dublin needs more hotels my name is shane fleming and you heard me right dublin needs more hotels i
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well back in 2019 dublin city council decided to ban or stop granting planning permissions for
hotels within dublin city the decision came about because a number of news articles were published
stating that there was too many hotels in dublin city and not enough apartments there was no
actual data behind these headlines it was just populist viewpoints councillors and tds jumped
all over this as they saw an opportunity to blame hotels for their own failings
in providing houses for dublin city this is becoming a team but every story needs a villain
hotels became the villains and this distracted from the council's own failings i actually met
with dublin city council planners around this time in 2019 at a pre-planning meeting
a pre-planning meeting is basically a meeting you have with the council discuss an idea you
have for a particular site this meeting wasn't and to do at a hotel we weren't proposing a hotel but
before we even got to sit down the planner said to us straight out that they will not be granting
any more permissions for hotels and they will not consider a hotel on this site we weren't looking
for a hotel but the way they kind of forcefully said it to us and said that they're being directed
by councillors not to approve any more hotels and the meeting started with that opening statement
even though it wasn't even about hotels but it was very clear that planners were being heavily
influenced and severely swayed by councillors in terms of how they approached planning
i was quite shocked and a little bit taken back by the forcefulness of the planner in terms of
how they opened the meeting and how much they were being swayed by councillors i thought to myself
what is the point in having a development plan that's voted on by the council every six years
for the city that outlines stuff like zoning design and usage it's a document that's a few
hundred pages long that all developers architects and planners can use as a reference in terms of
what is allowed on certain sites within the city what's the point in having such a detailed plan
if counselors at a whim because of a newspaper article decide to throw everything out the book
and ban a certain type of development in this case hotels it's important to remember that
this decision was made pre-covert and at the time dublin hotel rates per price were at an all-time
high demand was at an all-time high as well and a huge amount of apartments were being used for
airbnb because there wasn't enough hotel rooms the data actually stated that there was nearly 3 000
hotel rooms required within dublin city centre at the time but councillors made the decision to ban
hotels for optics and pr rather than actually good planning in a detailed decision yesterday onboard
panola debunked dublin city council's decision to ban hotels and they stated that dublin in
fact needed more hotels onboard panella overturned dublin city council's decision to ban hotels and
granted permission for a new hotel on cable street i'd love to know what your thoughts are on the
topic so put your comments below let me know if you disagree or agree with me in terms of dublin
needs more hotels i'm of the view that banning one form of development will not increase the
likelihood of another form of development actually happening or make another form of development more
feasible we need more hotels we need more apartments we need more houses we also need
more studios and build to rent and in a lot of cases it's quite difficult to switch from a hotel
development to an apartment development because you have different financial models in place you
have different investors in place and you have different funding in place also in a lot of cases
sites are differently laid out and they're not always suitable for apartment development
there is also the argument that there's a loss of culture within the city due to these developments
actually taking place and a number of nightclubs have been lost because of hotel or build to rent
developments as someone who enjoys a night out and enjoys going to a nightclub i understand the
loss of this culture and i get it it is very disappointing however there is an argument
to be said that some of these uh nightclubs were located on prime city center locations and weren't
making best use of the site if you look at other international cities in terms of where they locate
their nightclubs or super clubs if you look at spain germany or even the u.s a huge amount of the
large clubs are located on the edge of the city in industrial areas or in dockland locations fair
enough you will get some nightclubs within the city center but they'll be much smaller they'll
be located in basements or rooftops but generally speaking the larger nightclubs are located on the
edge of cities away from residential areas and away from central business districts dublin city
council should be thinking about ideas how there is not a loss of culture particularly within the
nightclub scene and to make sure that there is areas designated for that type of use it's also
worth bearing in mind that hotels create jobs they create jobs during construction and they
also create jobs during operation but while those tourists are coming to dublin city there should be
something for them to do and dublin city council needed to realize that some people will come to
dublin city for the night life and therefore there needs to be a protection around nightlife within
dublin city center and there needs to be more focus on it to make sure that culture is not
lost if you have any ideas how dublin can improve its nightlife culture please pop them in the
comments below it would be very helpful i will leave a link for more property related videos
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