Confirmation and Re-affirmation of Minutes

Minutes of Lucan/Clondalkin Area Committee Meetings (1) 22nd November and (2) 28th November, 2006

 

• minutes 22/11/06
• minutes 28/11/06

To ask the Manager if there are plans to cut the beech hedge opposite the Cemetery in Newcastle that runs down to the village.

• qu 1

To ask the Manager how much money the Council has spent on improving the natural environment and green spaces in Newcastle in 2006 and how much they intend to spend in 2007?

• qu 2

To ask the Manager for an update and progress report on the development of the extension to Griffeen Valley Park?

• qu 3

To ask the Manager to remove fencing and large concrete posts at the weir in Lucan Demense ?

• qu 4

To ask the Manager when it is envisaged to officially open the skatepark in Lucan, which Councillors from various parties including the Green Party have been working towards for many years and to supply the regulations regarding its use?

• qu 5

To ask the Manager to provide an update regarding lights and the adjacent footpath and cycle path at Lucan running track?

• Lucan Running Track

To ask the Manager to report on the current progress in developing Glenaulin Park and to include in his answer details on the

• plan that is being implemented
• where the main entrance is, where the additional entrances are
• how the different age groups and interest groups are catered for
• budget
• timeframe
• problems encountered and envisaged

• Glenaulin Park

To ask the Manager if he will request the Parks Department to assess again the possibility of making improvements to Quarryvale Park, including trees, additional pathways and park furniture?

• Quarryvale Park

To ask the Manager if he will consider adding the short stretch of road verge on the right hand side of the road between the roundabout on Griffeen Avenue and the entrance to Rossberry/Tullyhall Estates, Lucan to the 2006/2007 Arboricultural Works Programme presented to the November meeting, having regard to the Reply to Question No. 30 at the meeting of 28 March 2006?

• Aboricultural Programme

New Works

 

 

Correspondence

 

Cathaoirleach's Business

That the Manager would agree to build a skateboard park in Clondalkin.

• Skatepark Clondalkin

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.

• Taking in charge Brookvale Estate

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.

That the Manager contacts the owner of Corkagh Park Fisheries to organise a meeting, with regards to funding. Also can the Manager give a time frame for completion of the car park behind Corkagh Fisheries / just off the Outer Ring Road roundabout.

• Fishery Corkagh

That this Committee calls on the Manager to report on progress in bringing  Waterstown Park  to a point where it can be opened to the public and to bring forward a schedule for

• the construction of a respectable entrance to the park from Waterstown Ave
• completion of the car park
• the eradication of anti-social behaviour from the park
• construction of a suitable peripheral fence between the park and Riversdale Estate that will both enhance the residential area and prevent the kind of anti-scoial behaviour residents have had to endure and include a lockable gate between the estate and the park
• appointment of park rangers to the park
• restoration of the Harris' farmhouse 
• development of a childrens play area in the park

The above are particularly overdue given that these lands have been in Council ownership for over 20 years and they have yet to be made available to the public.

• Waterstown Park

That a report be brought to this Committee on the possibility of providing a skateboard facility for the Clondalkin area in view of the success of the Lucan project.

• Skate park Clondalkin

That the Lucan-Clondalkin Area Committee recommends that the Manager take a flexible approach to implementing the 5 Year Playground Construction Programme in the Lucan Electoral Area, that he takes into account that there is no playground in Palmerstown or in the part of Lucan east of the Outer Ring Road, and consider the option of providing neighbourhood playgrounds at Hermitage Park, Ballyowen Park and Waterstown Park, with a possibility reduction in size and construction costs of the proposed Griffeen Valley Park playground near the 12th Lock.    

That the Manager would agree to examine the feasibility of providing a toilet facility to assist Lucan Sarsfields GAA at Willsbrook Park, Lucan.  Owing to the outstanding development and successes to date of Lucan Sarsfield GAA Camogie Teams who are based in Willsbrook Park, it is estimated that there is currently in excess of one thousand girls competing and training, parents, visiting teams and supporters attending Willsbrook Park each week where there is currently no toilet facility.

That this Committee calls on the Manager to take whatever steps are necessary to retain the open space leading from Glenaulin Rd to Glenaulin Park in Council care and in view of the considerable local concern that the mater be fully discussed.

That a report be brought to this Committee detailing the recreational facilities,passive and otherwise provided by this Council in the area of South West Clondalkin

• Recreational Facilities SW Clondalkin

To ask the Manager what funds the Community Department have received from development levies over the past year in the Lucan, Palmerstown, Clondalkin areas and how these funds have been allocated?

• Development Levies Monies Lucan Clondalkin

To ask the Manager to provide figures on the uptake of the homebound library service introduced in Lucan and Palmerstown in March 2006?

• Housebound Service

To ask the Manager to report on all applications for Grants Approved for 2006, including those applications in progress for the remainder of 2006, on an area by area basis including Lucan, Clondalkin and Palmerstown ? 

• Community Grants Lucan Clondalkin

To ask the Manager to report on progress in locating a Digital Hub in Palmerstown and if a briefing can be made to the January meeting on the concept and how it relates to the fact that Palmerstown is next on the list for a Library.

• Digital Hub Palmerstown

To ask the Manager if he will request the County Arts Officer, in consultation with the Community Department and the Management Committee of Balllyowen Castle Community Centre, to examine the potential  of one of the two available large rooms in the Centre being used as a permanent Art Exhibition Room, where the work of visual artists in the County could be displayed on an ongoing basis, serving effectively as an Art Gallery, to complement the valuable work of the staff of Lucan Library in facilitating artsts in holding short duration Art Exhibitions?

• Art Gallery Ballyowen Castle

To ask the Manager what financial and other supports would be available to residents of Droim na Coille Estate who are interested in setting up a Residents Association?

• qu 15

New Works

 

 

Correspondence

 

Application for Grants (if any)

 

• Community Grants Lucan Clondalkin Dec 06

 

Library News Events

 

• Library Events

Cathaoirleach's Business

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

That this Committee notes the reply of the Manager to Question (3) at the September 2006 Area Committee Meeting (2), and requests the Manager if he will consider devising a public consultation process through which residents in North Clondalkin and Palmerstown could consider and express their views on a proposal to locate a Regional Library at Liffey Valley with e-Learning Community Hubs at Palmerstown and North Clondalkin.  

That the Manager would provide an up-to-date report on the provision of a new swimming pool for Lucan. To thank the Manager for considering the inclusion of the new swimming pool as part of a new Sports and Leisure Centre. Would the Manager agree that a consultation process with the local community would be an invaluable assistance to gauge the required facilities in a new Sports and Leisure Centre, including dressing rooms for example, which would be of enormous benefit to many who currently use the existing Sports and Leisure Centre and Griffeen Valley Park generally. And that the Manager would continue to provide such information from the Architects Department so as to ensure that the design of a new Lucan Sports and Leisure Centre would be most aesthetically pleasing for the local residential community and environment of Griffeen Valley Regional Park.

• Lucan Swimming Pool

That this Committee requests South Dublin County Council to work closely with Neilstown Boxing Club to ensure that the club has a proper premises as soon as possible.

• Neilstown Boxing Club

To ask the Manager what measures can be taken place to ensure that the village of Newcastle does not become destroyed by dirt and muck during the extensive developments currently taking place?

• Newcastle

To ask the Manager to provide signage on the Aylmer/Castlebaggot Road and in the Athgoe/Castlewarden area to discourage fly-tipping and illegal dumping.

• Fly Tipping

To ask the Manager to provide a second tap in Newcastle cemetery to aid particularly those elderly relatives who visit the cemetery on a regular basis to tend the graves of their loved ones.

• Newcastle Cemetery

To ask the Manager if there are plans to install plastic and glass recycling bottle banks in Newcastle and if so, where will they be located?

• Bring Banks in Newcastle

To ask the Manager to outline the number of collections that are made each weekend from the plastic recycling bottle bank located at the Athletics Track, Newcastle Road, Lucan and if there are any plans to increase the number of collections in light of dumping at this location caused by an overflow of plastic bottles?

To ask the Manager to install a new litter bin at the entrance of the pedestrian walkway to Lucan Cloisters and Lucan Heights?

• Litter Bin

To ask the Manager to report in detail on progress made by the graffiti removal crew in Lucan, Palmerstown and Clondalkin. In addition what assistance will the Manager provide to local residents and Residents Associations where there continues to be an outbreak of graffiti in estates and at schools and where much of the graffiti is desecrating private walls.

• Q 22

To ask the Manager to report in detail on the Council's Free Junk Collection Programme for 2006 on an area by area basis including Lucan, Palmerstown and Clondalkin?

• Q 23

To ask the Manager to report on the gully cleaning service provided for roads and estates to date this Autumn and Winter on an area by area basis in the Lucan, Clondalkin and Palmerstown areas. The gully cleaning service is an essential and much appreciated service to help maintain clear gullies and drains so as to help prevent flooding?

• qu 24

To ask the Manager if he will make a report on the recent discharge of sewage from a  pipe transferring sewage from St Edmundsbury Hospital to a pumping station at the bank of the Liffey in Lucan at a location about 400 metres from the Boys National School, Lucan and if he will advise if the capacity of the pumping station to handle the waste in the light of occasional incidences of leakages from the pipe?

• Discharge of sewage

To ask the Manager if he will make a report on arrrangements made to have additional clear outs of the Bring Banks located in the car park of the Clubhouse (Weston Hockey Club/ Lucan Harriers/Hillcrest United on the Newcastle Road opposite Superquinn), Lucan over the Christmas/New Year holiday period?

• Bring Banks at Weston Hockey Pitch

New Works

Bring Banks

 

• Bring Banks

Correspondence

 

Cathaoirleach's Business

(none received)

That the collection days for Green Bins be reviewed for certain estates that due perhaps to their location (close to parks and open spaces subject to anti social behaviour) suffer particularly from bins being stolen and burned.

• Green Bins

To ask the Manager for a report on dealing with the snags in the apartments at Licarne Court, Clondalkin and what he is going to do to see that they are completed?

• qu 27

To ask the Manager to provide a report on dedicated housing for elderly and those with special needs in the Lucan, Palmerstown and Clondalkin areas?

• 9057

To ask the Manager to report on all cases of Anti-Social Behaviour on an area by area basis in the Lucan, Palmerstown and Clondalkin areas for 2006. Also what numbers of these have been resolved and how does the Manager propose to resolve any cases that may be outstanding?

• ASB Report

To ask the Manager if he will make a report on the Council's plans to provide play facilities for children in Buirg an Ri, Meile an Ri and the new phase of the Balgaddy development which is about to be occupied by families with children?

• qu 30

New Works

 Part 8 - Oldchurch

• H - I (7)

Correspondence

 

Report on Housing Construction Programme

 

• H-I (8)

Report On Implementation Of Traveller Accommodation Programme

 

• TRAVELLER REPORT

Cathaoirleach's Business

That the Manager

a)  Outlines her approach to replacing windows in social housing.

b)  Indicates her attitude to the replacement of windows in individual houses.

and c)  Outlines the programme for the replacement of windows in Council housing if such exists yet.

• Window programme

That the Manager makes contact with Habitat and puts forward a proposal for voluntary housing within the Clondalkin / Lucan areas.

• Habitat

That the Lucan-Clondalkin Area Committee recommends that the Council should allow tenants who are in rent arrears, but who are in compliance with the terms of  an agreement with the Council to repay, onto the Transfer List, so that such tenants can get credit for length of time on the Transfer List.

That this Committee agrees to ask the County Manager to invest in a pilot plan for providing a concierge service for our three storey apartments. Many tenants feel very vulnerable, particularly those living in ground floor apartments.

• mot 20

That this Committee recommends that South Dublin County Council enlarge the disabled person's toilet in the community facility in Liscarne Court  because it is too small for wheelchair users.

• mot 21

That this Council views very seriously, the continued use of the road margins on the Naas Road at Kingswood and New Nangor Road by Travellers as they pose a threat to their own children and to other road users and residents.

• 8372

That the Manager brings a report  to the Area Committee

(a) Outlining the extent of illegal caravan settlements in the Clondalkin Electoral Ward.

(b) Whether South Dublin Co. Council has a duty of care to any of the people concerned.

(c) What is being done to sort out the problem.

• 8781