Agenda - Clondalkin Area Committee Meeting 16th November 2016

Confirmation and Re-affirmation of Minutes of Meeting of 19th October, 2016.

• Minutes

"To ask the Chief Executive to provide an update on the footpath analysis conducted on foot of motions tabled last month by Councillor Bonner and I."

• Q 1

"To ask the Chief Executive to issue a report into the condition of paths around Clondalkin village, and when work will be done to improve some dangerous paths given investment in the Tower Heritage Centre and expected Tourism, this is an urgent matter?". 

• Q 2

"To ask the Chief Executive for a report update on Monastery Road roadworks, and to explain delays to the public?"

• Q 3

New Works (No Business)

WINTER MAINTENANCE PLAN 2016-2017

• HI 3

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

Correspondence (No Business)

"That the committee agrees that work on the footpath at the entrance (right side) of Woodford Garth, repairs are needed ungently. Also outside house no. 9-11 on the same road, again this is a matter of urgency".

• M 1

New Works (No Business)

Planning Files A. Large Applications Under Consideration B. Files Requested by Members

• HI 6

Correspondence (No Business)

"To ask the Chief Executive to reissue by print, 100 Clondalkin Fairtrade window stickers so the committee can develop Clondalkin as a Fairtrade town. All supporters will be named on our new website coming soon?"

• Q 4

"To ask that the Council give an update on  the overall planned strategy for place-naming and place-finding protocols that are being developed to oversee the approval and standardisation of features such as commemorative plagues and heritage information signage and when this signage will be delivered across the county." 

• Q 5

New Works (No Business)

Correspondence (No Business)

"Despite getting status a few years ago, there is still no marking that states Clondalkin is a Fairtrade town. This committee supports that Clondalkin Fairtrade Towns calls for appropriate signage outside SDCC Clondalkin to mark this huge achievement."

• M 2

"To ask for a report why the popular Sarah Sparkles toddler entertainer has stopped in Clondalkin Library ?"

• Q 6

New Works  (No Business)

Library News & Events

• HI 9

Application for Arts Grants (NO Business)

Correspondence (No Business)

"To ask the Chief Executive  to confirm the issuing of a letter to An Bord Pleanála in relation to the case in connection with Behans Quarry, Rathcoole and to provide any update received as correspondance."

• Q 7

New Works (No Business)

Correspondence (No Business)

"That this committee agrees to write to the Minister for Justice and detail concerns over growing anti-social behaviour in the Newcastle area and ask that extra patrols be carried out in the area as a matter of urgency."

• M 4

New Works (No Business)

Correspondence (No Business)

"To ask the Chief Executive  to include funding for a public park in Newcastle in the Capital Budget 2017." 

• Q 8

"To ask for a report on the request for tree pruning of sycamore trees in Oakwood (particularly between 17 and 18 Oakwood Grove) which are causing allergies and other health issues for customer?"

• Q 9

“To ask the Chief Executive to provide an update on the plans for the future development of the Corkagh Park fishing lakes including an update report of the tender process specific to the Fishery operation.”

• Q 10

New Works (No Business)

UP Update on 5 year Playspace Programme 2014-2018

• HI 14

Correspondence (No Business)

"That this committee calls on SDCC to accept and act on the comment from Tidy Towns Adjudicators that  ''The Monastery Park Estate, has some great quality lime trees on the roadside margins with many low branches, some of which should be removed next winter to make it easier for pedestrians and cyclists.''

• M 5

“ That this Committee agrees that the Council  fix the kissing gate at Lindisfarne Grove and St Cuthbert’s Park.”

• M 6

"That the Chief Executive  cap the wall on public land at Monastery Rise / Floraville as requested by the  Residents Association. image attaced.

"To ask the Chief Executive  if additional litter warden patrols are being carried out in Rathcoole in response to the increase in littering."

• Q 11

"To ask the Chief Executive for an update report on the Clondalkin Equine Project?"

• Q 12

New Works (No Business)

Correspondence (No Business)

"That this Committee agrees in anti-dumping signs being placed along St Cuthbert's Road and the "ring road" in Bawnoge, to help change the culture of roadside dumping and to protect the environment."

• M 8

New Works (No Business)

Correspondence (No Business)

"To ask the Housing Department how many people have been housed by the Council in Aylmer Heath in Newcastle, and if there are any remaining vacant properties owned by the council in the estate?"

• Q 13

"To ask the Chief Executive  to provide a report on Council adaptation grants for the North of the Nass Road area broken down by grant type and tenure type (Council and Private); the total number of outstanding applicants approved and waiting funding and the total amount of funding required to clear this waiting list; the total number of grants approved and funded for 2015 and in 2016; the total number of applicants that can not be progressed because of outstanding requests for OT reports."

• Q 14

New Works (No Business)

Correspondence (No Business)

"This Committee agrees to invite managers of the Clondalkin and Tallaght  Travellers Development Projects to give members of the Clondalkin Area Committee a briefing on the services they provide and to inform the Committee how best we can be assistance to them in advance of the next available area committee meeting."

• M 9

"That this committee, in light of the worsening of the housing crisis, agrees that any land with residential zoning owned by SDCC should solely be used for public housing."

• M 10

New Works (No Business)

Correspondence (No Business)

"That this committee ask that SDCC to look at a location within the Global Garden for a 40ft x 12ft container for Clondalkin Men's Shed (will be supplied by the Men's Shed Ireland) - We agree this would not only sort out the accommodation needs of Clondalkin Men's Shed, but would provide opportunities for inclusion for both older and intercultural citizens. The Clondalkin Men's shed would also participate in the upkeep of the Garden. Also that security around the Garden be looked at".  

• M 11

"This Committee agrees that as the Clondalkin St Patrick's  Day festival is funded by the Council that all Councillor's in the Clondalkin LEA  be invited to sit on the organizing committee and that a full report be presented to committee by the officials on last years events including all funding and expenditure etc. The committee also agrees that Council staff should be on the committee and minutes should be publicly available."

• M 12