Headed Items
Confirmation and Re-affirmation of Minutes
Minutes of the Clondalkin Area Committe Meeting of 15th January 2014
Development
Questions
To ask the Manager for an update on 1A St. Patricks Road.
Headed Items
New Works (No Business)
Correspondence
Correspondence (No Business)
Motions
Cathaoirleach's Business (No Business Received)
That the Manager contacts the owners of Cappagh Lodge to secure the area, following on from an accident where a car hit a stray horse dashing out of the site.
Planning
Headed Items
Planning Files
A. Large Applications Under Consideration
B. Files Requested by Members
Taking in Charge Report
New Works (No Business)
Correspondence
Correspondence (No Business)
Motions
Cathaoirleach's Business (No Business Received)
This Committee agrees that the Manager shall present a report for discussion at the meeting on the completion of Ballynakelly/Newcastle Lyons estate with respect to the estate being taken in charge by the Council; detailing contacts between the Council and the receivers on the completion of all outstanding works on the site - and the Council and the Department of Environment with respect to the Departments on-going work on unfinished estates.
That the Manager updates the meeting on the Villages Initiative Funding and the new Shopfront Initiative, how and when will monies/allowances be awarded.
This committee agrees that the Manager will write to Dublin Bus and request the erecting of bus shelters at the bus stops on the 9th Lock Road between the junction with the Neilstown Road and the Fonthill Road servicing the communities of Woodavens and St Ronans.
Corporate
Questions
To ask the Manager for a report on the letting of the offices formerly occupied by the Motor Tax office in Clondalkin Village indicating if and when new tenants are likely to take up residence?
Headed Items
New Works (No Business)
Correspondence
Correspondence:
Letter to Operations Manager, Transdev dated 23rd January 2014
Reply from Transdev dated 4th February 2014
Motions
Cathaoirleach's Business (No Business Received)
This meeting agrees that the Manager should write to the Department of Social Protection and the HSE requesting that for the purposes of all social welfare and community welfare office services Meile an Rí, Tor an Rí and Buirg on Rí should be considered to fall within the catchment area of the North Clondalkin Health Centre in Rowlagh rather than the Health Centre in Lucan Village; the letter should outline the practical reasons for such a move including the lack of public transport links between Balgaddy and Lucan Village, the community links between Balgaddy and North Clondalkin; and the value in aligning both the SDCC and the Social Protection/CWO administrative boundaries of north Clondalkin;
Libraries
Headed Items
Library News & Events
New Works (No Business)
Correspondence
Correspondence (No Business)
Motions
Cathaoirleach's Business (No Business Received)
Community
Headed Items
Application for Grants
New Works (No Business)
Correspondence
Correspondence (No Business)
Motions
Cathaoirleach's Business (No Business Received)
Housing
Questions
To ask the Manager for an update on the mapping of potential housing infill sites in North Clondalkin as per the discussion following Motion no 25 at the December Clondalkin Area Committee?
To ask the Manager to provide a report on vacant units in Balgaddy including the total number of vacant units on 20 January 2014; the estates in which these units are located; the length of time each unit has been vacant; the councils plans for each of these units?
To ask the Manager to provide an update on the provision of traveller specific accommodation in the Ballynakelly Estate, Newcastle, Co Dublin detailing all contacts with the developers and receivers on the issue; the expected timescale for Council acquiring the units involved and whether the units will include caravan bays?
Headed Items
ANTI SOCIAL BEHAVIOUR REPORT - FOURTH QUARTER 2013
New Works (No Business)
Correspondence
Correspondence (No Business)
Motions
Cathaoirleach's Business (No Business Received)
Parks
Questions
To ask the Manager that the goalposts on the GAA pitches in Corkagh Park near the Community Centre are painted as they are in very poor condition (note this was agreed to be carried out at the April 2012 LAC)?
To ask the Manager to include the site behind Castlegrange Drive as a playground site in the list?
Headed Items
New Works (No Business)
Correspondence
Correspondence (No Business)
Motions
Cathaoirleach's Business (No Business Received)
This committee agrees to replace the bollards that have been damaged or removed at the cul-de-sac adjacent to (*Address supplied)and to replace them with bollards that are more difficult to vandalise.
That this Committee agrees to install a number of Pull-up bars in Corkagh park, as part of some exercise equipment. People are forced to use the children's playground in order to do pull-up exercises.
That this Council along with civic bodies in South West Clondalkin begin a community clean up of the section of the Green Cycle Route that starts from the 10th Lough to end of Kilcronin Estate. Plastic bags are other material have lodged themselves in the fence that is adjacent to the canal. With a little community involvement we can try and keep the canal and the pathway clean for all its users.
That the Manager address the overgrowth and encroachment on to the foot & cyclepath along the New Nangor Road east of the Ninth Lock Road Junction.
(item previously raised at the June 2013 meeting)
That this Committee agrees to address the issue of the huge trees towering over the houses (*address supplied), either remove or replant or prune to a height that does not over look the houses as leaves are falling into the gardens.
Environment
Questions
To ask the Manager to remove the bottle bank in the Clondalkin Sports and Leisure centre?
Further to Motion 6 agreed at the Clondalkin Area Committee of 20.12.13 to ask the Manager for a progress report on the provision for a bottle bank amenity in North Clondalkin?
Headed Items
Derelict Sites
New Works (No Business)
Correspondence
Correspondence (No Business)
Motions
Cathaoirleach's Business (No Business Received)
That the Manager bring a report to the Committee on the problem of illegal dumping and related anti social behaviour at junction of Deansrath Park (*address supplied) and St Cuthberts Park outlining the scale of the problem at this location and options for addressing these problems.
That the Manager writes to the owners of the 3 locations asking them if they would be willing to work with Clondalkin Tidy Towns in order to improve the look of each of the sites
- The 'Texaco' garage on the Monastery Road
- Lexington on the Monastery Road
- 'Nolans' house on the Old Nangor Road
and that the Manager confirms the status of whether they are derelict sites or not
That the Manager gives an update of the current status of the old CB Packaging Site and commits to enforce the relevant parties to clean up both this site and the ESB sub-station on the Ninth Lock Road as per ongoing items and correspondence
The Committee agrees that the Manager should bring forward a report for discussion at the Committee on the growing problem of illegal dumping in the Clondalkin LEA; the report should include the volumes of illegal dumping; the staff resources involved in collecting illegal dumping; the financial cost of illegal dumping; the numbers of fines issued and prosecutions secured; options and ideas for tackling this growing problem in the time ahead. The number of locations across the Clondalkin LEA in which CCTV has been installed for the purposes of combating illegal dumping, the cost of installing and operating each of these systems, the impact on illegal dumping measured by prosecutions or reductions in level of dumping, any other information that may be appropriate.
That the Manager brings a quarterly report similar to the Housing stats or ASB or Litter stats regarding the Clondalkin Tidy Towns update every quarter to the Clondalkin LAM
Water & Drainage
Headed Items
New Works (No Business)
Correspondence
Correspondence (No Business)
Motions
Cathaoirleach's Business (No Business Received)
Roads
Questions
To ask the Manager for an update on the clearing of blocked gullies around Clondalkin Village? ( as per members rep sent on 4.1.14 and replied to on 8.1.14 ref no 984355/38190)
To ask the Manager to provide an update on the work arising from Motion 14 passed at the December 2013 Clondalkin Area Committee?
To ask the Manager if there are any plans to improve the street lighting on Knockmeenagh Road particularly outside (*address supplied) as previously discussed?
To ask the Manager to update the committee re complaints from the residents of (*Address supplied) regarding the unannounced installation of service boxes on the grass verge directly outside his property and if an alternative more suitable location has been investigated?
Headed Items
NRA AND DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORT ROAD ALLOCATIONS 2014
Proposed Declaration of Roads to be Public Roads (No Business)
New Works (No Business)
Correspondence
Correspondence (No Business)
Motions
Cathaoirleach's Business (No Business Received)
That the Manager updates the Committee regarding continuing pooling of water along Ninth Lock Road (outside The Waterside & Cappaghmore) and Station Road, what measures are being taken to rectify the situation and when.
That this Committee expresses its concern that the many serious 'potholes' on the main routes around the village particularly New, Tower & Convent Roads have not been repaired adequately and calls on the manager to urgently address same with more permanent works.