The Irish Times stated[2] that SADD "...took the discussion out of drawing rooms and relatively polite meetings into the streets – occupying threatened buildings, staging well-flagged protests and acting as shock troops against road-widening schemes that had done so much damage to the inner city's fabric".
Many of the key figures in SADD went on to work in architecture, planning, design and environmental management and continued to contribute to improving urban life in Dublin and further afield.
In June 1987, the group campaigned to protect buildings on Clare Street in Dublin 2 that were threatened with demolition and replacement with a new entrance for the National Gallery of Ireland.
In the same month it also campaigned unsuccessfully to save an historic Quaker meeting House in Gray Square in Dublin's Liberties from demolition.
[9] Later that year it campaigned against the comprehensive redevelopment of Dublin's Bachelor's Walk and produced a postcard entitled 'Don't destroy the central river bank of Ireland'[10] featuring a facsimile of a ten-pound note.