![]() ![]() “Historically, properties that the DAA have purchased have been boarded up and left to go to ruin,” says Swords councillor Ann Graves. Is renting them out at a reduced rate an option? ![]() The DAA won’t say how much it has spent, nor what it plans to do with the houses it’s buying, “as it could impact on negotiations currently live”. From further inquiries, I discovered the state company has bought, or is buying, seven properties while offers made to four other residents have expired. “There has been a high level of interest in the scheme with several purchases already completed and others in process,” the DAA told me. While there were just five houses in the original “noise zone”, DAA has voluntarily extended it to cover a further 33 residences. The operator is currently offering a 30 per cent premium on market values. ![]() One of the conditions attached to the planning permission for the north runway at Dublin Airport was that the DAA offer to buy properties badly affected by aircraft noise. ![]()
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