Developers seek machine to crush concrete jungle

DEVELOPERS of the country's biggest regeneration project have applied for planning permission for a giant concrete crushing machine.

The mobile facility will crush and recover concrete and metal from the sprawling multi-storey flats complex in Ballymun, north Dublin.

The concrete and metal from the seven 15-storey, 19 eight-storey and 10 four-storey blocks of flats will fill an area the size of 10,000 square metres by 3,600 square metres.