Sir - The Spencer Dock development is proposed for about 50 acres, while the regeneration of Ballymun is proposed for 585 acres at least. The local residents in both cases are very concerned about the long term effects which will be produced as a result.
There are 20,000 people in Ballymun who will be affected. The current density in Ballymun is 26 dwellings per hectare and the density after regeneration will be in excess of 81 per hectare in the latest planning application made by the Ballymun Regeneration Limited (BRL), which is a company fully owned by Dublin Corporation.
It is hard to understand why An Bord Pleanala decided to have an oral hearing on the Spencer Dock development and to have none on three appeals in Ballymun, especially in the light of at least another 35 planning applications to be made in the future.
The media are full of reports on the Dock while there is not a single one on Ballymun. Can someone explain the difference? - Yours, etc.,
Robert Guillemot, Ballymun, Dublin 11