Perfect Location for the Childrens hospital.

I’ll echo what Alan said excellent site for the hospital

Well said lads ! , time to get on with it and build it

There are a lot of benefits.

Beside the M50.
It’s on the Navan Rd.
It’s close to Blanchardstown shopping centre.
Close to the Phoenix Park.
Near enough to Heuston station.
Can be accessible from Connolly on commuter rail.
Frequent bus service.
Not too far away from other hospitals.
Good area for staff to travel to and from.
There is accommodation near by.
It’s close to Phoenix Park Station and Ashtown Station.
There’s plenty of restaurants nearby.
Town isn’t too far.
Not that far away from the airport.
Plenty of parking space.
Room for helicopter access.

It’s 5 minutes away from Connolly hospital as well.

It’s the perfect place really.

I have to say that is damn good proposal, possible even the perfect location for it for the public and for staff. It 100% sensible and that unfortunately why it prob won’t get the go ahead cause from what I’ve seen over the years planning in this country is based around who will benefit form it I’m not talking about the public here but people in the government making sure that their developer buddies who own land get a nice bit of dosh for it. I’m not being slanderous as far as I’m aware as that statement is based on the many planning inquiries over the last 30 years I’ve been on this earth.

Everyone knows that mater site is a ridiculous location for this hospital and that this Phoenix park place or tallaght would be way better. This fixation of the mater screams brown envelopes to me. There has to be something dodge going on for them to be trying their best to get it at the mater site even by trying to change laws to overrule an bord pleanala. Serious corruption!!!!

Seems like a no brainer. Let’s hope we can see a return to common sense and this proposal seems hard to beat. It’s practically on the M50 and would be easily accessed from the city centre too. This site was supposed to developed into a casino and hotel before those plans were scrapped. Personally I’d much rather see this proposal occupy the site.

This idea makes perfect sense and therefore probably won’t happen, would love to see it built there though

If it saves the Country €200 Million , it’s simply a no-brainer .
Fantastic location beside a beautiful National Park , where Parents & Friends visiting their loved ones can enjoy the local facilities too without City congestion !

Perfect location and great for parents and children to avail of the beautiful and very safe scenery around them,really hope the board takes this suggestion seriously,can’t understand why they are so hell bent on developing the mater site

It’s a fantastic location, just think of being able to go for a walk in the park with the kids, the zoo is close by, the easy access.. Let’s put that mater idea to bed finally and do what the kids need..this is what they need!!
First time I’ve seen soo much agreement on the journal comments btw. Hope they are taking note!!

It’s not f-ING rocket science.
Children in hospital want visitors
Parents want access to their sick kids

It’s cost ages to get into city centre and find parking and it costs a bomb?

Let’s get rid of mater and templestreet together…. And build a new state of the art hospital on the M50 ring with free parking so that even the culchies can visit their kids

Its a great location but this area is very built up with residential housing, the residents here will complain about the height of the building.

interesting option

I live right beside this for the last 20 years.The former “pheonix park” train station is vastly underused. It was given planning permission around the same time as the rest of the site it was just built a lot quicker, I.e before the arse fell out of the rest of the development so the footfall it was designed for just isn’t present.

I think it’s a decent idea, once they keep it that end of the patch of land it should be ok traffic wise

If it’s truly gong to be the ‘national’ childrens hospital theres only one suggested location that ticks all off the boxes i.e. access for the whole country, no traffic jams for ambulances, co-location, green areas, parking etc and thats Tallaght. Imagine having the adult hospital, maternity hospital (if the coombe transfers as planned) and the new childrens hospital on the one site….

Guess we’ll see if we’ve moved on from the brown envelope days soon enough……

Hold on folks, the main consideration for a hospital should be the best access to services and expertise for patients, not the car parking and access to the M50….

Maybe i’m wrong but i would have thought that a reason to have it co-located would be to have access to staff and expertise from other services, for example a cardiology consult could be had from a wider team in a neighboring ‘adult’ hospital, for instance at the neighboring Mater…. It would be harder to achieve this mutual access to resources on this new site…

This sounds to perfect. Let’s hope someone see this, stops waffling and gets on with it. At this rate it will be my grandchildren rather than my children who will need this place before a sod is turned!

the opw are very against new buildings in the phoenix park, has anyone asked them seen as they run it?!