Agenda - Clondalkin Area Committee Meeting 17th April 2013

Confirmation and Re-affirmation of Minutes

Minutes of the Clondalkin Area Committee Meeting of 20th March 2013

• HI 1

Application for Grants

• HI 2

New Works (No Business)

Correspondence (No Business)

Cathaoirleach's Business (No Business Received)

To ask the Manager to give a report on the problems currently being experienced at Deansrath Park (address supplied) including illegal dumping & rat infestation, to detail the work that is currently taking place at this address or that is planned for this address and to indicate when this unit will be allocated?

• Q 1

Social Housing Support Scheme

• H4

New Works (No Business)

Correspondence (No Business)

Cathaoirleach's Business (No Business Received)

New Works (No Business)

Correspondence (No Business)

Cathaoirleach's Business (No Business Received)

That the trees at Riverside Drive, Clondalkin be clipped as residents state that area is now too dark.

That a replacement tree be planted at Moorfield Drive outside No.40

To ask the Manager if it can be organised for Clondalkin Tidy Towns to gain access to the CB site on the Ninth Lock Road in order for them to clean up the litter and debris there?  The whole area is a huge blackspot which was pointed out in last years report and will have a detrimental effect on the efforts of the group again this year if it is not addressed. 

• Q 2

Derelict Site on corner of New Nangor Road and Ninth Lock Road

• HI 7

Illegal dumping in the vicinity of Samildanach GAA Sports Club

• HI 8

New Works (No Business)

Correspondence (No Business)

Cathaoirleach's Business (No Business Received)

That the Manager brings a monthly headed item report on Tidy Towns items each month to the Clondalkin Area Committee Meeting.

• M 7

That the Manager present a report on (address number supplied) St Brigids Cottages, Clondalkin and explain how it is not considered to be derelict given the fact that it has a gaping hole in the roof.

• M 8

To ask the Manager to provide a report on the issue of blocked drains and flooding in Liscarne Gardens following the recent heavy rains and to outline what work the Council intends to undertake to resolve this problem?

• Q 3

New Works (No Business)

Correspondence (No Business)

Cathaoirleach's Business (No Business Received)

To ask the Manager if a zebra crossing could be installed in the Newcastle Lyons estate adjacent to the block of apartments at the entrance to the estate to facilitate people who cross here to access the Texaco shop?  The current situation with no designated crossing point is very dangerous. 

• Q 4

To ask the Manager what progress has there been in relation to the phone boxes in Clondalkin village, which continue to present a health and safety hazard to pedestrians?

• Q 5

To ask the Manager what plans are in place to deal with the numerous potholes in the Clondalkin village area?

• Q 6

To ask  the Manager for a nameplate for Riverside Drive, Clondalkin. (missing for a lengthy time).

• Q 7

Proposed Declaration of Roads to be Public Roads (No Business)

New Works (No Business)

Correspondence (No Business)

Cathaoirleach's Business (No Business Received)

That this Committee requests the Manager to address the lighting issue at the top of New Road (dead end)/Newlands Road. This is a very dark and quiet corner and has become a 'hang out' area for youths in cars and also the scene of some serious anti-social activity of which the Gardai are aware. I believe an extra lamp to brighten the area would detract individuals from gathering in this corner?

• M 11

That this Committee would like to express serious concern with the issue of cars travelling too fast on Watery Lane from the Woodford Junction to the Village and as well as contacting Gardai for action we would request that the Council prioritise this road for a traffic calming scheme. There is a huge amount of pedestrian traffic along this route as well as there being shops,schools, scouts den and several residential entry/exit points.

• M 12

To ask the Manager further to his response to Question no 5 at the March 20 Clondalkin Area Committee to provide an update on the transfer of land between Kilmahuddrick Road and Kilcronan Grove from Cluid Housing Association to SDCC and in light of the very serious illegal dumping at this site to outline what plans the Council has to resolve this issue once the transfer from Cluid has been completed?

• Q 8

New Works (No Business)

Correspondence (No Business)

Cathaoirleach's Business (No Business Received)

That the Manager outline the current situation re: strip of land at rear garden of Moorfield Lawns (address supplied).  Resident, states that builders who were building two houses at rear of his garden took away his fence and told him the Council would note the change to his garden. The resident has never had a reply from South Dublin County Council. That the situation be cleared as to ownership of land.

To ask the Manager can the Council take action against the builders of Cherry Orchard Industrial Estate which is left in an unfinished state with lack of proper street lighting and unfinished roads and pavements?

• Q 9

To ask the Manager to provide a report on the issue of unfinished estates in the Clondalkin local electoral area including whether any estates in the LEA were considered by the Council for proposed inclusion in the Department of Environment's list of unfinished estates for exclusion from the House Charge and the revised list for the Local Property Tax and in this context to ask the Manager to detail why Ballynakelly/Newcastle Lyons estate in Newcastle, Co Dublin was not considered for recommendation by the Council for inclusion in either of the Departments lists of unfinished estates?

• Q 10

Planning Files

 A. Large Applications Under Consideration

B. Files Requested by Members (No Business)

• HI 14(A)

New Works (No Business)

Correspondence (No Business)

Cathaoirleach's Business (No Business Received)

That the Manager present a report on the situation in the Newcastle Lyons Estate and explain why the Council has not used it powers in relation to the bond which has been lodged with it in order to ensure that the estate is completed.  There are a number of serious health and safety issues which have been pointed out by the estate committee and these and the other issues relating to the completion of the estate could be addressed, if the council called in the bond.

• M 16

That the Manager present a report in relation to the taking in charge by the Council of the Glebe estate in Newcastle.

• M 17

New Works (No Business)

Correspondence (No Business)

Cathaoirleach's Business (No Business Received)

Library News & Events

• HI 17

New Works  (No Business)

Correspondence (No Business)

Cathaoirleach's Business (No Business Received)