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Proposed Initiation of Procedure to Extinguishment the Public Right of Way on land at the front of 1 Sylvan Drive, Kingswood, Tallaght, Dublin 24.
That this committee supports the hosting of an informal reception for the two students, Matthew Carpenter and Karl Ussher who were hailed as heroes by local papers and the public at large for intervening in the attack on a bus driver in Cork street on the weekend of the 11th January and the matter be discussed.
Quarterly Anti Social Behaviour Report
Cathaoirleach's Business.
That the Manager would provide an up-to-date report for discussion on the Council's efforts to have the Liffey Valley lands, including at St. Edmundsbury, Woodville and Fonthill, preserved against housing development. Following the passing of my Motions, including at the June 2008 Planning Department Meeting: "That this Committee requests the Manager to write to the Minister for the Environment and Local Government requesting the Minister to make a Ministerial Order, under Section 202 of the Planning and Development Act 2000, to make further Special Amenity Area Order(s) to preserve the Liffey Valley Lands in South Dublin, including at St. Edmundsbury and Woodville, particularly in view of the unanimous decision of South Dublin County Council expressed in the Motion passed in South Dublin County Council on 10th March 2008, including “it is wholly undesirable that any future housing developments take place in the Liffey Valley, including at St. Edmundsbury and Woodville, that would undoubtedly further damage the Liffey Valley Park as did, for example, the earlier housing developments at Laraghcon”, in the interest of the preservation of these lands, and that this Committee also requests the Manager to specifically emphasise in this letter to the Minister the urgency of this request and specify in the request that this Ministerial Order for further Special Amenity Area Order(s) to preserve the Liffey Valley Lands, including at St. Edmundsbury and Woodville, is made prior to the commencement of the Review of the next County Development Plan, scheduled to commence in November 2008", this Council has since been requested by the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government by correspondents dated 10th September 2008, to carry out an evaluation of the lands between Palmerstown and Lucan Bridge in order to access the suitability of these lands for designation under the Special Amenity Area Order - would the Manager report on progress on this matter given the urgency as outlined in my repeated representations? This Committee requests the Manager to contact the Minister requesting that he exercise his powers and issue the appropriate order as a matter of urgency to preserve the Liffey Valley lands?
To ask the Manager if he will advise the Lucan Clondalkin Area Committee of the Council's plans to provide community facilities, including community centres and play facilities for children in the Council's housing development at Balgaddy?
To ask the Manager if he can provide members with information on any lands/properties in the Lucan-Clondalkin Electoral Areas, which the Council has completed disposal of in 2008 (apart from small disposals to individual householders), and if he can advise of the monies realised from such disposals?
To ask the Manager for a report on the consultative phase of the review of the County Development Plan and to include in the report a summary of the numbers attending and issues raised?
To ask the Manager if there has been any request from the Department of Education and Science to purchase a piece of Council owned land for the purpose of providing a site for the proposed Lucan South 2nd Level School. following the site meeting in December 2008 between Department and Council officials, and if he will make a statement on the matter?
To ask the Manager to present a detailed report for discussion on the School Transportation Scheme proposed by this Council's Strategic Policy Committee on Transportation and adopted by South Dublin County Council? Would the Manager not agree that School Transportation is the best way forward in combating the increased traffic congestion on our roads, particularly at school times, the growing car congestion at schools, often in residential estates, owing to the great number of parents who have to resort to driving children and students to school, and the increased demands and stresses on parents at school times? This Committee now requests the Manager to again ask the Government to provide funding for South Dublin's School Transportation Pilot Project, that itself could be a viable pilot project for School Transportation in the greater Dublin region?
“To ask the Manager to state the total number of dumping instances that have been brought to the attention of the litter warden section along Daletree Road over the past three months, if he can confirm that some of the dumped material was set alight over the Christmas period, and the total number of legal proceedings which South Dublin County Council is in the process of taking against those involved in this activity, where an investigation of the material has occurred, if the escalating problem of dumping at this location has been brought to the attention of the Council by the local community, and if he can confirm that the CCTV system promised to be introduced close to the social housing units at Daletree have now been installed by the Council in respect of monitoring illegal activity so that the local authority can take action, and if he will make a statement on the matter?”
To ask the Manager if there have been any recent pre-planning meetings with the owners of the lands covered by the Liffey Valley Local Area Plan, if any planning applications are imminent,and if he will make a statement on the matter?
Cathaoirleach's Business
No Business
To ask the Manager if the issues I raised in June (that the Council address the run down state of the roadway and footpaths bordering and within Roselawn Estate, Ballydowd) have been included in the 2009 works programme as indicated in the Manager’s report in June?
To ask the Manager to prepare a report on the proposed Park and Ride on the N4 and if, given the decision of An Bord Pleanála, an alternative site has been identified and what the Council now intends to do to alleviate the congestion on the N4 and Lucan Village?
To ask the Manager for an updated report on the proposed NRA consultancy study on the possibility of providing a grade separated junction at the Kennelsfort Road/N4 junction, and if he will make a statement on the matter?
To request the Manger to provide an updated report on the maintenance by the N4 upgrade contractor of the central median on the N4, between the M50 roundabout and the Leixlip N4 Interchange, and also the maintenance of the verges on both sides of the N4, particularly in the vicinity of the overbridge just to the east of the Woodies interchange (outside Mount Andrew Estate), which has been in an unsatisfactory state for some time?
To ask the Manager what actions the Council's Roads Department has taken to maintain the central median on the N4, between the Dublin City/South Dublin boundary and the M50/N4 roundabout?
Cathaoirleach's Business
No Business
That this Committee requests the Manager to consider the promotion of a heritage trail in Lucan, following the publication of the Lucan Village Design Statement, which would involve the placing of a series of plaques revealing the histories of properties and sites of importance to the heritage of Lucan.
That this Committe requests the Manger to investigate the possibility of the Council entering agreements with the owners of developments in the Lucan-Clondalkin Electoral Areas, where construction work has been paused due to lack of demand in the private housing market, through which the Council could acquire properties for allocation as Social Housing to families on the Council's Housing List, and if he will make a statement on the feasibility of such an initiative?