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Dan Grennan

Adult entertainment shop ban on O'Connell Street street renewed

The ban on adult entertainment shops and amusement arcades on O'Connell Street has been renewed.

The restriction on certain shops from opening on the ground floor was in place on the capital's main street as well as Henry Street, North Earl Street and Middle Abbey Street.

The extended ban is part of the Dublin Central Development and will now include all the environs included in the scheme.

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Under the Special Scheme for Planning Control, bookmakers, discount stores and off licences are also not permitted to establish on the main streets.

However, prominent Fine Gael Councillor Ray McAdam told Dublin Live the plan "needs to be much more ambitious".

He said: "Municipal authorities in other global capital cities are reimagine their ‘National’ Streets at present. Just look at the Champs-Élysées and what the Mayor of Paris and the city authorities are visioning for it."

The Mayor of Paris announced plans to turn their main street into "an extradentary garden" in a development costed at €250 million.

Cllr McAdam said O'Connell Street needs to become a destination rather than a passage to somewhere else.

He said: "O’Connell Street is our National Street and at present, despite all the improvements in recent years is still an avenue to an alternative destination rather than being a destination in itself.

"In addition to reviewing our special planning schemes for O’Connell Street, Dublin City Council needs to reimagine the public realm and space along the street, how it can used to attract more out-door recreational and leisure opportunities, greater greening initiatives and enhanced public lighting so as to ensure O’Connell Street is a destination once again, both for Dubliners and tourists alike."

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