The North Lotts and Grand Canal Dock Strategic Development Zone
The controversial Chocolate Park.
Gets the golden ticket.
Via Dublin City Council
Dublin City Council is pleased to announce that planning permission has been granted for the first planning application under the North Lotts and Grand Canal Dock Strategic Development Zone (SDZ). Planning permission was granted for a development by Targeted Investment Opportunities Plc. at No. 76 Sir John Rogerson’s Quay, Dublin 2, for a mixed use scheme.
The development also provides for the new ”Chocolate Park” [based on Roald Dahl’s classic on a site is in the middle of the peninsula between Hanover Quay and Sir John Rogerson’s Quay] public open space.
This decision marks the first major planning application to be granted by Dublin City Council as the Development Agency for Dublin Docklands. Three other significant applications for development in Docklands have also been made to the City Council including the mixed use development at Boland’s Mills….
FIGHT!
(DCC)
Well this is a very clear indication that we’ve gone mad yet again.
20pc of nine-year-olds in Ireland were overweight in 2011 and a further 7pc obese. But yes lets build a huge chocolate park and not any real facilities for kids.
I know right! And sure the chocolate won’t last long in the rain either
yeah your right Drogg the other 80pc should suffer because the parents of the 20pc can’t control their kids eating habits!! it’s this kind of nanny state crap that actually causes the problem people are not made responsible for their own actions I’m over weight from bad eating habits but my kids are not and they play sports because they were encouraged to do so
Whatever they are building costs less than €300,000
Sounds like a very small amount to build Willy Wonka Land.
indeed, the prices of oompa-loompas are through the roof right now.
As I understand it, it’s not really a chocolate park as such, more of a fund raisin thing.
i heard a wispa about that alright.
There’s a car park planned where all the tech millionaires can park their Ferraro Rochers.
More on that Topic toMoro.
It’ll give the area a Boost.
The (nick)name is a hangover from previous plans. It will be a standard city park not a theme park.
NUTS!
there’s a whiff of boris johnson about this.
Well you learn a new thing every day! I just learned the building I work in is part of that zone. Do we get free resident’s entrance tickets to the chocolate park, I wonder?
No. You stole the fizzy lifting drinks.
You lose! Good day Sir!
Working in a building is not the same as being a resident of an area.
veruca darling, they’re working as fast as they can..
There is money to be made from those tech companies, when this is finished, it will put an end to new tech jobs outside Dublin …
I wonder was there any impact study on city centre traffic?
This idea is Willy Bonkas!
Time to grow some snozberries to cash in on this…
Are these the same half-baked morons who wasted hundreds of people’s time on the Wilde Creative Centre?