Bartra Capital planning to buiold five-storey, 208-room co-living rental housing block
Rooms measuring 16.5 square metres will include en-suite bathrooms and kitchens, at a rental cost of €1, 300 per month., gathered outside a former school house on Eblana Avenue on Wednesday to oppose the development, saying it will not meet local demands for affordable housing. An online petition opposing it gathered 800 signatures in one day.
The development has been approved under the Strategic Housing Development scheme, where applications for large-scale housing developments are accelerated for decision directly to An Bord Pleanála. Criticising the use of the Strategic Housing Development Scheme, Mr Boyd Barrett said the Government is encouraging “the building of housing that nobody can afford”, adding that the co-living units are “modern tenements”.
Co-living apartment blocks, which are increasingly common in London and other major cities, are essentially modern bed-sits, where people have private bedrooms and bathroom, but share common spaces, such as kitchens. Saying such buildings should be “completely outlawed”, the Dún Laoghaire TD said the local community is suffering from rising rents because of its location and popularity.
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