Agenda - Lucan Area Committee Meeting 25th September 2012

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Date:
25/09/2012 15:00
Location:
Council Chamber
Standing Orders:

Headed Items

H-I (1)
Submitted by:
Roads Department
Responsibility:
Roads Department

Confirmation and Re-affirmation of Minutes of Meeting of 26th June 2012

Planning

Questions

Qu (1)
Submitted by:
Councillor W. Lavelle
Responsibility:
William Purcell

"To ask the Manager for an update on any discussions which have taken place with the developer of Tullyhall, in response to the issues relating to unfinished development raised in discussions on my motion at the June meeting?"

Qu (2)
Submitted by:
Councillor W. Lavelle
Responsibility:
Karen Kenny

"To ask the Manager for a report on the follow-up to issues relating to pedestrian safety, raised at the on-site meeting at Esker Educate Together, which followed my motion at the April meeting?"

Headed Items

H-I (2)
Submitted by:
Planning Not is use
Responsibility:
Planning Not is use

Planning Files
A. Large Applications Under Consideration (No Business received)
B. Files Requested by Members (No Business received)

H-I (3)
Submitted by:
Planning Not is use
Responsibility:
Paul Hogan, Suzanne Furlong

Notice of Commencement of Part 8

“Planning & Development Act 2000 – 2011 initiation of Part 8 Planning & Development Regulations 2011 to 2012, proposed Part 8 consultation for the construction of a walking and cycling route from Griffeen Road to the R136 at Ballyowen Lucan.

H-I (4)
Submitted by:
Planning Not is use
Responsibility:
Planning Not is use

New Works (No Business)

Correspondence

Cor (1)
Submitted by:
Planning Not is use
Responsibility:
Planning Not is use

Correspondence (No Business)

Motions

Mot (1)
Submitted by:
Councillor E. Tuffy
Responsibility:
Paul Hogan

Cathaoirleach’s Business

"That this Committee supports the recommendations in the Lucan Village Design Statement and requests the Manager to make a report on the recommendations in the Statement and advise the Committee on plans by the Council to implement or progress the recommendations in the immediate future."

Mot (2)
Submitted by:
Councillor E. Higgins
Responsibility:
William Purcell

"That the Manager provide, as per motion 9 at the June ACM, a detailed report on the planning application and conditions of the bungalow at Woodfarm/Red Cow Cottages, with a view to resolving the safety concerns regarding the access road to the side of No. 1 Woodfarm Cottages and corner to the rear."

Mot (3)
Submitted by:
Councillor W. Lavelle
Responsibility:
Paul Hogan

"That this Area Committee recommends that South Dublin County Council initiate a variation of the South Dublin Development Plan as follows:

i) To vary the zoning of the plot of land located between Lucan Educate Together NS & Fforster Square development, as outlined in red on the attached map from Objective A

(residential) to Objective F (open space);

ii) To insert the following specific local objective applying to this plot: “To provide for the development of a Community Garden by local schools and residents in line with Policy

SCR72”

The purpose of this amendment is to dezone a small amount of residential land for the provision of an amenity, as requested by the community, in an already built-up residential area."

MAP

Development

Headed Items

H-I (5)
Submitted by:
Development, Econ. & Transport Planning Dept.
Responsibility:
Development, Econ. & Transport Planning Dept.

New Works (No Business)

Correspondence

Cor (2)
Submitted by:
Development, Econ. & Transport Planning Dept.
Responsibility:
Development, Econ. & Transport Planning Dept.

Correspondence (No Business)

Motions

Mot (4)
Submitted by:
Development, Econ. & Transport Planning Dept.
Responsibility:
Development, Econ. & Transport Planning Dept.

Cathaoirleach’s Business (No Business Received)

Libraries

Headed Items

H-I (6)
Submitted by:
Libraries
Responsibility:
Georgina Byrne

Library News & Events

H-I (7)
Submitted by:
Libraries
Responsibility:
Libraries

NEW WORKS (No Business)

Correspondence

Cor (3)
Submitted by:
Libraries
Responsibility:
Libraries

Correspondence (No Business)

Motions

Mot (5)
Submitted by:
Libraries
Responsibility:
Libraries

Cathaoirleach’s Business (No Business Received)

Corporate

Headed Items

H-I (8)
Submitted by:
Corporate Performance and Change Management Directorate
Responsibility:
Corporate Performance and Change Management Directorate

New Works (No Business)

Correspondence

Cor (4)
Submitted by:
Corporate Performance and Change Management Directorate
Responsibility:
Corporate Performance and Change Management Directorate

Correspondence (No Business)

Motions

Mot (6)
Submitted by:
Corporate Performance and Change Management Directorate
Responsibility:
Corporate Performance and Change Management Directorate

Cathaoirleach’s Business (No Business Received)

Housing

Questions

Qu (3)
Submitted by:
Councillor E. Tuffy
Responsibility:
Eddie Conroy

"To ask the Manager if she will make a report on any assessment by the Council of the condition of the boundary wall of a property (name of house supplied) on Esker Hill, Lucan, adjacent to the VEC, Lucan LIFE Centre, and if the Council has found that the wall is at risk of collapse, and if so can the Council arrange for necessary repairs to be carried out as soon as possible and subsequently recover the cost of the repairs from the registered owner?"

Qu (4)
Submitted by:
Councillor E. Tuffy
Responsibility:
Michael Fagan

"To ask the Manager to provide a report on the number of applicants, with current addresses in the Lucan EA, for housing by SDCC and if she will also give information on the number of individuals/families currently SDCC tenants/RAS tenants who are seeking transfers into SDCC housing in the Lucan EA?"

Headed Items

H-I (9)
Submitted by:
Housing Administration
Responsibility:
Brendan Hynes, Breda Fogarty, Marian Jordan

The Housing Construction and Procurement Report

H-I (10)
Submitted by:
Housing Administration
Responsibility:
Hugh Hogan

SUPREME COURT JUDGEMENT ON SECTION 62 OF THE HOUSING ACT, 1966

H-I (11)
Submitted by:
Housing Administration
Responsibility:
Housing Administration

New Works (No Business)

Correspondence

Cor (5)
Submitted by:
Housing Administration
Responsibility:
Housing Administration

Correspondence (No Business)

Motions

Mot (7)
Submitted by:
Housing Administration
Responsibility:
Housing Administration

Cathaoirleach’s Business (No Business Received)

Community

Questions

Qu (5)
Submitted by:
Councillor E. Tuffy
Responsibility:
Willie Sheils

"To ask the Manager if she will make a report on the Council's involvement in the new Community Centre in Palmerston?"

Qu (6)
Submitted by:
Councillor E. Tuffy
Responsibility:
Willie Sheils

"To ask the Manager if she will make a report on the project in Palmerston involving TUAs workers?"

Headed Items

H-I (12)
Submitted by:
Community Services
Responsibility:
Community Services

Application for Grants

H-I (13)
Submitted by:
Community Services
Responsibility:
Community Services

New Works (No Business)

Correspondence

Cor (6)
Submitted by:
Community Services
Responsibility:
Community Services

Correspondence (No Business)

Motions

Mot (8)
Submitted by:
Councillor E. Tuffy
Responsibility:
Willie Sheils

Cathaoirleach's Business

"That the Manager would contact the Trustees of the Muinter na Tire premises in Lucan Village to explore options through which the Council could work with/assist the Trustees in ensuring that the premises is available for use as a community facility for the residents of Lucan and their organizations."

Mot (9)
Submitted by:
Councillor W. Lavelle
Responsibility:
Willie Sheils

"That this Committee, further to my previous motions, requests the Manager to provide a detailed update on the survey of community space requirements in the Lucan area; to report on proposals to address the deficit in indoor community space in Lucan; and to report on the feasibility of providing a community sports hall as part of the proposed Lucan South Community College development."

Mot (10)
Submitted by:
Councillor E. Tuffy
Responsibility:
Willie Sheils

"That this Committee has the view that the Lucan Electoral Area is disadvantaged, compared to other Electoral Areas in the County, in the provision for residents of community facilities (it has no Civic Centre, no Council Swimming Pool, only one Sports and Leisure Centre) and requests the Manager to provide a report on Council owned /supported community and sports facilities in the Lucan Electoral Area, and requests the Manager to pursue every possible avenue, including negotians with NAMA, to provide a Community Sports Hall at Adamstown Community College."

Environment

Questions

Qu (7)
Submitted by:
Councillor W. Lavelle
Responsibility:
Maire Ni Dhomhnaill

"To ask the Manager to ensure that the highly dangerous Halloween bonfire on the embankment between Droim Na Coille and the Traveller accommodation site, adjoining Grange Castle Road, is not permitted to take place this year?"

Qu (8)
Submitted by:
Councillor E. Tuffy
Responsibility:
Maire Ni Dhomhnaill

"To ask the Manager if she will convey the compliments of the Lucan Area Committee to Maire ni Dhomhnaill and her colleagues on their work in promoting participation in the national Tidy Towns Committee by villages and other areas in the County to participate in the national Tidy Towns competition?"

Headed Items

H-I (14)
Submitted by:
Environmental Services
Responsibility:
Maire Ni Dhomhnaill

CODE OF PRACTICE ON ELECTION POSTERS IN SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY

H-I (15)
Submitted by:
Environmental Services
Responsibility:
Environmental Services

New Works (No Business)

Correspondence

Cor (7)
Submitted by:
Environmental Services
Responsibility:
Environmental Services

Correspondence (No Business)

Motions

Mot (11)
Submitted by:
Councillor E. Tuffy
Responsibility:
Maire Ni Dhomhnaill

Cathaoirleach's Business

"That this Committee congratulates the Lucan Tidy Towns Committee on its success in Lucan again winning its Category Award in South Dublin in the national Tidy Towns Competition, and further compliments the LTTC in the work it has done, in collaboration with the Council, in encouraging other areas in the Lucan and Clondalkin Electoral Areas to enter the national Tidy Towns competition."

Mot (12)
Submitted by:
Councillor E. Higgins
Responsibility:
Maire Ni Dhomhnaill

"That this Committee congratulates members of the Tidy Towns Committees in Lucan and Palmerston on their fantastic efforts in this year’s competition and acknowledges the hard work of the Council staff, including Máire Ní Dhomhnaill and her team, who supported and encouraged these groups.  Furthermore, that the Manager present a report on this years competition to include the identification of recommendations from the Tidy Towns Report which can be acted on in the next year."

Mot (13)
Submitted by:
Councillor W. Lavelle
Responsibility:
Maire Ni Dhomhnaill

"That this Committee congratulates Lucan Village and Griffeen on their performance in the 2012 Tidy Towns competition; and requests the Manager to review the 2012 adjudication reports and to present a report on measures which this Council can progress to support both areas’ Tidy Towns efforts in 2013."

Parks

Questions

Qu (9)
Submitted by:
Councillor W. Lavelle
Responsibility:
David Fennell

"To ask the Manager for an update on residents’ previous request to secure implementation of Specific Local Objective 25 of the County Development Plan 2010-2016, i.e. to "facilitate completion of the boundary fence that separates Bewley Grove and Mount Bellew Way running eastwards as far as the Outer Ring Road” and to include a new pedestrian entrance in the railings (and footpath across the green area) at the northern end of Bewley Grove?"

Headed Items

H-I (16)
Submitted by:
Parks Department
Responsibility:
Parks Department

New Works (No Business)

Correspondence

Cor (8)
Submitted by:
Parks Department
Responsibility:
Parks Department

Correspondence (No Business)

Motions

Mot (14)
Submitted by:
Parks Department
Responsibility:
Parks Department

Cathaoirleach’s Business (No Business Received)

Mot (15)
Submitted by:
Councillor E. Higgins
Responsibility:
David Fennell

"That the Manager provide a report on the grass cutting of Palmerstown FCs pitches on Mill Lane and provide assurances that these pitches will be maintained by the Council going forward."

Mot (16)
Submitted by:
Councillor W. Lavelle
Responsibility:
Michael Hannon

"That this Committee expresses its deep dismay that the open-space along the access road from Griffeen Avenue to Rossberry, Tullyhall & Haydens Park estate has not yet been taken-in-charge; requests a detailed report on both the status of negotiations regarding this matter and on the options available to the Council to secure the financing of the work required for preparations of necessary legal documentation; and further requests that Council management, at the highest level, give this matter priority attention."

Mot (17)
Submitted by:
Councillor E. Higgins
Responsibility:
David Fennell

"That the Manager would congratulate Council staff on the installation of exercise equipment in three parks in the area."

Roads

Questions

Qu (10)
Submitted by:
Councillor W. Lavelle
Responsibility:
John McLoughlin

"To ask the Manager for a detailed update on the design work for the Willsbrook Road cycle route scheme; to advise if crossings at the Castle Road roundabout are to be included as requested by local schools and parents; and to provide a further response to the issues raised in discussions on my motion at the June meeting relating to traffic lanes approaching the Grange Castle Road junction?"

Qu (11)
Submitted by:
Councillor W. Lavelle
Responsibility:
John McLoughlin

"To ask the Manager for a report on the follow-up to issues raised at on-site meetings at the Ballydowd and Newcastle Road interchanges which were requested and agreed to during discussions on my motion at the June meeting?"

Qu (12)
Submitted by:
Councillor E. Tuffy
Responsibility:
Tony O Grady

"To ask the Manager if she will arrange for the Roads Department to inspect the state of the footpaths outside the Muinter na Tire premises in Lucan Village and arrange for repairs to be carried out where there is a risk to pedestrians because of faults in the footpath?"

Qu (13)
Submitted by:
Councillor E. Tuffy
Responsibility:
John McLoughlin

"To ask the Manager if she will make a report on the arrangements/regulations in place to provide Parking Permits for Businesses in Lucan Village?"

Headed Items

H-I (17)
Submitted by:
Roads Department
Responsibility:
Roads Department

Proposed Declaration of Roads to be Public Roads

Station Road (part of)

H-I (18)
Submitted by:
Roads Department
Responsibility:
Roads Department

New Works (No Business)

Correspondence

Cor (9)
Submitted by:
Roads Department
Responsibility:
Roads Department

Correspondence (No Business)

Motions

Mot (18)
Submitted by:
Roads Department
Responsibility:
Roads Department

Cathaoirleach’s Business (No Business Received)

Mot (19)
Submitted by:
Councillor E. Tuffy
Responsibility:
John McLoughlin

Cathaoirleach's Business

"That this Committee notes that the Council is reviewing the Pay Parking Bye-Laws in the County and proposes that the each household in Sarsfield Park and Lucan Village be allocated a free (Zero charge) Resident Permit, 1 free visitor permit (with the house number /address of the householder identified on the permit) and a second or subsequent visitor permit at a cost of 20 Euro."

Mot (20)
Submitted by:
Councillor W. Lavelle
Responsibility:
John McLoughlin

"That this Area Committee, further to previous repeated discussions on this matter, expresses its disappointment that the Planning Authority, in granting permission to application SD12A/0115 for construction of a new primary school at St. Edmundsbury, failed not only to require implementation of measures to improve the efficiency and safety of junctions at Chalet Gardens and Roselawn, but more worryingly failed to require that any junction assessments to be carried out and therefore requests the Road Department to:

  • Firstly conduct its own assessment of the Lucan Road - Chalet Gardens junction, based on the traffic count data provided in the  appendix to the submitted Traffic Report [noting in particular that 113 vehicles leave Chalet Gardens (movements 3 &4) in the 8:30-9:15 peak AM period] and to take account of the impact of the proposed creation of new turning lanes on Lucan Road;
  • Secondly conducts a separate traffic count and assessment of the Lucan Road - Roselawn junction, to include assessment of traffic generated by Coláiste Phadraig secondary school and to take account of the impact of the proposed creation of new turning lanes on Lucan Road;
  • Thirdly, brings a report back to this Area Committee within three months on the findings of these junction assessments with recommendations, if appropriate, for measures to improve the efficiency and safety of these junctions."
Mot (21)
Submitted by:
Councillor E. Tuffy
Responsibility:
LPNC Meeting Administration

"That the Lucan Area Committee, noting the decision of the Government, to merge the CPLN and DVP Area Based Partnerships, registers its support for the work of CPLN in the Lucan Electoral Area, and requests the Manager to write to the Department of Environment, Community and Local Government, conveying the view of the Committee that it supports the work of CPLN and is of the view that any proposed merger should protect specific projects of CPLN in the Lucan EA, the presence, in terms of location of Partnersrhip and project staff in the CPLN Area, and ensure that the services  provided for communities in the CPLN area, including the Lucan EA, are continued."

Mot (22)
Submitted by:
Councillor W. Lavelle
Responsibility:
John McLoughlin

"That this Committee requests the Manager, in seeking future NTA funding, to prioritise measures to improve pedestrian and cycle activity, in particular among school-aged children, along Grange Castle Road between Willsbrook/Ballyowen and Lucan Road junctions, including provision of guard-railing at the footpath edge outside Hermitage & Ballyowen Park estates."

Water & Drainage

Headed Items

H-I (19)
Submitted by:
Water & Drainage
Responsibility:
Kenneth Clayton

PART 8 APPLICATION FOR THE PHASE 2 UPGRADE OF QUARRYVALE PUMP STATION

H-I (20)
Submitted by:
Water & Drainage
Responsibility:
Water & Drainage

New Works (No Business)

Correspondence

Cor (10)
Submitted by:
Water & Drainage
Responsibility:
Water & Drainage

Correspondence (No Business)

Motions

Mot (23)
Submitted by:
Water & Drainage
Responsibility:
Water & Drainage

Cathaoirleach’s Business (No Business Received)