Good news this week, with the announcement of fifty-three homes to be built on the former Summerhill soccer pitch. Along with the ongoing developments in Caltragh & Ballisodare, it’s heartening to see the housing stock being increased. Of course, when talking about Ballisodare, we can’t ignore the white elephant on the river that has 70 …
(Too) Slow but Sure -New Development at Summerhill College, Sligo Read More »
As we journey on here at Sligo Housing Action Group, pushing for change in Sligo’s’ derelict & vacant housing landscape we encounter the back stories. There are people working in the background trying to make a change. One case is Ronan Gilroy and the Savoy Cinema. The Savoy is not an example of vacant housing …
Do I invite a load of guests to stay in my house if I don’t have enough rooms? No. If I have more people at the table than the amount of food available do I pick and choose who gets fed? No. I divide it out as best I can. It’s called common sense.
The Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth Integration (DCEDIY) headed by Minister Roderic O’Gorman oversee housing refugees and asylum seekers. Whatever options Roderic O’Gorman’s department produces to house our unfortunate migrants/asylum seekers can they include locals in the mix? The name of the department includes the word “Integration”. Like I said, “Integration, Integration, …
When we set up Sligo Housing Action Group back in November 2021, our operative word was action. We were railing against the lack of action in the burgeoning housing shortage here in Ireland and in Sligo. There has been action at government level and on the ground, but there is still paralysis at play in …
Yes! The Irish government has expanded and extended the Croi Conaithe grant to cover many more types of properties but the “catch 22” is, 1) banks will not give mortgages for derelict properties and 2) the grants are only payable after the work is done. This leaves out the very people who would be willing …
If you are the owner of land zoned for residential use you are liable for a yearly tax of 3% of it’s value on 1 February 2024. It’s called a Residential Zoned Land Tax and the idea behind it is to discourage holding onto land that houses can be built on. Good news. If you …
Another of the new measures introduced by the Irish government to kickstart the housing business is the increase in the grants for refurbishing vacant and derelict houses. A grant of up to 30,000 to renovate a vacant house has been increased to 50,000 and the 50,000 grant for derelict houses has been upped to 70,000. …
The development levy is the money paid to the local Authority by a developer for infrastructure costs. Not necessarily the infrastructure costs of their development, mind you. Infrastructure costs include lighting, footpaths, and water. Here in Sligo, one of our unfinished developments is 16 houses in Calry. These houses are just idling on top of …
We set up “Sligo Housing Action Group” in 2021 as a call to action to solve the housing shortage in our lovely, sophisticated and (apparently) rich little country. We contacted various multi- national corporations, (some based here, some not) asking for help. We appealed to them under their “Corporate Social Responsibility” banner. Not one responded. …
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