Agenda - Lucan-Clondalkin ACM (1) 15th October 2008
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Confirmation and Re-affirmation of Minutes
Minutes of Lucan/Clondalkin Area Committee Meeting (1) 17th September, 2008
Planning
Questions
To ask the Manager if any indication has been provided by An Bord Pleanála in relation to a decision being provided on the Clonburris SDZ, whether the Council is being kept up to date on progress in the interim, whether the Council can inform measures of any such progress; and if he will make a statement on the matter?
To ask the Manager for an update and a timescale on plans to evaluate additional lands along the Liffey Valley for an extended Special Amenity Area Order, as per the request made to the Council by the Minister for the Environment John Gormley?
To ask the Manager for an updated report on the monitoring by the Adamstown Planning Team of compliance with the conditions of the Planning Permission of that part of The Paddocks development which backs on to Meadow View Grove, Lucan, particularly in regard to boundary treatment?
To ask the Manager for an updated report on the taking-in-charge of Rossberry and Tullyhall Estates, including the entrance road and verges from the roundabout on Griffeen Avenue?
To ask the Manager if he will arange for an enforcement inspection report on the knocking down of the front garden walls of a house in Sarsfield Park Estate, Lucan (address supplied)?
Correspondence
Correspondence
No Business
Headed Items
New Works
No Business
Planning Files
A. Large applications under consideration
B. Files requested by members - No Business
Presentation on Planning Enforcement
Motions
Cathaoirleach's Business
That the Manager would report on what progress has been made on the provision of the Lucan South Secondary School, which has been the subject of my extended representations, and in particular my Motion to the September '08 Planning Department Meeting of the Lucan/Clondalkin Area Committee. Specifically would the Manager report on what recent communications have been made to/received from the Department of Education and Science on:
a. The options for the site for this second-level school, and
b. My recommendation for the fast-tracking of the building, including possible temporary building options,as discussed at the September 2008 Planning Department Meeting.
That the Manager would present a report on the Ninth Lock House advising; have there been any planning applications? Is / was this house on the Derelict Register also are any of the trees and or walls, buildings at the back of Cappaghmore between the estate and the station, protected structures or on any Derelict Register?
This Committee requests the Manager to seek any helpful information from An Bord Pleanála as to when the decision on the Clonburris SDZ can be expected. Given the lengthy period since the Oral Hearing on Clonburris, and since the Board has not been able to make a decision within the scheduled eighteen week period, nor within the revised date of 2nd September 2008, nor within the further target date of 2nd September 2008, any additional information would be appreciated by this Area Committee.
That this Area Committee calls on the Manager to initiate the process for the development of the proposed Liffey Valley National Park, in tandem with the extension of the SAAO as directed by the Minister for the Envirionemnt, and as provided for in the Current County Development Plan.
Corporate Services
Questions
To ask the Manager to write to Dublin Bus, asking it to outline plans to expand services in the light of the removal of the Circle Bus service, which is now seriously affecting commuters, and to clarify whether any requests have been made to the Minister regarding the expansion of such services, especially in the light of the Minister for Transport's response to a parliamentary question to the effect that no request had been made; and if Dublin Bus will further clarify the following specific queries:
a) Would it be feasible to split the 25A service into 2 separate services in South Lucan so that people don't spend 30mins at peak times traveling through estates before getting out on the N4?
b) Would it be possible to provide more buses on the 25 route?
c) There is a new 151 service operating from Adamstown Station heading down the Adamstown Link Rd serving Adamstown with yet less than 700 houses occupied. This service could better serve Lucan South at present if it commenced at The Superquinn Centre before heading for Adamstown station – until such a time the population of Adamstown increases. At present it leaves Adamstown most mornings almost empty while people 500mts down the road wait for an overstretched 25A. Could an extension of the 151 route along these lines be considered?
To ask the Manager to agree to again write to the Minister for Education and Science, requesting the Minister to give more definite and helpful information regarding the unacceptable delays in the provision of a new site for St. Andrew's National School. Would the Minister at least give a time-frame to identify a site for St. Andrew's?
To ask the Manager to provide an up-to-date and detailed report following my earlier request for consideration to be give to the establishing of the Lucan Town Council. Given that Lucan is the fastest developing community in Ireland, would the Manager agree that the establishing of the Lucan Town Council would be of significant benefit to the local community?
To ask the Manager when will the Bus Shelters be provided on Kennelsfort Road as agreed through my motion in November 2007 and February 2008?
To ask the Manager if he will write to An Garda Síochana, Ronanstown Station, conveying the concerns of this Committee about recent increases in anti-social behaviour and intimidation of residents in Shancastle Estate, Clondalkin and request An Garda Síochana to review the policing service to the people of the area with a view to increasing their feelings of security in their own homes and their neighbourhood?
Correspondence
Correspondence
(a) Letter received from Office of the Minister for Education & Science regarding Gaelscoil Eiscir Riada, Lucan
(b) letter received from Office of the Minister for Education & Science regarding Site for Second Level School in Lucan
(a) Letter received from Supt P Clavin (An Garda Siochána) regarding foot patrols in Lucan and Palmerstown Parks
Headed Items
New Works
No Business
Motions
Cathaoirleach's Business
That the Manager would provide an up-to-date and detailed report following my earlier request for consideration to be give to the establishing of the Lucan Town Council. Given that Lucan is the fastest developing community in Ireland, would the Manager agree that the establishing of the Lucan Town Council would be of significant benefit to the local community?
That the Lucan-Clondalkin Area Committee notes the continuing rise over the past two years in the Live Register numbers in the Clondalkin Social Welfare Office, is seriously concerned about high levels of unemployment in many parts of the Lucan and Clondalkin Electoral Areas, and requests the Manager to write to the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment seeking a review, by FáS and other agencies, of training and other employment support programmes in the area?
That this Committee supports the parents of staff of St. Brigid's Girls National School, Palmerstown and Gaelscoil na Camoige, Clondalkin in their demands for improved school accommodation, deplores the exclusion of both schools from the recently published list of school building and school renovation projects and requests the Manager to write to the Minister for Education calling for the inclusion of the two schools in the relevant school capital projects.
Roads
Questions
To ask the Manager if there are proposals to provide a school warden service on Griffeen Avenue? The provision of a school warden service on Griffeen Road is welcome however a school warden service is also required on the extremely busy Griffeen Avenue in order to facilitate pupils from the many estates on the southern side of Griffeen Avenue to safely access the Griffeen Valley Educate Together National School.
To ask the Manager for an update on the timescale for the completion of the N4 widening works and in particular the underpass at Newcastle Road junction?
To ask the Manager what further progress, if any, has taken place to examine and implement a grade separated underpass on the N4 at Kennelsfort Road junction in Palmerstown, given that traffic congestion is beginning to build at this location following the completion of the M50 interchange; and if he will make a statement on the matter?
To ask the Manager to report on the possibility of transferring the open space south of Mount Talbot and north of the Red Cow Interchange to the Mount Talbot, Clondalkin, residents?
To ask the Manager to meet with the Managment Committee of the Lucan Shopping Centre (Superquinn) regarding signage and the upgrade of the N4?
To ask the Manager to outline the TOTAL cost of the path upgrades in Cappaghmore and to ask the Council to contact Rathcoole Construction to go around the paths to tidy up between the paths and the grass verges?
To thank the Manager for the meaningful consultation relating to the footpath restoration at Ballydowd, Lucan, in the interest of the residential and trading communities at that location. A review of these footpath works would be most helpful on completion.
To ask the Manager to report in detail on the road and footpath drainage works carried out on Chapel Hill, Lucan, below the steps from St. Mary's Church Car Park. Despite these works, local residents, including many senior citizens, are still reporting that the footpath at this location remains the cause of safety concerns and inconvenience owing to regular muddy water on this footpath.
To ask the Manager for an up to date report on the securing of the laneways in Palmerstown?
To ask the Manager to have the grass growth along the back lanes in Palmerstown removed and treated to prevent future growth?
To ask the Manager when the parking scheme for the remainder of Clondalkin will start? Can the Manager provide an update on the present scheme with particular regard to the Floraville entrance area and Castle Park, Clondalkin?
To ask the Manager when public footpaths in Earlsfort Estate, Lucan are due for repair?
To ask the Manager for measures to prevent dangerous parking adjacent to Scoil Mhuire at Woodview and Airlie Heights, Lucan?
To ask the Manager for a progress report on the N4 Project, including anticipated completion dates, particularly in respect of the N4/Adamstown Road junction?
To ask the Manager if the Traffic Management Section would arrange for a traffic count to be carried out on Griffeen Avenue, Lucan between the junction with Griffeen Road and the junction with Hayden's Lane, to ascertain if traffic numbers warrant a pedestrian crossing/ crossings at a point/points along the Avenue, as pedestrian traffic in the area has increased in recent months with the opening of the new Educate Together Primary School, the growth in numbers at Griffeen Valley Educate Together Primary school, the opening of the Youth Services Centre and additional commercial outlets in the Griffeen Centre?
Correspondence
Correspondence
No Business
Headed Items
New Works
No Business
Proposed Declaration of Roads to be Public Roads
No Business
Condition Survey of All Houses within 50 Metres of N4 Widening Works
Motions
Cathaoirleach's Business
That the Manager would present a detailed report for discussion on the junction on the N4 at Kennelsfort Road, Palmerstown village, and that this Committee requests the Manager to seek a meeting with the National Roads Authority, and that this meeting will included Council Members, to discuss what options are available for this junction as a matter of priority and urgency for the benefit of the residents of Palmerstown, as it is becoming increasingly difficult for the people of Palmerstown to access Palmerstown village, and particularly as the upgrading of the N4 and M50 progress, the consequences for Palmerstown residents will most likely mean less traffic light time for Kennelsfort Road/Palmerstown village traffic.
That the median and green edges of the N4, Glenpark open space, Laburnum open space and Heather Grove open space be restored to an acceptable standard and maintained as such now that the main construction work on the M50 has been completed around the Palmerstown intersection. This whole area is now in a very deplorable state dragging down the whole area and represents a serious breach of both the An Bord Pleanála conditions attached to this design, build project and of commitments entered into with residents' representatives. For example, that the open space in Glenpark would be restored to full use in pristine condition by June 2007 and in fact this area is still very unfinished. Firm commitments with dates, etc. are now required if the quality of life of the residents is to be restored to anything like what it was before they were asked for, it's not for the common good, to endure dust, noise, disruption and uncertainty.
That the Manager would present an up-to-date report on the boundary walls of the N4 road widening works taking place, including the inconsistent and unacceptable boundary finishes to this major road project, that have become the source of great annoyance and upset to many local residents in the local community.
That this Committee instructs the Manager responsible to address the traffic situation in South Lucan and specifically to ban HGVs on the Newcastle Road (initially and as a matter of urgency during school commute times eventually at all times), the provision of a "green route" that facilitates pedestrians and cyclists along the Newcastle Road, the re-opening of the Esker lane to the N4 (Immediately to alleviate traffic congestion due to the N4 upgrade) and to bring a costed plan before this committee by at least February 2009.
That this Committee confirms its support for the continuance of the Tay Lane / N7 entrance and exit and requests the South Dublin County Council to confirm this.
That the Manager take action immediately to alleviate the problems with bin collections and other parking interference caused by the delay in installing yellow lines at the houses along the Old Lucan Road, Palmerstown (horseshoe), opposite Palmerstown House. This could include an immediate installation of said lines or, if this is not working, an extension of the village parking scheme with residents permits. At present some individuals are parking outside these houses on a narrow road rather than pay and display.
That this Committe requests the Roads Department to reconsider its response to the Principal of St. Kevin's Community College seeking the installation of traffic calming measures, including ramps, at or near the entrance to the school on Fonthill Road, and notes that Dublin City Council has installed major traffic calming measures on upper Ballyfermot Road, which is a major local distributor road, and that SDCC itself has installed traffic calming on a major distributor road, viz. Kennelsfort Road.
That the Manager prepare a report on any progress on cars speeding over the Ninth Lock Road and also exiting Cappaghmore and in general exiting onto any main road in Clondalkin.
That this Committee requests the Manager to support Lucan Pitch and Putt Club. In particular would the Manager clarify what impact the proposed road widening of the Newcastle Road at Lucan Pitch and Putt Club, will have on the club and its members, in addition to Lucan Sarsfields GAA, local residents and local businesses. Since this matter arose approximately two and a half years ago, the uncertainty of the impact of this road widening has been the source of great concern and worry to Lucan Pitch and Putt Club Members. The conclusion of all concerned is that Lucan Pitch and Putt Club will require a new Club House in the interest of safety and convenience.
That the Manager presents a report on the introduction of a parking strategy for Floraville Estate, Clondalkin with the timescale outlined.
That the Manager outline the issue of 3tonne vehcles on the Outer Ring Road and on the M50 since the Irish Haulage Association are seeking to waive the fees.
That directional signs for Deansrath Community College Clondalkin be provided asap at:-
- Nangor/St. Cuthbert's Road
- At the roundabout at Deansrath Church.
Development
Questions
To ask the Manager to report in detail on the up-to-date proposed use of the fenced-off vacant land adjacent to Gaelscoil Naomh Padraig, Lucan? As per my previous representations, this small piece of land could be put to good community/school purposes since the proposed road link through this land never materialised.
To ask the Manager for an up-to-date report on the site (former garage) on Lucan Road, Palmerstown and if the 18 Terminus is restored to the end of this cul-de-sac when will the area be tidied up and maintained in a manner in keeping with this residential area.
To ask the Manager for a reply to my earlier question as to who owns the piece of land in Hollyville, Palmerstown (beside the derelict site taken in charge by the Council)?
Correspondence
Correspondence
No Business
Headed Items
New Works
No Business
Motions
Cathaoirleach's Business
That the Manager would report in detail on the current situation following my earlier representations, on the vacant site adjacent to Educate Together National School, Lucan.
That the Manager present an up to date report on the intended Senior Citizen Facility on Orchard Lane, Clondalkin and indicates when the facility will be opened.