TII has established a Property Owners' Protection Scheme (POPS). This was implemented in order to alleviate any concerns that private residential property owners may have regarding potential damage to their property, where their property is situated close to the MetroLink alignment.
MetroLink Property Owners’ Protection Scheme (POPS) is a voluntary, non-binding, free of charge Scheme that allows homeowners (i.e. owners of residential property) and owner management companies (in relation to residential common areas) to sign their property up to the Scheme. This Scheme is available to homeowners, where their property is:
(a) thirty (30) metres outside the edge of the tunnel alignment, or
(b) thirty (30) metres outside the edge of open cut or cut and cover structures, or
(c) within fifty (50) metres of station underground structures.
Please also note that where the 1mm settlement contour extends beyond the limits above (EIAR Appendix A5.17 refers), the boundary for POPS has been extended accordingly.
If your property immediately adjoins a house that is eligible for POPS, you will also be eligible for POPS. This means that if one semi-detached house is in POPS, then the immediately adjoining semi-detached house is also now eligible for POPS. In addition, if one property in a terrace is already included in POPS, the immediately adjacent house in that terrace is also now eligible for POPS.
The Scheme is restricted to residential properties and landlords of residential properties. However, if there is a commercial entity that is part of the residential property this will also be surveyed as part of the Scheme. For instance, a property that has residency upstairs and a retail unit at ground level is eligible for the Scheme.
Updated POPS Boundary Maps (06 March 2024) are available here.
TII has established a panel of three independent firms of building surveyors. When you sign up to the Scheme you will be invited to select the firm of building surveyors from the panel of building surveyors (and if a qualifying property is on the Record of Protected Structures, this survey will be carried out by a Conservation Specialist).
This firm will carry out an initial condition survey of your residential property before construction begins. After they complete the initial condition survey they will issue that initial condition survey report to you and TII.
If, in the course of the MetroLink works, a homeowner considers that an interim condition survey is required, the homeowner will inform TII of this and the reasons for same. The homeowner will then be invited to select from the panel of building surveyors, and the appointed surveyor will carry out the survey and issue this to the homeowner and TII.
After construction, a final condition survey will be carried out on your residential property by the firm of building surveyors you selected at the start of the Scheme. After they complete the final condition survey, they will issue the final survey report to you and TII.
This Scheme will remain in place for twelve months after the opening of the MetroLink Line to passengers.
Transport Infrastructure Ireland is continuing to engage with eligible property owners in relation to the Scheme.
Closer to the start of MetroLink construction in your area, further notifications and updates will be provided, and (if you haven’t signed up already) you will have the opportunity to select the firm of building surveyors from the panel of three independent firms of building surveyors. You will then be invited to select your preferred firm of building surveyors and they will contact you directly to make arrangements for the initial condition survey to be carried out before construction starts.
MetroLink Property Owners' Protection Scheme - Updated 06 March 2024
Updated POPS Boundary Maps - Updated 06 March 2024
MetroLink Frequently Asked Questions to learn more.
By e-mail at pops@metrolink.ie or by freephone at 1800 333 777.
Information in relation to POPS will be updated from time to time, to provide additional clarity to the public on the Scheme’s operation, where required.