Orla Hegarty
@orla-hegarty.bsky.social
Architect Asst Professor @UCDDublin @UCDArch FRIAI RIBA ARB opinions my own #Housing #Architecture #Construction #CovidIsAirborne #ClimateAction
Lift the height caps they said, it’ll make housing affordable that said
1 bed starting €3,050/ month
2 bed starting €4,500/ month www.irishtimes.com/culture/art/...
1 bed starting €3,050/ month
2 bed starting €4,500/ month www.irishtimes.com/culture/art/...
Dublin’s new tallest building: This tower of darkness should never have been allowed
College Square was redesigned to give its residential block more impact. Why did An Bord Pleanála make such a misguided decision?
www.irishtimes.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Lift the height caps they said, it’ll make housing affordable that said
1 bed starting €3,050/ month
2 bed starting €4,500/ month www.irishtimes.com/culture/art/...
1 bed starting €3,050/ month
2 bed starting €4,500/ month www.irishtimes.com/culture/art/...
Good tenant / bad tenant
Good president /
Beir bua agus beannacht President Micheal D. Higgins 2011- 2025 🇮🇪 #Speirgorm
Good president /
Beir bua agus beannacht President Micheal D. Higgins 2011- 2025 🇮🇪 #Speirgorm
November 10, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Good tenant / bad tenant
Good president /
Beir bua agus beannacht President Micheal D. Higgins 2011- 2025 🇮🇪 #Speirgorm
Good president /
Beir bua agus beannacht President Micheal D. Higgins 2011- 2025 🇮🇪 #Speirgorm
Misleading headline, this site has a very long backstory #Planning
Brent geese put paid to 580 Dublin apartments
Brent geese put paid to 580 Dublin apartments
An Coimisiún Pleanála refuses planning permission for scheme near St Anne’s Park
www.irishtimes.com
November 10, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Misleading headline, this site has a very long backstory #Planning
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Interesting and accurate data here on current legal challenges (and trends) to permitted developments from @fplogue.bsky.social
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Money Talks, B**lshit Walks
The Money is is talking us into autocracy - we shouldn't let it Money is talking us into autocracy by appropriating the common good to serve the 1%, but the common good isn't promoted by squashing peo...
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November 10, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Interesting and accurate data here on current legal challenges (and trends) to permitted developments from @fplogue.bsky.social
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“Is the plan to crack down on judicial reviews is missing the mark?” @newstalkfm.bsky.social
#Planning #Housing #Speirgorm
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#Planning #Housing #Speirgorm
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Is the plan to crack down on judicial reviews is missing the mark?
Objectors will have to foot six-figure legal bills for successful judicial review cases in a new move being brought to the Cabinet to speed up the supply of infrastructure and housing..
We discuss t...
www.goloudplayer.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:27 PM
“Is the plan to crack down on judicial reviews is missing the mark?” @newstalkfm.bsky.social
#Planning #Housing #Speirgorm
www.goloudplayer.com/episodes/is-...
#Planning #Housing #Speirgorm
www.goloudplayer.com/episodes/is-...
“Objectors will be on hook to pay six-figure legal costs under JR clampdown”
Judicial Review is about ensuring public bodies comply with the law. Upholding democratic laws isn’t “objecting”
Language matters
@conalthomas90.bsky.social @wayneoconnor.bsky.social
www.independent.ie/irish-news/o...
Judicial Review is about ensuring public bodies comply with the law. Upholding democratic laws isn’t “objecting”
Language matters
@conalthomas90.bsky.social @wayneoconnor.bsky.social
www.independent.ie/irish-news/o...
Objectors will be on the hook to pay six-figure legal costs under judicial reviews clampdown
Objectors will have to foot six-figure legal bills for successful judicial review cases in a new move being brought to the Cabinet to speed up the supply of infrastructure and housing.
www.independent.ie
November 9, 2025 at 1:13 PM
“Objectors will be on hook to pay six-figure legal costs under JR clampdown”
Judicial Review is about ensuring public bodies comply with the law. Upholding democratic laws isn’t “objecting”
Language matters
@conalthomas90.bsky.social @wayneoconnor.bsky.social
www.independent.ie/irish-news/o...
Judicial Review is about ensuring public bodies comply with the law. Upholding democratic laws isn’t “objecting”
Language matters
@conalthomas90.bsky.social @wayneoconnor.bsky.social
www.independent.ie/irish-news/o...
“LDA outpaces developers in 2025 Dublin development land sales”
..origins of LDA was NESC plan “Fixing Broken Land & Housing System” to reform speculative, volatile & dysfunction urban land system & build in affordability
& here we are, gamekeeper turned poacher www.businesspost.ie/property/lda...
..origins of LDA was NESC plan “Fixing Broken Land & Housing System” to reform speculative, volatile & dysfunction urban land system & build in affordability
& here we are, gamekeeper turned poacher www.businesspost.ie/property/lda...
LDA outpaces developers in 2025 Dublin development land sales
www.businesspost.ie
November 9, 2025 at 12:05 PM
“LDA outpaces developers in 2025 Dublin development land sales”
..origins of LDA was NESC plan “Fixing Broken Land & Housing System” to reform speculative, volatile & dysfunction urban land system & build in affordability
& here we are, gamekeeper turned poacher www.businesspost.ie/property/lda...
..origins of LDA was NESC plan “Fixing Broken Land & Housing System” to reform speculative, volatile & dysfunction urban land system & build in affordability
& here we are, gamekeeper turned poacher www.businesspost.ie/property/lda...
🚡 “How did the Most Dangerous City in the World” transform into a public transit paradise?
Discover the uplifting story of Medellín’s Metrocable” nextcity.org/urbanist-new...
Discover the uplifting story of Medellín’s Metrocable” nextcity.org/urbanist-new...
Medellín’s Metrocable: From Danger Capital to Urban Mobility Splendor
Sponsored: How did the “Most Dangerous City in the World” transform into a public transit paradise? Discover the uplifting story of Medellín’s Metrocable.
nextcity.org
November 9, 2025 at 11:20 AM
🚡 “How did the Most Dangerous City in the World” transform into a public transit paradise?
Discover the uplifting story of Medellín’s Metrocable” nextcity.org/urbanist-new...
Discover the uplifting story of Medellín’s Metrocable” nextcity.org/urbanist-new...
“calls “to tackle nimbyism” are a threat to open & transparent public engagement & risk driving public participation into the courts or into the shadows
Open participation is important because some can exert more power & influence than others” (May 2019) www.irishtimes.com/opinion/the-...
Open participation is important because some can exert more power & influence than others” (May 2019) www.irishtimes.com/opinion/the-...
The Irish planning system has been dragged backwards
Power has been recentralised, sidelining democracy. Did the tribunals teach us nothing?
www.irishtimes.com
November 9, 2025 at 11:06 AM
“calls “to tackle nimbyism” are a threat to open & transparent public engagement & risk driving public participation into the courts or into the shadows
Open participation is important because some can exert more power & influence than others” (May 2019) www.irishtimes.com/opinion/the-...
Open participation is important because some can exert more power & influence than others” (May 2019) www.irishtimes.com/opinion/the-...
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The Government's new stated aim is to make it so unattractive for lawyers to take good cases against the State that they will stop. Not bad cases. Good ones. Successful ones. This new rule only applies if you *win* your case. Doesn't that worry anyone slightly?
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Objectors will be on the hook to pay six-figure legal costs under judicial reviews clampdown
Objectors will have to foot six-figure legal bills for successful judicial review cases in a new move being brought to the Cabinet to speed up the supply of infrastructure and housing.
m.independent.ie
November 9, 2025 at 10:48 AM
The Government's new stated aim is to make it so unattractive for lawyers to take good cases against the State that they will stop. Not bad cases. Good ones. Successful ones. This new rule only applies if you *win* your case. Doesn't that worry anyone slightly?
m.independent.ie/irish-news/o...
m.independent.ie/irish-news/o...
🇬🇧 “UK construction activity has fallen unexpectedly & at fastest pace for more than five years amid fiscal worries & rumoured tax hikes in November Budget, according to new figures” #DontSayTheRWord www.ireland-live.ie/news/uk/1936...
Construction sector records surprise steep fall in activity ahead of Budget
UK construction activity has fallen unexpectedly and at the fastest pace for more than five years amid fiscal worries and rumoured tax hikes in the November Budget, according to new figures. The lates...
www.ireland-live.ie
November 9, 2025 at 10:44 AM
🇬🇧 “UK construction activity has fallen unexpectedly & at fastest pace for more than five years amid fiscal worries & rumoured tax hikes in November Budget, according to new figures” #DontSayTheRWord www.ireland-live.ie/news/uk/1936...
“local authorities will be financially incentivised to deliver homes, but the govt also looking for more transparency.. plans to introduce single stage approval for social housing projects under €200m & a standard house layout as part of the new approval process” www.thetimes.com/world/irelan...
Ireland’s housing fund will rival first-time home buyers for stock
€100m scheme in housing plan to be unveiled this week as government is under acute pressure to solve homes crisis
www.thetimes.com
November 9, 2025 at 10:40 AM
“local authorities will be financially incentivised to deliver homes, but the govt also looking for more transparency.. plans to introduce single stage approval for social housing projects under €200m & a standard house layout as part of the new approval process” www.thetimes.com/world/irelan...
🏠New govt housing plan this Thursday
“Sources say it will focus on eliminating child & family homelessness. This will involve state competing with first-time buyers to acquire second-hand homes, particularly 1 & 4-bed properties for single people & large families”
www.thetimes.com/world/irelan...
“Sources say it will focus on eliminating child & family homelessness. This will involve state competing with first-time buyers to acquire second-hand homes, particularly 1 & 4-bed properties for single people & large families”
www.thetimes.com/world/irelan...
‘Our last chance’ — inside the drive to fix Ireland’s housing crisis
Pressure is mounting on minister James Browne, from the public and his own party, as he prepares to unveil measures this week
www.thetimes.com
November 9, 2025 at 10:36 AM
🏠New govt housing plan this Thursday
“Sources say it will focus on eliminating child & family homelessness. This will involve state competing with first-time buyers to acquire second-hand homes, particularly 1 & 4-bed properties for single people & large families”
www.thetimes.com/world/irelan...
“Sources say it will focus on eliminating child & family homelessness. This will involve state competing with first-time buyers to acquire second-hand homes, particularly 1 & 4-bed properties for single people & large families”
www.thetimes.com/world/irelan...
Reposted by Orla Hegarty
#smokealarmssavelives
European Smoke Alarm Day is a joint campaign by the European Fire Safety Alliance and the Federation of European Fire Officers to promote greater awareness about smoke alarms.
European Smoke Alarm Day is a joint campaign by the European Fire Safety Alliance and the Federation of European Fire Officers to promote greater awareness about smoke alarms.
November 7, 2025 at 5:55 PM
#smokealarmssavelives
European Smoke Alarm Day is a joint campaign by the European Fire Safety Alliance and the Federation of European Fire Officers to promote greater awareness about smoke alarms.
European Smoke Alarm Day is a joint campaign by the European Fire Safety Alliance and the Federation of European Fire Officers to promote greater awareness about smoke alarms.
“2/3 of us are homeowners & 1/2 have no mortgage, making the gap between owners & renters all the greater: renters have median net wealth of about €5,300 & homeowners €303,000. Despite comprising nearly 30% of households renters own just 3% of Ireland’s wealth” www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
Lorcan Sirr: Irish households are wealthier than ever. You’re not the only one who didn’t notice
There is a wealth illusion, and poorer households are particularly vulnerable to the policies that flow from it
www.irishtimes.com
November 7, 2025 at 5:55 PM
“2/3 of us are homeowners & 1/2 have no mortgage, making the gap between owners & renters all the greater: renters have median net wealth of about €5,300 & homeowners €303,000. Despite comprising nearly 30% of households renters own just 3% of Ireland’s wealth” www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
How did we end up with “estimates” of a market demand for 60,000 homes/ year & “projections” of Ireland’s housing crisis lasting another 15 years?
“Interrogating the arguments for small homes as a solution to the Irish housing crisis
“The paper critically interrogates main justifications & argues role of small homes as a potential solution to Irish housing crisis is overstated”
new research-Dr Mark Jordan www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
“The paper critically interrogates main justifications & argues role of small homes as a potential solution to Irish housing crisis is overstated”
new research-Dr Mark Jordan www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Interrogating the arguments for ‘small homes’ as a solution to the Irish housing crisis
From 2015 onwards, successive Irish governments have promoted the proliferation of smaller homes through a range of measures including reductions in minimum floor size requirements and the removal ...
www.tandfonline.com
November 7, 2025 at 5:42 PM
How did we end up with “estimates” of a market demand for 60,000 homes/ year & “projections” of Ireland’s housing crisis lasting another 15 years?
🏗️ ♻️ We should be counting the true environmental costs of demolition/ replacement in #Planning applications.. including the hundreds of tonnes of #construction material being sent long distances to landfill by road in diesel trucks
The mid-century landmarks of the capital are being reassessed and refurbished instead of demolished
A brutalist London icon gets a glow-up
The mid-century landmarks of the capital are being reassessed and refurbished instead of demolished
www.thetimes.com
November 7, 2025 at 5:39 PM
🏗️ ♻️ We should be counting the true environmental costs of demolition/ replacement in #Planning applications.. including the hundreds of tonnes of #construction material being sent long distances to landfill by road in diesel trucks
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An 88 percent increase in the number of whole homes to rent in Gaeltacht areas on Airbnb – in just six years
'The history of the Gaeltachts as places of radical and forward thinking gets forgotten now when they've become a holiday destination,' say @CnaG
www.ontheditch.com/airbnb-expan...
'The history of the Gaeltachts as places of radical and forward thinking gets forgotten now when they've become a holiday destination,' say @CnaG
www.ontheditch.com/airbnb-expan...
Airbnb Gaeltacht expansionism: 88 percent listings increase
To truly understand Airbnb expansionism in Ireland look to the Gaeltacht.
www.ontheditch.com
November 7, 2025 at 4:42 PM
An 88 percent increase in the number of whole homes to rent in Gaeltacht areas on Airbnb – in just six years
'The history of the Gaeltachts as places of radical and forward thinking gets forgotten now when they've become a holiday destination,' say @CnaG
www.ontheditch.com/airbnb-expan...
'The history of the Gaeltachts as places of radical and forward thinking gets forgotten now when they've become a holiday destination,' say @CnaG
www.ontheditch.com/airbnb-expan...
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Revenue extends deadline for local property tax to next Wednesday as thousands yet to file
www.independent.ie/business/per...
www.independent.ie/business/per...
Revenue extends deadline for local property tax to next Wednesday as thousands yet to file
The deadline for filing a local property tax return has been extended until next Wednesday at the end of the day.
www.independent.ie
November 7, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Revenue extends deadline for local property tax to next Wednesday as thousands yet to file
www.independent.ie/business/per...
www.independent.ie/business/per...
🇬🇧 RIBA Architectural market reports 2025
“market for architects’ services has softened this quarter, as client demand weakens due to economic uncertainty.. longer-term forecasts being revised downward, moderate growth in UK construction is still expected in coming years” www.riba.org/work/insight...
“market for architects’ services has softened this quarter, as client demand weakens due to economic uncertainty.. longer-term forecasts being revised downward, moderate growth in UK construction is still expected in coming years” www.riba.org/work/insight...
Architectural Market Reports 2025 – RIBA Economic Insights
Explore RIBA’s 2025 architectural market reports, covering UK economic trends, construction output, and architectural workload forecasts, with insights for long-term growth.
www.riba.org
November 7, 2025 at 3:51 PM
🇬🇧 RIBA Architectural market reports 2025
“market for architects’ services has softened this quarter, as client demand weakens due to economic uncertainty.. longer-term forecasts being revised downward, moderate growth in UK construction is still expected in coming years” www.riba.org/work/insight...
“market for architects’ services has softened this quarter, as client demand weakens due to economic uncertainty.. longer-term forecasts being revised downward, moderate growth in UK construction is still expected in coming years” www.riba.org/work/insight...
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🗣️ "We are talking ourselves into autocracy here, by taking away people’s rights," says Fred Logue, Solicitor Specialising in Planning & Environmental Law, highlighting the value he sees in the judicial review process.
#TonightVMTV
#TonightVMTV
November 5, 2025 at 11:06 PM
🗣️ "We are talking ourselves into autocracy here, by taking away people’s rights," says Fred Logue, Solicitor Specialising in Planning & Environmental Law, highlighting the value he sees in the judicial review process.
#TonightVMTV
#TonightVMTV
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The ability to improve air quality in your home depends less on personal behaviour and more on who owns the building.
Who controls the air we breathe at home? Awaab’s law and the limits of individual actions
The ability to improve air quality in your home depends less on personal behaviour and more on who owns the building.
tcnv.link
October 24, 2025 at 6:41 PM
The ability to improve air quality in your home depends less on personal behaviour and more on who owns the building.
Reposted by Orla Hegarty
We are looking for teachers willing to test Jasper, a CO2 monitor in their classrooms. Jasper is a prototype and we would like to receive user feedback as soon as possible from several countries. If you are interested, please fill out the form: letsair.org/jasper
November 7, 2025 at 11:28 AM
We are looking for teachers willing to test Jasper, a CO2 monitor in their classrooms. Jasper is a prototype and we would like to receive user feedback as soon as possible from several countries. If you are interested, please fill out the form: letsair.org/jasper
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two schemes. same number of bedrooms.
scheme on left: 80' deep floor plates, double loaded corridors. almost exclusively studio bedrooms. 33% open space.
point access blocks on right: 55% 3BR, 11% 2BR. 44% studio. 50% open space. most dual/corner aspect.
PAB uses 70% FAR of double loaded corridor
scheme on left: 80' deep floor plates, double loaded corridors. almost exclusively studio bedrooms. 33% open space.
point access blocks on right: 55% 3BR, 11% 2BR. 44% studio. 50% open space. most dual/corner aspect.
PAB uses 70% FAR of double loaded corridor
October 3, 2024 at 4:53 PM
two schemes. same number of bedrooms.
scheme on left: 80' deep floor plates, double loaded corridors. almost exclusively studio bedrooms. 33% open space.
point access blocks on right: 55% 3BR, 11% 2BR. 44% studio. 50% open space. most dual/corner aspect.
PAB uses 70% FAR of double loaded corridor
scheme on left: 80' deep floor plates, double loaded corridors. almost exclusively studio bedrooms. 33% open space.
point access blocks on right: 55% 3BR, 11% 2BR. 44% studio. 50% open space. most dual/corner aspect.
PAB uses 70% FAR of double loaded corridor
🏗️ Dear Irish media, when the AIB #Construction PMI comes out next Tuesday & likely shows a drop again in “civil engineering activity”
.. ask if the “infrastructure blockages” might be in public funding, rather than nimbyism. Thanks #Speirgorm #Planning #Housing aib.ie/fxcentre/res...
.. ask if the “infrastructure blockages” might be in public funding, rather than nimbyism. Thanks #Speirgorm #Planning #Housing aib.ie/fxcentre/res...
AIB Ireland PMIs
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November 7, 2025 at 11:39 AM
🏗️ Dear Irish media, when the AIB #Construction PMI comes out next Tuesday & likely shows a drop again in “civil engineering activity”
.. ask if the “infrastructure blockages” might be in public funding, rather than nimbyism. Thanks #Speirgorm #Planning #Housing aib.ie/fxcentre/res...
.. ask if the “infrastructure blockages” might be in public funding, rather than nimbyism. Thanks #Speirgorm #Planning #Housing aib.ie/fxcentre/res...