Home kitchen facility which supplied Dublin 8 community with focaccia and sourdough to shut after Dublin City Council planning inquiry
Gerry Godley and his wife, Élish Bul-Godley, hand over an order to customers Bryan Patten and children Ruairi and Mae from their Breadman Walking kitchen. Photograph: Alan Betson
Earlier this summer the bakery was told that, on foot of a complaint, it was to undergo a planning inspection. Confirmation of the unauthorised development – essentially selling bread from his home – followed. “I use the term business model very advisedly. This was as much a kind of community, social experiment as much as anything else,” Mr Godley said. “And it was informed by a model we see all across the world; what people refer to as micro-bakeries or community bakeries.”
“I would love to see planners very actively involved in what happens around food in communities,” he said of the broader system, noting in particular the phenomenon of “food swamps”, or high density clusters of fast and unhealthy food outlets.
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