The Sunday Times

A new town is to be built on Poolbeg peninsula by Dublin city council, turning acres of Dublin Bay wasteland into an integrated community with its own ecology park. The new district will cover a 7km (4.3-mile) stretch of Dublin 4. It will run along South Bank — the planners' new name for part of the peninsula — Sean Moore Road, and the rest of Poolbeg, with 3,000 residential units and more than 100,000 sq ft of offices. The ambitious plan, which will cost €300m to build but will be worth €1.5 billion when complete, is likely to be controversial. Local groups and politicians are already predicting widespread opposition when the blueprint is presented for public consultation this week. Frances Corr of the Bath Avenue and District Residents' Association (BADRA) said: "It's total waffle. This isn't a plan, it's a concept, and the council has run away with itself without taking into account the need for proper infrastructure or environmental repercussions. It is one huge waste of public money."