company – a recently resigned director in hot water with the FBI, some directorship formerly connected to Ely Properties (Liquidation) here….

Your readership might have an idea as to whether this is a good thing or not?

Anyone?

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From top: Phisboro Tower; Surface parking to be left untouched; new student accomodation next to the shopping centre.

Living in Dublin 7?

Read on.

The Scarlet Phibsbernel writes:

Phibsboro Tower, voted recently as the 2nd ugliest building in Dublin [after the now condemned Hawkins House], is to remain for future generations to enjoy.

The Shopping Centre’s new owner has submitted an ambitious plan involving modern student housing blocks, new civic plazas and enhanced accessibility from the village.

An island of dilapidated Continuity in the plan is Tesco Phibsboro (one of the most ancient and profitable branches in the country) who have apparently blocked a real effort to renew or replace the hated Tower and the masses of surface car parking, using their interestingly named “Tesco Covenant”: A legal veto against anything deemed to threaten their profits, the primacy of the car in Phibsborough, or local improvement.

Does the readership know a single other large city centre development in recent times where surface parking has not been relocated underground? Seems like a real lost opportunity to properly modernise this site.

Anyone?

One of Dublin’s ugliest buildings retained in Phibsborough shopping centre plan (Irish Times)