Capital gain: Grafton St set for major revamp

THE country’s most famous shopping area is to undergo a major revamp as Dublin City Council admitted that Grafton Street had suffered “a bit of a slide” in recent years.

Senior management of the local authority accept that there is a poor mix of retail outlets on the capital’s best-known shopping street with too many mobile phone shops and convenience stores.

However, Dublin City Planner, Dick Gleeson, yesterday confirmed that the council has plans to extend the designation of Grafton Street as an Area of Architectural Conservation to surrounding streets in order to achieve a better mix of uses as well as to protect the character of the area.