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To ask the Manager to update members of this Committee on the planned timeframe for installation of traffic lights at the Hillcrest Road/Newcastle Road junction, noting that members were previously advised that these works were due to be completed before the end of 2009; and to further ask for an update on any related proposals to improve pedestrian safety in this general area?
To ask the Manager when will he secure the “kissing gate” entrance from Riversdale Estate to Waterstown Park, Palmerstown and block-off other entrances used by bikers and quads to gain access to the Park making it highly dangerous for other Park users?
To ask the Manager, further to my question at the October 2009 meeting, to provide an update on proposals to complete the footpath along the east side of Willsbrook Road at the roundabout with Mount Bellew Way and to install a signalised pedestrian crossing on Willsbrook Road at this location, noting that the recent planning application for the adjoining vacant site was refused?
To ask the Manager responsible to have the entrances to Glenaulin Park from the laneway to the rear of Culmore Road, Palmerstown closed to the public as a matter of urgency as there is no good being served by any such entrance and it only provides access to those interested in anti-social behaviour?
To ask the Manager when it is intended to have the footpaths in Palmerstown Village repaired to a safe standard as requested by me on several occasions over the last few years, as they are now even more dangerous since the recent very bad spell of weather?
That this Committee contacts An Post to move the post box in St. Patrick's Estate from the wall on St. Patrick's Road to the front of the estate.
That this Committee calls on the Ministers responsible for Community Affairs; Deputy Eamon O'Cuiv, Minister of Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs and Deputy John Curran, Minister of State to reverse their decision to withdraw funding from the Dolcain Project and the North Clondalkin Community Development Project with immediate effect and invites South Dublin County Council to issue a similar call.
To ask the Manager to have the footpath outside No. 87 The Coppice examined and repaired as soon as possible as it is now very dangerous?
That the Manager report on Community Worker staffing levels for the Lucan and Clondalkin areas now and into the rest of the year.
That this Area Committee:
NOTING the ongoing and pressing need to identify and secure sites for the provision of permanent accommodation for both St. Andrew's NS and Esker Educate Together NS;
FURTHER NOTING that this Council, in response to my previous motions, is currently awaiting a report from the Department of Education detailing their GIS analysis of future school-place requirements, and that this report is likely to conclude that additional school capacity will be in required in the Lucan area in coming years, including ideally an Educate Together second level school as aspired to by the parents of children in Lucan's five Educate Together primary schools;
REQUESTS the Manager to examine and identify appropriate sites, irrespective of ownership, to be proposed for reservation under the new County Development Plan for educational use;
AND FURTHER REQUESTS the Manager, with regards to any identified sites which are in Council ownership, to write to the Minister for Education advising him of the availability of these sites and offering them for disposal.
That this Committee expresses it's full support for any and all efforts to bring forward the development of key elements of physical and community infrastructure proposed under the Adamstown SDZ, as a means of supporting local job creation and delivering significant 'planning gains' for the residents of Adamstown and the Greater Lucan Area.
This Committee therefore requests the Manager to engage with the developers of Adamstown SDZ with a view to pro-actively examining all opportunities for community-led collaboration in expediting, in particular, the delivery of:
- A Community Sports & Aquatic Complex for the accessible use of all residents and families of Adamstown and the Greater Lucan Area;
- An Enterprise Centre to provide physical space such as 'hot-desks' and 'incubator units' for use by local entrepreneurs and business start-ups (including those involved this council's expanding 'Intellectual Enterprise Zone' initiative) as well as providing a base for Lucan Local Employment Services;
- Completion of the planned Loop Road No.2 so as to allow direct access from Dodsboro Road to Newcastle Road, removing rat-running traffic from Hillcrest Estate.
That this Committee removes the grass verge on Newlands Road at the end of New Road, Clondalkin.
To ask the Manager if he will provide a report on the measures undertaken by the Council to treat roads in the Lucan/Clondalkin Electoral Areas with grit/salt during the recent period of cold weather, including information on any measures to make footpaths less slippy, and if he will make a statement on the inter-agency collaboration with An Garda Síochana and the NRA?
That the Manager would provide a briefing to Lucan/Clondalkin Electoral Area Councillors on submissions received from members of the public, businesses, landowners, national and local agencies and other organisations following the recent public display of the Draft County Development Plan.
That this Committee requests South Dublin County Council to develop an Intellectual Enterprise Zone at Grange Castle / Park West / City West etc; for start ups and waive the rates.
That this Committee expresses it's full support for any and all efforts to bring forward the development of key elements of physical and community infrastructure proposed under the Adamstown SDZ, as a means of supporting local job creation and delivering significant 'planning gains' for the residents of Adamstown and the Greater Lucan Area.
This Committee therefore requests the Manager to engage with the developers of Adamstown SDZ with a view to pro-actively examining all opportunities for community-led collaboration in expediting, in particular, the delivery of:
- A Community Sports & Aquatic Complex for the accessible use of all residents and families of Adamstown and the Greater Lucan Area;
- An Enterprise Centre to provide physical space such as 'hot-desks' and 'incubator units' for use by local entrepreneurs and business start-ups (including those involved this council's expanding 'Intellectual Enterprise Zone' initiative) as well as providing a base for Lucan Local Employment Services;
- Completion of the planned Loop Road No.2 so as to allow direct access from Dodsboro Road to Newcastle Road, removing rat-running traffic from Hillcrest Estate.
To ask the Manager for an updated report on the installation of traffic control signals at the entrance to Hillcrest Estate from the Newcastle Road, and if he will advise as to steps taken to address the concerns of parents about the moving of the pedestrian crossing on the Newcastle Road?
That this Committee will under no circumstances allow private management companies to take control of existing / new residential housing estates in the Lucan/Clondalkin areas.
That this Committee calls for practical support for the residents of Moy Glas, Lucan due to the distinct issues they are experiencing.
That the Manager arrange that the footpath between Palmerstown Court and Palmerstown Shopping Centre be repaired and restored to a safe and satisfactory standard as it has been let deteriorate to a totally unacceptable level.