Confirmation and Re- affirmation of Minutes

Minutes of Lucan/Clondalkin Area Committee Meeting held on the 22nd of November 2005

(circulated herewith)

• minutes 22-11-05

To ask the Manager why has there not been any progression in relation to the plot of lands a) between 9 and 13 Moorefield Green and b) at 26, 28, 30, 32 Moorefield Green. This land is still in Council ownership and therefore the residents cannot apply for planning permission to get whatever works done as necessary. Please clarify.

• Question 1

To ask the Manager to provide details of the site where it is proposed to construct infill housing in Airlie Heights Estate ?

• Question 2

To ask the Manager to give details of what work has been carried out in Buirg an Rí and Meile an Rí estate since the recent site visit undertaken by Councillors and officials.

• Question 3

To ask the Manager if he can advise the Committe as to the number of applicants for Affordable Houses, in 2004 and 2005, gave current addresses in (a) the Lucan Electoral Area and (b) the Clondalkin Electoral Area? 

• Question 4

To ask the Manager if he can advise of the number of applicants on the Council's Housing Lists with addresses in (a) Lucan and (b) Palmerstown?

• Question 5

REPORT ON HOUSING CONSTRUCTION PROGRAMME

(circulated herewith)

• H I 2

REPORT ON IMPLEMENTATION OF TRAVELLER ACCOMMODATION PROGRAMME

(circulated herewith)

• HI (3)

New Works (if any)

(No Report)

Correspondence

(none received)

Cathaoirleach's Business                    Councillor F. McCarthy

That this Committee requests that the Manager identifies suitable locations for the provision of sheltered accommodation for the elderly in Lucan, Palmerstown, Clondalkin and Newcastle-Lyons. It is desirable that people be enabled to continue living in their own communities through the appropriate provision of assistance where necessary. 

• motion 1

That the Lucan/Clondalkin Area Committee recognises the considerable concerns of parents in Buirg an Ri and Meile an Ri about the safety of their children at play and requests an updated report on the Council's approach to provide safe play areas to serve the overall Balgaddy housing development when completed, including provision to be made to ensure safe access to individual play areas from the various parts of the development, having regard to the fact that Balgaddy Road  goes through the development.

• motion 2

That the Manager would report in detail on what works are scheduled, including time-scales for these works, to make all footpaths accessible for wheelchair users, disabled residents, senior citizens and parents pushing buggies. The dishing of all footpaths, which should have been carried out at construction stage, is now long overdue and is compromising the safety of many people, particularly Local Resident of Balgaddy.

That the Manager undertakes the programme of works as listed below, which was outlined 17 months ago.  

The programme of works regarding facilities at Lynches Lane was as follows:  

 1.      Initial survey and assessment of works needed : 2 – 3        weeks.                            

2.      Design drawings and specification : 4 – 6 weeks.

3.      Tender Production: 4 – 6 weeks

4.      Tender Process 6 – 8 weeks.

• Motion 4

That this Committee recommends the immediate re-establishment of an anti-social housing unit in Clondalkin, in part to ensure that people seeking private rented accomodation don't miss out on their chances due to the current delay in anti-social officers signing their forms.

• AS Unit Clondalkin
• County Staff Breakdown

That a report be brought re the occupant of Buirg an Ri Glen whose disability is not helped by a) not having the footpath dished on the path to the main road and b) installation of bathroom accessories to enable use of  the bath which have been placed on the wrong side of the bath and hence are of no use to the disabled gentleman.

• Motion 6

That the Manager would arrange to have the illegally dumped rubbish removed from the green area of Oldcastle Drive, Clondalkin.

• Motion 7

To ask the Manager to re-instate land in the vicinity of Oatfield and Wheatfield damaged by bonfires?

• qu 6

To ask the Manager to prune trees in Wheatfield Estate?

• qu 7

To ask the Manager to ensure that any mature trees removed in the course of the construction of the Outer Ring Road are automatically replanted the other side of the boundary railings and walls between the road and adjoining estates. Once the work has ceased additional planting should then take place on the road-side.

• qu 8

To ask the Manager to re-examine what additional steps would be necessary to improve security within Willsbrook Park and to indicate when such an examination is likely to take place.

• qu 9

To ask the Manager to examine the desirability of providing a pathway along the inside perimeter of Esker Lawns Green in consultation with Esker Lawns Residents Association.

• qu 10

To ask the Manager to outline what additional facilities are planned for Hermitage Park given the need for additional play facilities for all of the children in nearby estates.

• qu 11

To ask the Manager if he will request the Parks Department to investigate the possibility of erecting  a suitable structure/safety barrier at a section of the bank of the Griffeen River in Lucan Village Green to enable young children to feed the ducks safely, with view to having the work done in 2006?

• qu 12

To ask the Manager if he can provide the Lucan/Clondalkin Councillors with the Draft Report of the Council's Play Policy as discussed at the November 2005 meeting of the Sports, Recreation, Community and Parks SPC, and if he can arrange for the Play Policy to be placed on the Agenda as a Headed Item for a future Area Committee meeting?

• qu 13

New Works (if any)

(No Report)

Arboricultural Programme 2005-2006

(circulated herewith) 

• Arb Prog 2005 2006

Correspondence

(none received)

Cathaoirleach's Business

That the Manager considers making provision for suitable park benches in all parks in the Lucan, Palmerstown and Clondalkin areas in instances where they are not likely to create a nuisance. It is widely recognised that park users would appreciate the provision of benches.

• mot 8

That the Manager identifies lands suitable for a skateboard park in the Clondalkin ward. Would there be space available in Corkagh Park?

• mot 9

That the Manager would provide an updated report on the construction and fitting out of the Council's Skateboard Park at Griffeen Valley Park, including information on the actions planned by the Council to promote the use  of the Park to young people in Lucan and the broader South Dublin County.

• mot 10

That the Manager trims / removes the tree outside numbers 190 and160 Alpine Heights.

• mot 11

To ask the Manager to inform the Committee of sporting grants available either from the Council, government or other bodies.

• Sporting Grants Available

To ask the Manager to consider providing further financial assistance towards the provision of Christmas lights on the trees along Main Street Lucan in association with local traders.

• Christmas Lights Lucan

To ask the Manager to outline what community facilities are being provided in conjunction with the development taking place on the Stewarts lands at Balgaddy.  

• Development at Balgaddy

To ask the Manager if he will request the Parks Department to investigate the Play Bus concept, as operated by a number of local authorities in Britain, as a means of providing local play opportunities for children in the newly developed residential areas of Lucan and Clondalkin, providing an additional option to traditional playgrounds?  

• Play Bus Concept

Applications for Grants

(circulated herewith)

• Grants

Library News/Events

(circulated herewith)

• H-I (8) Library Events

New Works (if any)

(No Report)

Correspondence

(none received)

Cathaoirleach's Business

That the Manager outlines what funds the Community Department has received from development levies in the past year in each of the Lucan, Clondalkin, Palmerstown and Newcastle Lyons areas and to outline to what capital uses these funds have been put.

• Community Levies

That the Manager present a report on the Knockmitten Community Centre currently under construction, when it will be ready and could he confirm that the changing rooms in the Centre will be fully kitted out when it opens.

• Knockmitten Community Centre

That the Lucan/Clondalkin Area Committe proposes that the Community Department, in conjunction with County Dublin VEC Youth and Sports Sub-Committee and CYC, carry out a survey to find out the number of functioning youth organisations in the Lucan and Clondalkin Electoral Areas, and devises a project to promote, amongst parents and young people the setting up of youth organisations, including general Youth Clubs and specialist/single interest groups, such as Twirlirs/Gospel Groups/Adventure Sports Groups, in the context of existibg funding available to the Council and the VEC for youth activities.

• Co.Dublin VEC

That the Manager gives an undertaking to continue the search for a suitable site for a library in Palmerstown given that the area has been next on the list for the provision of a library for many years.

• Mot 15 Palmerstown Library

To ask the Manager to install a few rubbish bins in the Clondalkin Industrial Estate, off Station Road.

• Question 18

To ask the Manager to increase the number of litter bins on Woodford Hill.

• Question 19

To ask the Manager to outline what arrangements are being put in place to ensure that all estates in Lucan, Clondalkin and Palmerstown receive regular street cleaning in the coming year.

• Question 20

To ask the Manager to report upon the number and location of what additional litter bins are planned to be provided by the Council in the next six months within the Lucan, Palmerstown and Clondalkin areas.

• Question 21

To ask the Manager to re-examine what measures can be taken to secure the boundaries of Esker Cemetery to ensure access is only available through the gates.

• Question 22

To ask the Manager if he will request the Litter Wardens to arrange for a number of appropriate activites, including talks and the distribution of promotional literature, promoting good practice in litter disposal, waste management and re-cycling, be offered to students in Palmerstown Community School?

• Question 23

To ask the Manager if any progress has been made in identifying a  posible suitable location for glass and plastic bring banks in the part of Lucan north of the N4?

• Question 24

New Works (if any)

(No Report)

Correspondence

(none received)

Cathaoirleach's Business

 

That the Manager reports upon what progress has been made in putting in place the necessary arrangements I previously requested to allow for the provision of litter bins within housing estates where litter is generated due to schools, shops and sporting facilities being accessed through the estates.

• Motion 16

That more and larger bins are provided at bring centres to cater for disposing of plastic bottles; on many occasions these bins are overflowing and people have to bring their bottles away.

• Motion 17

That the Manager make a statement about the Esker Green re-cycling facility,  about its viability and who may use it?

• Motion 18

That the Manager increases the number of bins throughout the Clondalkin / Lucan area.

• Motion 19

That the Lucan/Clondalkin Area Committee is concerned that the exclusion of landscape gardeners and other garden contractors from the Esker Green Re-cycling Centre may inhibit  environmentally friendly disposal of garden waste in the area and lead to illegal disposal of such waste, and asks the Manager for an up-to-date report on the Council's approach to encouraging re-cycling of green waste by conractors operating in the area.

• Motion 20