During the planning and delivery process, the regeneration project attracted well-publicised questions about accountability and democratic participation. During its time, for various reasons, also, most of the large number of community organisations closed. Further, and again for a variety of reasons, the regeneration saw th loss of many shops, most notably the emptying of Ballymun Town Centre, the only shopping centre, with the result that, as happened when Ballymun was first built up, the more than 17,000 residents have to travel to other districts for major grocery, and virtually all non-grocery, shopping. The plan for a replacement centre failed, and as of 2021, there is no central shopping facility. The shopping centre was eventually demolished in 2020.