Boost for housing plans on Dublin’s Northside: Government must now fund Greater Dublin drainage project so homes can be built

• Sherlock welcomes planning approval of the Greater Dublin Drainage Project which has been stuck in the planning process since 2018.
• Project is crucial to delivery of housing in Dublin such as the 6000 planned for the Ballyboggan industrial estate.
• Any further delay would have serious consequences for future generations and would constrain future housing development in the city.

 

Deputy Sherlock said:

“I very much welcome that planning permission has been granted to this crucial piece of infrastructure that is critical to the delivery of housing in Dublin. The approval of the Greater Dublin Drainage Project is long overdue. The Greater Dublin Drainage Project and Clonshaugh Wastewater Treatment Plant has been in planning since 2018.

“Uisce Éireann have made it clear that that a lack of water and sewage capacity could threaten the development of future housing on the Northside. That is why the Clonshaugh treatment plant is crucial.

“It is not sustainable for our whole city to be piping wastewater through our city centre to Ringsend which is now nearing capacity. This new wastewater treatment plant would serve more than 500,000 people in Dublin’s northside. Taking this pressure off from Ringsend is important to ensuring the development of housing.

“Without action from Government, Dublin is in clear trouble. This project is vital to ensuring that housing can be developed across the city and to support the increase in population in Dublin over recent years.

“It is now absolutely critical that the Government steps up to ensure that the funding is made available so that this project can commence tendering and construction as soon as possible.”