Smithfield ‘live wall’ gets thumbs down from Dublin Fire Brigade as unsafe

A plan for a vertical garden built on timber panelling on the facade of a building owned by the Linders Group in Smithfield has been ruled unsafe by Dublin Fire Brigade as a fire hazard.

The fire brigade had refused to grant a fire safety cert for the proposed ‘live wall’, which was to be built on the south and east facades of Block B of Haymarket House, due to be completed in ...