Confirmation and Re- affirmation of Minutes

Minutes of Lucan/Clondalkin Area Committee Meeting held on the 21st of March 2006.

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• Minutes 21st March

To ask the Manager to determine the ownership of the wall between Esker Woods and Esker Meadows and to arrange for it to be rendered as per the planning permission.

• Q1

To ask the Manager to report upon the likely planning restrictions that would be imposed upon any future development on the Vincent Byrne site at the junction of the N4 and Kennelsfort Road and to request that the Manager examines the possibility of acquiring land in that area for future enhancement work at the junction.

• Vincent Byrne site

To ask the Manager if he can provide an updated report on that part of the Adamstown development that adjoins Meadowview Grove, Lucan, including information on the height (number of floors) of housing units in the area, the distance between the back walls of houses in Meadowview Grove, and the extent to which existing trees behind the existing houses will be retained? 

• Question 3

To ask the Manager for an updated report on the Lucan Village Design Statement project?

• Question 4

Applications for Planning Permissions and Decisions:

Files requested by Members.  

a) Large Applications under Consideration                (circulated herewith)  

 b)  b) Files requested by Members                               (circulated herewith)

• H - I (2) (a) Large Applications under Consideration
• H - I (2) (b) Files Requested

Report on Public Consultation on Proposed Amendment No. 1 to Adamstown SDZ Planning Scheme 2003’.

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• Headed Item 3

New Works (if any)

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Correspondence

(None Received)

Cathaoirleach's Business     Councillor F. McCarthy

That the Manager undertakes a study of the lands adjoining the Liffey running from Palmerstown, Lucan and Leixlip with a view to the preparation of a CPO for the lands in question to further Specific Local Objective No. 1 in the 2004 County Development Plan within 6 months of the passing of this motion.

• Motion 1

That this Committee recommend that South Dublin Co. Council undertakes a local plan for the Grange/ 12th. Lock Area which includes proposals for the use of its recreational amenities as well as limited  residential and commercial uses.

• Motion 2

That the Council draw up an Area Action Plan for the Palmerstown Village area incorporating the VL Byrne site and also all of the "Old Lucan Road" and the estates off it-both residential, recreational and commercial, and making provision for the up-grading of the Kennelsfort Rd/N4 Intersection, prior to entertaining any planning application for the area.  The availability of such an important site becoming available now for re-development opens up opportunities including the provision of social and affordable housing for the already over-developed community of Palmerstown and in the context that whatever development emerges at the VL Byrne site will define Palmerstown for at least the next fifty years. 

• Motion 3

That the Manager would report in detail on the Planning application for the use of Weston Aerodrome for parking purposes for a limited period during the course of this year's Ryder Cup Golf Competition.

• Cllr Keating-Ryder Cup

That a report be brought to this Committee regarding the 'open air salesroom' for cars currently on display at New Road, Knockmeenagh Road and St Brigids Road, Clondalkin and a further site at Boot Road (Island in the middle of the road).

• Motion 5

That the manager indicates what steps can be taken by this Local Authority to restrict the expansion of operations at Weston Aerodrome from its traditional light aircraft business into use as an executive jet facility.

• Motion No. 6

To ask that the Managers from different Departments meet with Councillors prior to local area meetings in relation to Headed Items – The last local area meeting was taken up with Headed Items.

• Q5 Headed Items

To ask the Manager to request information from Dublin Bus as to what plans are being considered, including time-scales, for the improvement of the bus services in the communities in Clondalkin, Lucan and Palmerstown. In addition what efforts are being made to provide better public transport linking Clondalkin, Lucan and Palmerstown?

• Question 6

To ask the Manager to request Dublin Bus to provide information as to what plans are being introduced, including time-scales, to provide a bus service for the residents in Balgaddy to Clondalkin Village.

• Q7 Dublin Bus

To ask the Manager to contact the Garda Commissioner congratulating him on the success of the pilot Automatic External Defibrillator schemes he is currently running and requesting that he extends the scheme to include the Lucan, Clondalkin and Palmerstown areas. 

• Q8 Defibrillators

To ask the Manager if he will write to Waterways Ireland requesting information on works, if any,  which it has carried out on the Grand Canal between the 9th and 12th locks since 2004, and if Waterways Ireland can advise the Council of any plans it has to enhance the Canal and its banks, including towpaths, in the near future? 

• Q9 Waterways Ireland

Proposed North Kildare / South Dublin Alliance Committee

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• H5 North Kildare/South Dublin Alliance Committee

New Works (if any)

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Correspondence

(a)   Letter from ESB Networks dated 22nd March regarding cost of undergrounding  overhead wires in Lucan Village.

(b)   Letter from Pobalscoil Iosolde, Palmerstown dated 4th April regarding community use of new sports hall

(c)  Letter from Dept. of Enterprise, Trade and Employment dated 12th April 2006 regarding increased numbers on the Live Register in the Clondalkin area.

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• Letter from Dept. of Enterprise, Trade & Employment.
• Letter from ESB
• Letter from Pobalscoil Iosolde

Cathaoirleach's Business     Councillor F. McCarthy

That this Committee calls upon the Council to extend its current limited provision of Automatic External Defibrillators to include all Council buildings and vehicles in the Lucan, Clondalkin and Palmerstown areas as a pilot scheme with a view to making them available in all Parks Department vehicles in the future.

• M7 Defibrillators

That this Committee requests the Manager to write to County Dublin VEC, requesting information on what arrangements are being made to make the facilities of the new Sports Hall in Collinstown Park Community College available for use by local residents outside of normal school hours and during school holiday periods.

• M8 Dublin VEC

That the Manager look to setting up a customer service desk in the Civic Offices, Clondalkin, for non-nationals outlining services available to residents e.g. housing, environment, parks etc.

• M9 Customer Service - Clondalkin Office

That the Manager would write to Dublin Bus and the Gardaí to acknowledge with sincere thanks every effort that Dublin Bus and the Gardaí are making to provide continuing bus service to all local areas, despite the anti-social behavior and criminal activities that are taking place and that figures demonstrate are on the increase, including damages to buses, window breakages etc. Such anti-social and criminal activities are putting bus services at risk owing to the serious threat to the safety of bus drivers and passengers alike.

• M10 Dublin Bus and Gardai

That the Lucan/Clondalkin Area Committee requests the Manager to write to An Post seeking a meeting of Council officials and elected members with An Post Senior Management to discuss the plans of An Post to ensure that adequate Post Office and postal services are provided in the Lucan area, having regard to the ongoing residential developments at Adamstown and elsewhere in Lucan.

• M11 An Post

To ask the Manager for an update on proposals to grade separate Newlands Cross from the N7?

• Q.10

To ask the Manger that future road signs be displayed in both languages.

• Q.11

To ask the Manager to report on the re-instatement works, including materials to be used and quality of finish planned, on the cycle paths in areas, for example Griffeen Avenue, where Magnet Entertainments is currently engaged in works to provide services, including Broadband, to many householders in housing estates in South Lucan. Would the Manager also please report on the other cycle paths in this area, for example on the opposite side of Griffeen Avenue, as the quality of these cycle paths is not of a standard to encourage cyclists to use this cycling facility.  Would the Manager agree to carry out an examination of these cycle paths and report back to the next Lucan/Clondalkin Area Committee Meeting of the Road's Department?

• Q.12

To ask the Manager to report in detail on the results of the Motion I tabled and which was passed at the last Road's Department Meeting of the Lucan/Clondalkin Area Committee, requesting the Manager to review the installation of noise attenuation measures as part of the Outer Ring Road. In a number of places on the Outer Ring Road there is a lack of such measures that is causing considerable upset in the Local Community in Lucan.

• Q.13

To ask the Manager to report upon what progress has been made in tackling the road safety problems identified in the School Safety Audit since last month’s meeting?

• Q.14

To ask the Manager, in light of the extension of the penalty points scheme to agree to make appropriate alterations to road markings in the Lucan, Palmerstown and Clondalkin area where hatched lines are used for lane reduction. With specific reference to the Woodies junction and the slip road at the Foxhunter where the current hatched lines would serve to greatly impede the flow of traffic.

• Q.15

To ask the Manager to indicate the timescale for the proposed Traffic Calming Scheme for the "cell" between Kennelsfort Road and the N4.

• Q.16

To ask the Manager to liaise with the local An Garda Síochána with a view to documenting the number of car crashes on the bend on the Collinstown Road, Neilstown. (Local residents have documented at least one car crash a month in recent times.) It is personally my belief that car speeding is a problem in this area & hence I request traffic calming measures on this road to protect pedestrians & other road users. The fact that a number of houses back onto this dangerous bend may result in a more serious type of accident.

• Q.17

To ask the Manager for a report on improving the public lighting in Wheatfield and Oatfield Estates, Clondalkin.

• Q.18

To ask the Manager when will the spur on to the Outer Ring Road at Balgaddy be open?

• Q.19

To ask the Council to secure the boundary from trespass on the N7 at approaches to the new Kingswood Bridge.

• Q.20

To ask the Manager if he can make a report on the provision of public lighting in Hanstead Estate, Lucan?

• Q.21

To ask the Manager if he will write to An Garda Siochana seeking information on the measures taken to enforce the ban on HGVs on Kennelsfort Road, Palmerstown?

• Q.22

School Survey (Interim Report)

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• H.I.7

Report on M50

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• H.I.8

Declaration of Roads to be Public Roads

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• H.I.9

Report on Palmerstown Traffic Calming

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• H.I.10

Amendment of Penalties for Non-Compliance with Control of Parking Bye-Laws (Lucan) 2004

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• H.I. 11

New Works (if any)

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Correspondence

(None Received)

Cathaoirleach's Business     Councillor F. McCarthy

That the Council immediately agrees to take the appropriate steps to replace the planned wall and fence along the boundary of Woodville Estate with a solid stone faced wall the height of the proposed fencing in order to provide residents with protection in excess of the minimum required by An Bord Pleanála.

That the Manager explains if there are any proposals to implement a HGV ban on Woodford Hill.

• M.13

"That this Committee recommends to South Dublin County Council that no land from Corkagh Park be taken for a park and ride facility and that such land be obtained elsewhere."

That a report be brought to this Committee regarding proposals for works at Newlands Cross which are scheduled.

That the Manager would respond to numerous incidents and serious traffic safety concerns arising from the demographics, size, design of the estate, and the location of the Community Centre within Earlsfort Estate by treating the matter of Traffic Management in the estate as an emergency problem, placing the safety of residents, particularly children, at serious risk, and agree to install appropriate traffic calming measures before Summer 2006 and outside the countywide Traffic Calming Programme.

• M.16

That the Council carry out a survey of the Back Lane network in Palmerstown with a view to securing them in such a manner that they will no longer be available for illegal dumping and/or for unsocial activities as the present situation is a source of ongoing and severe trauma for adjacent residents as well as a drain on scarce Council and Garda resources and frustrating for the whole community.

That the Lucan/Clondalkin Area Committee is concerned about ongoing problems with illegal parking in and around Lucan Village, including parking on footpaths and double yellow lines, and about apparent lack of co-ordination between the agency responsible for the implementation of the Council's Pay Parking Scheme and the the Traffic Warden Service, and requests the Roads Department to meet with An Garda Siochana in regard to the enforcement of parking regulations by the Traffic Warden service.

That the Manager would report in further detail on works scheduled for the restoration of footpaths, tarmacadam areas and kerbing on Kennelsfort Road, Palmerstown.  Would the Manager please note the concerns of the Local Community on Kennelsfort Road regarding any plans to introduce parking bays, given that the preferred option of Local Residents with whom I have consulted with to-date, is for restoration works without the addition of parking bays.

• M.19

That this Committee calls upon the Manager to detail the development levies received for road enhancement works from the developer of the St. Loman’s site and to immediately provide funding to the Roads Department to provide a traffic lights junction at the Fonthill Roundabout in line with the EIS carried out in respect of the application.

On the Eastern side of the Woodford Road there are a number of cul-de-sacs facing the road, all near to Boomers pub and facing it. The kerbs at these cul-de-sacs block off the residents’ entrances into their houses. This must be resolved as soon as possible.

• M.21

Would the Manager agree to provide a plastering finish to the short stretch of wall on Kennelsfort Road erected as part of the extinguishing of the pedestrian entrance from Kennelsfort Road to Palmerstown Court Estate.

• Q23

To ask the Manager to report further on the pending works, including time-scales, at the rear of house nos. 10-11 Cannonbrook Park, including the re-building of the boundary wall at the open space, the clearing, levelling and securing of the grounds. These outstanding works will be of assistance to restoring a better quality of life to local residents in Cannonbrook owing to ongoing anti-social behaviour arising from this currently un-protected open space.

• Q24

To ask the Manager to determine the ownership of the strip of wooded land running alongside Lucan Road at the rear of the houses in Esker Lawns towards Lucan Village.

• Question 25

To ask the Manager to indicate what land it owns in the vicinity of the entrance to Woodview Heights and Airlie Heights estates and to detail what steps will be taken to maintain its appearance.

• Question 26

To ask the Manager if the land at the top of Elderwood Road, recently the subject of a planning application, is in the ownership of the Council or if it was intended/designated as open space and to generally clarify the situation.

• Question 27

To ask the Manager if the Council can undertake to establish the ownership/title of the lane and adjoining strip of land between Wheatfield Road, Palmerstown and Oakcourt and Glenaulin Green estates?

• Q28
• Q28 map

To ask the Manager if there are any plans for the development of the lands, including lands in the ownership of the Council, bounded by the Kildare Route railway line, the Outer Ring Road and Griffeen Avenue, Lucan? 

• Q29

Report on Part 8 procedure - Michael Collins/St Patricks Park, Clondalkin

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• H-I 13

New Works (if any)

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Correspondence

(None Received)

Cathaoirleach's Business    Councillor F. McCarthy

That the Manager reports upon the current situation with relation to the land within the Council’s ownership that adjoins Lucan Educate Together National School with specific reference to the needs of the school in terms of future land requirements and traffic safety.

• Motion 22

That the Manager would report on the possible acquisition by this Council of the house for sale by the Clondalkin Partnership, adjacent to the Round Tower.

• Motion 23