Ballymun

Recent Development Timeline

2005

• Poppintree Neighbourhood Centre opens
• Ceannt Tower demolished
• McDermott Tower demolished by implosion
• CAFTA’s Parenting Programme starts
• New Leisure Centre completed
• Changes in retail planning guidelines facilitate IKEA coming to Ballymun
• Emerald Housing wins national award for its design and specification
• Coultry Neighbourhood Centre opens
• McDonagh Tower demolished by implosion
• Phase 3 housing starts on site
• Fingal County Council adopts the North Ballymun (M50 Lands) Local Area Plan
• 575 new private homes completed in Ballymun
• 905 new homes completed under the BRL Housing Programme

2006

• HSE District Headquarters and Primary Health Care Centre opens in the Civic Centre
• Coultry Park opens
• Coultry Forum Office opens
• Rediscovery Centre Furniture Recycling Project launched
• Ballymun Plaza Hotel opens for business
• Ballymun wins three National Tidy Towns Awards
• Railway Procurement Agency officially announce Metro for Ballymun
• The Horizons Building, a community-based addiction services centre, opens
• CAFTA’s Children’s Regeneration Programme starts
• Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) funded community composting project begins
• Ballymun gains Fairtrade Town status – the first in Dublin
• 684 new private homes completed in Ballymun
• 1,064 new homes completed under the BRL Housing Programme

2007

• Balcurris Park opens
• Safer Ballymun, a Community Safety Strategy, launched
• Aisling After-School Project Evaluation Report launched
• Ballymun wins two Tidy Towns Awards,
• Temporary Ballymun Plaza opens
• axis launches ‘SPARK’, a major three-year arts in education programme, which aims to engage with over 500 children annually
• Connolly Tower demolished
• Planning permission granted for IKEA
• Work commences on Ballymun United Football Club’s new facilities
• Shangan Neighbourhood Centre opens
• Railway Procurement Agency announces that the Metro will run underground through Ballymun
• One flat block demolished
• 887 new private homes completed in Ballymun
• 1,305 new homes completed under the BRL Housing Programme
• 157 children complete CAFTA’s Children’s Regeneration Programme
• 800 residents complete CAFTA’s Housing Transition Programme
• Coultry Green opens

2008

• Clarke Tower demolished
• DCU in the Community opens in Shangan Neighbourhood Centre
• IKEA starts construction
• Garda Station completed
• Shangan Forum Office opens
• M50 Lands Masterplan launched
• Social Welfare Office completed
• Sillogue Neighbourhood Centre opens
• Innovative, environmental and sustainable housing projects launched as part of Phase 4 housing
• Sillogue/Sandyhill Forum Office opens
• axis presents a major digital media project which engages with over 120 young people in Ballymun schools and youth groups
• Phase 4 housing starts on site
• North Poppintree Community Centre opens
• Preliminary design of Rediscovery Centre launched
• New Poppintree Forum Office opens
• Cluid Housing Association’s Sheltered Housing opens
• Installation of Kevin Atherton’s multi-media and stainless steel sculpture in Balcurris Park
• Early Education Centre opens in Poppintree Community Centre
• St Michael’s House opens
• Whiteacre Park opens
• 346 Ballymun students graduate from the National College of Ireland
• 1,642 new homes completed under the BRL Housing Programme

Future Development

• IKEA opening brings 500 new jobs to Ballymun
• Ballymun United Football Club’s new facilities open
• Aisling Project’s new crèche and after-school facility opens in Balcurris
• Final phase of housing starts, incorporating further upgrade in building
• BRL announces possible axis extension, contemporary art gallery and artist’s studios
• Ballymun Residential Project for Boys opens
• Ballymun Residential Project for Girls opens
• Construction on Metro starts
• Rediscovery Centre opens in M50 Lands
• The first DCU in the Community students graduate
• 2,271 new homes completed under the BRL Housing Programme
• Plunkett Tower, the last Ballymun tower, demolished
• Last family moves out of the flats
• Demolition completed
• Balcurris/Balbutcher Forum Office opens
• Ballymun East Community Centre opens
• Poppintree Park completed
• 3,350 private homes completed in Ballymun
• Town Centre, Ballymun’s new shopping centre, developed
• First Metro through Ballymun