Confirmation and Re-affirmation of Minutes 

Minutes of Clondalkin and Lucan Area Committee Meeting held on 26th September, 2006

• Minutes 26-09-06

To ask the Manager when will he provide the residents of the Boot Road with a junk collection?

• Junk collection

To ask the Manager to outline the number and location of new bins installed in the Lucan and Clondalkin electoral areas in the last 12 months, what plans are in place to install further bins; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

• New Bins

To ask the Manager to outline the number of residents in the Lucan and Clondalkin Electoral Areas who have applied for, and secured, an additional green bin; what criteria exist for applying for such a service; and how this information is made available to the public?

• Additional Green Bin

To ask the Manager to report on the Junk Collection Programme for 2006. Would the Manager list what estates have been completed by area, Lucan, Clondalkin, Palmerstown, Newcastle, Rathcoole, Saggart, Brittas and what areas still remain outstanding for the current year? 

• Question No. 4

To ask the Manager to report on his plans to install more litter bins on main roads in the Lucan, Clondalkin and Palmerstown areas, especially at bus stops. The lack of litter bins at some stops is the cause of increasing litter problems in our local Communities?

• More Litter Bins

To ask the Manager to report on what contingency plans are currently being put in place to minimise disruption and damages likely to be caused by bonfires during the Halloween period. Will the Manager agree to work closely with local residents associations in estates where it has been expressly requested that no bonfires take place this year.

• Bonfires

To ask the Manager to liaise with the new owners of the C & B Packaging site, given the age of the building, that all asbestos if any, be removed from the building in the case of a fire in the unoccupied site?

• Unoccupied building

To ask the Manager if he will request the Litter Wardens to investigate, with a view to prosecution, the very serious incidence of illegal dumping on the road/footpath in an estate in Lucan ( address supplied)?

• illegal dumping

 

New Works

 

 

Correspondence (if any)

 

Cathaoirleach's Business

                                                                      (No business received)

That the Manager would outline if there are any suitable sites within the Clondalkin/Lucan area for a dog pound. Is the Manager aware that people who rescue dogs are charged €25 to put them into a pound? Could any local groups working in this area be taken on board?

• Dog Pound

That the Lucan/Clondalkin Area Committee congratulates the people of Lucan, the Tidy Towns Group and local businesses on their contribution to the success of Lucan in the national Tidy Towns Competition. This Committee recommends to the Manager that the Council show its appreciation of that success through an initiative to further promote environmental and litter awareness, such as the provision of additional bins and bring banks and, perhaps, a shop front/shopping centre competition.

• Lucan Tidy Towns

That this Committee calls on this Council to again write to the Minister for the Environment urging him to introduce legislation to bring in a system of money back bottles and cans, backing up calls by the Green Party in the Dail, in order to make serious inroads into the litter problem that is blighting so many parts of Lucan, Palmerstown, Clondalkin and other areas and takes away from the excellent work done by so many community and environmental groups.

• Bottles and Cans

That the Manager would report on the recent examples of dumping and fly-tipping in the Lucan, Palmerstown and Clondalkin areas.

• Fly Tipping

That the Manager implements on a pilot bases, a poop-a-scoop scheme as implemented by Galway County Council.

• Poop-a-scoop

To ask the Manager what policy exists regarding the provision of smoke alarms in Council-owned housing units?

• Smoke Alarm Programme

To ask the Manager to outline plans for further affordable housing in the coming 12 months in the Lucan and Clondalkin Electoral areas.

• Affordable Housing

To ask the Manager the outline the number of anti-social officers currently serving the Lucan and Clondalkin areas, to outline how many warnings were issued to persons living in Council or housing association-owned dwellings in the last 12 months, how many eviction orders have been issued; and if he will make a statement on the matter ?

• ASSB Clondalkin

To ask the Manager to report on what improvements have been made at the Balgaddy Development since I first raised issues relating to security, traffic speed, restrictions in children playing, etc.

• Question 12

To ask the Manager to list the current number of housing applicants for the four bedroomed units, on the October 2006 housing list for the Clondalkin, Lucan  and Palmerstown areas. And how many four bedroomed houses have been delivered under Part V from 2005 to 2006?

• Question No. 14

To ask the Manager if all reported snags in the houses/gardens in Droim na Coille estate, Lucan, have been dealt with, and if he will make a report on the matter?

• Question No. 14

To ask the Manager if the Council has guidelines applying to the placing by tenants of CCTV cameras on their houses/apartments, if he will make a report on the matter and if the Council has addressed the issue of protecting the privacy of neighbours and other residents on its estates?

• Question No. 15

Report on Housing Construction Programme

 

• Housing Construction Programme

Report On Implementation Of Traveller Accommodation Programme

 

• H-I (4)

Part 8 Report on the Construction of the Airlie Heights Development

• Part 8 Report Airlie Heights

Report on Social and Affordable Housing

 

• Affordable Housing

Anti-Social Statistics

 

• H-I (7)

 

New Works

 

 

Correspondence (if any)

 

Cathaoirleach's Business         Councillor R. Dowds

That the Manager present an up to date report on the problems relating to 4 Lealand Walk, Clondalkin, and how, and when they are going to be resolved.

• Motion No. 7

That the Manager gives detailed information in relation to the “Corkagh Town Plan”. This plan is in relation to Affordable Housing.  Is there no other area within the Ward/County that would give the number of affordable houses needed? This would save Corkagh Park?

• Motion No. 8

That this Committee agree to have the outstanding finishing works concluded immediately at Moorfield Estate namely unfinished:

(1) Wall (boundary) at green space facing on to Neilstown Road (graffiti, builders litter)

(2) New wall be capped in such a manner that would deter anti-social activities.

• Item 7832

That the Manager provide a map showing where the County Council proposes to build Affordable Housing in Corkagh Park.

• Motion No. 10

That the Manager would report on new opportunities of Affordable Housing and Social Housing scheduled to come on stream in the future.

• Affordable Housing

That the Manager presents a report on Mayfield Park addressing the following issues:

(a) The new bridge/river work at the entrance to Watery Lane.

(b) Keeping the road clean for residents during construction work.

• Item 7866

That the Manager presents a report on Liscarne Court to include the following:-

a)  Completion of snag lists - when will this work be done?

b)  The Communal Room - when will it be opened and be in a position where meals can be served there?

• Motion 13

Could the Manager please give an update on current and future proposals for Collinstown Park, North Clondalkin?

• Question No. 16

To ask the Manager if he will consider reinstalling park benches in Willsbrook Park , given calls by residents for such facilities and to outline what security measures if any are available to monitor this amenity?

• Question No. 17

"To ask the Manager what plans are in place to provide a playground for Palmerstown and an additional playground for Lucan, in areas where residents are happy to have them located?

• Question No. 18

To ask the Manager to report in detail on progress made with the development of the new park at Ballyowen Lane and Mount Andrew Estate?

• Question No. 19

To ask the Manager, to pass on our congratulations to the Parks and Roads Departments regarding the refurbished roundabouts on the Nangor Road, Clondalkin.

• Roundabouts Nangor Road

To ask the Manager if the Parks Department could examine the hedges/trees on Chapel Hill along the footpath at the northern/western end of Sarsfield park open space, and arrange for cutting back?

• Question No. 21

Draft Playground Construction Programme

 

• Playground Construction Programme

 

New Works  

 

 

Correspondence (if any)

 

Cathaoirleach's Business                       Councillor R. Dowds

That the Manager presents an up to date report on the present playgrounds in Clondalkin and Lucan and outlines plans for further playground development in the same two areas.

 

• Playgrounds Clondalkin/Lucan

That the Manager would outline in detail the circumstances surrounding the delays in the taking-in-charge of the open space adjacent to and overlooking Brookvale Estate, Lucan, particularly given that Brookvale Estate has been occupied by Residents for more than ten years.

• Brookvale Estate Open Space

That that the Parks Department tidy or reduce the size of the green strip on the pavement at Boot Road, Clondalkin as it is in a most unsightly condition due to the parking of cars on these grass verges.

• Boot Road Grass Verges

That the Manager addresses the issue of youths congregating in the Monastery Gate Green area (adjacent to the M50).

• Monastery Gate Open Space

That this Committee calls on the Manager to request the Park's Department to initiate procedures to take in charge the open space at the rere of Brookvale Estate, Lucan including the steps leading from Esker Hill to the Lucan Road.

• Brookvale Estate Open Space

That this Committee agrees to ask the Parks Department to  provide a stronger barrier where trees are planted at Rockfield Drive, Clondalkin, to stop further incursions by Travellers on to the green.

• Rockfield Drive Green Space

To ask the Manager whether any survey has ever been carried out in North Clondalkin and Palmerstown regarding the suitability and desirability of locating a joint library at Liffey Valley Centre, given the fact that elected representatives are adamant that both areas require their own library, at the heart of each Community; whether it would be wise to carry out such a survey in advance of any firming of plans; and if he will make a statement on the matter?

• Question No. 22

To ask the Manager what contacts have been initiated with the Department of Education and Science with a view to opening the sports centre at Pobalscoil Isolde to the wider Palmerstown Community?

• Question No. 23

To ask the Manager to outline the timescale for the opening of a Community facility at Griffeen Valley?

• Griffeen Valley Community Facility

To ask the Manager to report in detail on new Community Centres scheduled to come on stream in the Lucan areas following the success of the new Ballyowen Castle Community Centre.

• Community Facilities Lucan area

To ask the Manager to report on all Grants approved for the first nine months of 2006 including a breakdown by areas, i.e. Lucan, Clondalkin and Palmerstown and totals of monies granted.

• Question No. 26

To ask the Manager for a progress report on the Council's efforts to provide a Community Centre/Facility in Palmerstown?

• Palmerstown Community Facility

Application for Grants

 

• Grants

 Library News Events

 

• H-I (12)

 

New Works

 

 

Correspondence (if any)

 

Cathaoirleach's Business                    Councillor R. Dowds

That the Manager re-examines the walls and security around Knockmitten Community Centre with a view to undertaking the following:-

a)  Putting a railing on top of the stub wall in front of the building's car park so that it cannot be used as seating for drinks parties.

b)  Re-organise the CCTV so that it covers both the building, the car park and surrounding areas.

• Knockmitten Community Centre

That the Lucan/Clondalkin Area Committee congratulates the Manager on the establishment of the Education Bursary scheme in co-operation with the Institute of Technology Tallaght, welcomes the inclusion of three Clondalkin second level schools in the scheme, and asks the Manager for an updated report on the implementation of the scheme. 

• Educational Bursary

That the Manager presents a detailed report for discussion on the request to provide Lucan's 1st Youth Café area as requested in my Motion to the June '06 Area Committee Meeting, including a report on the meeting between the Council and the Young Innovators Group in St. Joseph's College, Lucan that I requested at that meeting.

• Youth Cafe Lucan

That the Manager outlines his response to the proposal from the Dolcain Project to build a Youth & Family Centre in St. Cuthbert's Park.

• Dolcain Project