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To ask the Manager to provide a report on all road and path upgrades and repairs planned for the Clondalkin LEA, with timelines for commencement and completion, for the remainder of 2013 and for 2014 including works currently underway but yet to be completed?
In order to increase levels of electoral registration in advance of the November 25th deadline the Clondalkin Area Committee recommends that the Manager take the following actions:
- provide electoral registration forms to all community centres, social awlfare offices, HSE health centres, the post office, the social welfare office and other relevant public offices in the Clondalkin LEA
- engage principals of secondary schools, youth services and youth advocacy organisations in the Clondalkin LEA to encourage 18 year olds to register
- engage community organisations in those areas with lower levels of registration and electoral participation with a view to implementing a plan to increase voter registration in these areas
- discuss with Councillors other possible ideas that could, within the short timeframe allowed, increase voter registration.
To ask the Manager to provide a detailed report on ongoing efforts to address anti social behaviour in Balgaddy including the number of reported incidents of anti social behaviour per month for the last 2 years; the number of house visits by staff from the anti social response unit; and a list of all action being taken by SDCC or in conjunction with other agencies to address specific incidents of anti social behaviour and the more general community wide impact of anti social behaviour.
"Following extensive reflection on the plight of the Laneways in Palmerston that preparations be made for the gating of the laneways at Kennelsfort Rd/ The Coppice; Wheatfield Road adjacent to House Number 1, and the laneway linking Wheatfield Road and Glenmaroon Rd to the rear of Turret on a pilot bases and that firm dates for this work be agreed."
PRESENTATION FROM FAI DEVELOPMENT OFFICERS
(H8 - Presentation)
To ask the Manager if he will provide the figures for the number of applications and the number of grants provided for 2011, 2012 and 2013 in the Clondalkin Electoral Area under the 3 Housing Grants Schemes for older people, people with disability/health problems and Mobility Grants?
To ask the Manager if the Council is actively assessing the possibility of providing additional small playgrounds in North Clondalkin, and if he will make a statement on the matter?
To ask the Manager to provide a report on illegal dumping in the Clondalkin LEA detailing the following:
- the number of reports of illegal dumping by the public in 2012 and 2013
- the volume of waste collected in 2012 and 2013
- the cost to the Council arising from illegal dumping in 2012 and 2013
- the number of prosecutions for illegal dumping in 2012 and 2013
- a list of strategies or plans to deal with illegal dumping in 2013 and 2014
- a list of what information is collated by the Council on the issue of illegal dumping and a copy of this information as it related to the Clondalkin LEA?
To ask the Manager to bring forward a report to the December Clondalkin Area Committee detailing all the potential infill housing sites in North Clondalkin ranging from single unit infill sites to 20 unit infill housing sites?
To ask the Manager for an update on the proposed pathway and cycle lane through Alpine Heights/Ashwood estate?
To ask the Manager for an update on Nos 2 and 4 Lealand Walk.
That this Committee supports development of a scheme to facilitate the transfer of small portions of Council lands that;
- Have become hot spots for illegal dumping
- Have become hot spots for anti social behaviour
- Have become badly overgrown with trees & shrubs
- Are no longer accessible to Council staff or the general public
- Have little or no commercial value
The scheme could include an opinion from estate management on the issues outlined above with respect to a specific piece of land; a commitment from the applicant to cover the costs of any construction work arising from the transfer; a commitment from the council to dispose of the land for a nominal fee and to waive legal costs.
In light of the significant work carried out by volunteers of the St Marks Community Garden and the hugely positive impact of this project on an area that was previously a hot spot for illegal dumping an anti social behaviour the Clondalkin Area Committee calls on the Manager to support this valuable project by providing a wheelchair accessible ramp at the entrance to the garden and a small amount of concrete slabs & paving inside the garden the purpose of which is to further enhance this important local amenity.
In light of the high level of anti social behaviour and poor state of the roads, paths and bollards at the junction of St Marks Avenue and Grove the Clondalkin Area Committee calls on the Manager to bring forward a plan to deal with the following problems:
- repair or replacement of the bollards at this junction
- repair damage to the road and path surface at both sides of the junction
The plan, which should involve consultation with those residents who live immediately at the junction, should also explore possibility of enhanced street lighting at the junction.
"That this Committee calls on the Manager to compliment and enhance the initiative "FIX-MY-STREET" and to consider development of an app for smartphones that allows Tallaght residents report problems directly to the Council"
"That the Manager - in recognising the ownership and therefore the responsibility of the Council over the laneway at the rear of Willbrook Park - takes steps to prepare a schedule of regular cleanups and maintenance of this lane way - which has become overgrown; fox-ridden and unsightly; that the Manager outline such a schedule to this Committee - and that this schedule of maintenance be followed until such time as the community aspect of the laneway is finalised to the satisfaction of the local residents and to the members of this Committee - who, for a number of years now have supported the right of the residents to access over this section of the laneway to develop a community garden dimension to the area."
"That the Manager arrange for the Environmental Health Officer to visit the laneway to the rear of Willbrook Park (prior to the Nov. RAC Meeting) and prepare a report for members concerning the state of the laneway from a health and safety viewpoint - particularly with regard to the presence of foxes and rodents - and for the Manager to outline their response to the state of the laneway pending the transfer of its care to local residents - as agreed in several motions to this Committee over a period of more than five years."
Following the review of the Councils Playground Programme can the Manager provide a list of potential sites, with costings, regarding the construction of proposed smaller localised Playground facilities?
"That this Committee commit to the provision of a Skate/BMX Park for the Tallaght area."
"To ask the Manager to outline the priority list of estates in respect of traffic calming measures and to outline what plans the Roads Department has to carry out these measures in the forseeable future; and failing the implementation of traffic calming in specific estates what recourse to other measures do residents have (for example in Prospect Manor estate?)"