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That this Committee requests the Development Department to write to the IDA seeking priority promotional activity by the agency in seeking inward investment projects for Grange Castle Business Park, in view of the seriously worsening unemployment situation in the Clondalkin/Lucan area and in South Dublin as a whole.
That the Manager would provide an up-to-date and detailed report following my earlier request for consideration to be give to the establishing of the Lucan Town Council. Given that Lucan is the fastest developing community in Ireland, would the Manager agree that the establishing of the Lucan Town Council would be of significant benefit to the local community.
To ask the Manager if he will write to An Garda Síochana, Ronanstown Station, conveying the concerns of this Committee about recent increases in anti-social behaviour and intimidation of residents in Shancastle Estate, Clondalkin and request An Garda Síochana to review the policing service to the people of the area with a view to increasing their feelings of security in their own homes and their neighbourhood?
To ask the Manager to report in detail on the road and footpath drainage works carried out on Chapel Hill, Lucan, below the steps from St. Mary's Church Car Park. Despite these works, local residents, including many senior citizens, are still reporting that the footpath at this location remains the cause of safety concerns and inconvenience owing to regular muddy water on this footpath.
To ask the Manager to examine the recently erected (Gantry) signposts on the M50 and N4 and to state if they give adequate indications to motorists as to which lane to enter if they are to safely transfer from one road to another? I have received a lot of complaints that the signage is misleading. I have personally witnessed a significant number of motorists doing a U turn at Kennelsfort Road having found themselves in the wrong lane and thence on the wrong road. I have also seen cars switch lanes in a most dangerous manner in an effort to get onto the correct slip road at the Palmerstown intersection.
That the Manager would provide an up-to-date and detailed report following my earlier request for consideration to be give to the establishing of the Lucan Town Council. Given that Lucan is the fastest developing community in Ireland, would the Manager agree that the establishing of the Lucan Town Council would be of significant benefit to the local community?
That the Council enter negotiations with Siac in relation to the library extension on behalf of the four local residents associations.
Presentation on Planning Enforcement
Report on Greenhills allotments
Cathaoirleach's Business
That the Manager would report on what progress has been made on the provision of the Lucan South Secondary School, which has been the subject of my extended representations, and in particular my Motion to the September '08 Planning Department Meeting of the Lucan/Clondalkin Area Committee. Specifically would the Manager report on what recent communications have been made to/received from the Department of Education and Science on:
a. The options for the site for this second-level school, and
b. My recommendation for the fast-tracking of the building, including possible temporary building options,as discussed at the September 2008 Planning Department Meeting.
To ask the Manager to have the grass growth along the back lanes in Palmerstown removed and treated to prevent future growth?
That this Committee congratulates Supt. Pat Clavin and his colleagues in Q District of An Garda Síochana on the very successful International Community Open Day held at Lucan Garda Station on 27th September 2008, and recommends to the Manager that the Community Services Department of the Council liaise with the Garda authorities on possible participation by the Council, by way of sourcing additional venue space in Lucan etc., with An Garda Síochana in a similar event in 2009.
That the Manager would present a report on the Ninth Lock House advising; have there been any planning applications? Is / was this house on the Derelict Register also are any of the trees and or walls, buildings at the back of Cappaghmore between the estate and the station, protected structures or on any Derelict Register?
Cathaoirleach's Business
That the Manager would provide an up-to-date and detailed report following my earlier request for consideration to be give to the establishing of the Lucan Town Council. Given that Lucan is the fastest developing community in Ireland, would the Manager agree that the establishing of the Lucan Town Council would be of significant benefit to the local community?
That the Council enter negotiations with Siac in relation to the library extension on behalf of the four local residents associations.
This Committee requests the Manager to seek any helpful information from An Bord Pleanála as to when the decision on the Clonburris SDZ can be expected. Given the lengthy period since the Oral Hearing on Clonburris, and since the Board has not been able to make a decision within the scheduled eighteen week period, nor within the revised date of 2nd September 2008, nor within the further target date of 2nd September 2008, any additional information would be appreciated by this Area Committee.
That this Area Committee calls on the Manager to initiate the process for the development of the proposed Liffey Valley National Park, in tandem with the extension of the SAAO as directed by the Minister for the Envirionemnt, and as provided for in the Current County Development Plan.
That this Committee supports the parents of staff of St. Brigid's Girls National School, Palmerstown and Gaelscoil na Camoige, Clondalkin in their demands for improved school accommodation, deplores the exclusion of both schools from the recently published list of school building and school renovation projects and requests the Manager to write to the Minister for Education calling for the inclusion of the two schools in the relevant school capital projects.
To ask the Manager for a progress report on the N4 Project, including anticipated completion dates, particularly in respect of the N4/Adamstown Road junction?
To ask the Manager if the Traffic Management Section would arrange for a traffic count to be carried out on Griffeen Avenue, Lucan between the junction with Griffeen Road and the junction with Hayden's Lane, to ascertain if traffic numbers warrant a pedestrian crossing/ crossings at a point/points along the Avenue, as pedestrian traffic in the area has increased in recent months with the opening of the new Educate Together Primary School, the growth in numbers at Griffeen Valley Educate Together Primary school, the opening of the Youth Services Centre and additional commercial outlets in the Griffeen Centre?