Dublin City Council has turned down planning permission for 2 buildings in the last couple of days which suggests the council is looking to see out the City Centre Development Plan which runs out in 2011 before they start throwing up the skyscrapers. With no city planning strategy in place, the height of buildings and proposed schemes seem to be dictated by the the height of the O’Connell street Spire.
Meanwhile at sea level a new liffey bridge is due to be constructed by 2011. Picked up in the Irish Independent this morning, the bridge is expected to look like a ’slender, single span, smooth concrete structure’….sexy.