YOU, ME AND WE KNOW AN EXAMPLE OF URBAN EXPRESSION – CONSTITUTION HILL
This wall, a number of buildings and a Maxol garage should have been demolished by the time that I took this photograph [22 November 2014]. Today, 20 February 2021, the Broadstone Gate development has not yet been fully completed having been delayed because of ongoing Covid-19 restrictions.
In December 2013 The proposed €5 million Broadstone Gate development on constitution hill came to a halt following the refusal of a petrol station owner to vacate the site
The plan involved the demolition of a small number of buildings, including the Maxol garage on Constitution Hill. However, Maxol withdrew their consent for the demolition. In response Dublin City Council said it would redraw the plans, building the new entrance plaza around the garage. As the garage has since been demolished you can draw your own conclusions.
BROADSTONE GATE NOT YET OPERATIONAL – NEW ENTRANCE TO TU CAMPUS AT GRANGEGORMAN
The was supposed to be operational by the end of last month but all building work has been suspended because of health emergency restrictions.
The Broadstone Gate will provide a key access to the Grangegorman site once complete and is being developed as part of the Luas Cross City works. It will be finished as a public plaza and the access will provide a major linkage between Grangegorman and Dublin city. The plaza is situated off Constitution Hill on the site of the Old Royal Canal at the former Great Western Railway Station commonly known as Broadstone, and will mark a prominent entrance to the Grangegorman urban quarter.
The Broadstone site, which borders Grangegorman on its east side, was subject to a Part VIII planning process in 2014 in order to facilitate the site development and gate access.
Under the Grangegorman Masterplan, the primary urban path through Grangegorman – St Brendan’s Way will link with the Broadstone Gate which when completed will reach as far as Prussia Street. The link with Broadstone can also be seen as an extension to the 18th century historic spine of Dublin City which covered Dublin Castle across Grattan Bridge, along Capel Street/Bolton Street, Henrietta Street and King’s Inn.
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