Creche plans for Noble’s eco-house

CHARITY boss Christina Noble has abandoned plans to use a state-of-the-art eco-house in Dublin to replicate her work sheltering homeless young people in Asian slums.

Instead, Christina Noble Children’s Foundation has asked permission to turn the timber-frame home at the foothills of the Dublin Mountains into a creche.

When the house was originally given approval by South Dublin County Council four years ago it was intended to provide a halfway house for homeless teenagers.