Minutes of Environment SPC Meeting 8th November 2006

• Minutes of Meeting 08.11.06

To ask the Manager to examine the surface on the boardwalk adjacent to Clondalkin Civic Offices with a view to seeing what can be done to prevent people slipping on it in wet weather?

• Q. 14

Report on End of Life Vehicles

• End of Life Vehicles

To ask that the Manager cuts and rolls the playing pitches adjacent to Knockmitten Community Centre so that they are safe for public use?

• Question No. 12

Report on Sustainability

• Report on Sustainability

To ask the Manager if monies could be made available to install path ways from the Outer Ring Road / Fonthill Road to housing estates such as OakWood Grove.

• Q. 15

Report on Strategic Environmental Assessment of Greater Dublin Strategic Drainage Study Strategy

• Strategic Environmental Assessment of Greater Dublin Strategic Drainage Study

That the Manager writes to the ESB to request the allocation of funding to remove pylons through housing estates in Clondalkin.

• M7 ESB Pylons

"To ask the Manager to examine the laneway between Pinewood Park and Butterfield Park adjacent to Edenbrook Drive which is an a very bad state and to take steps to clean this up?"

• Q. 9

"To ask the Manager to supply a bin or bins at Willowbank Drive?"

• Q. 10

To ask the Manager if he can advise members if there is any precise definition of the term Affordable Home/Affordable Housing in any legislation and or government guidelines relating to affordable housing which specify the selling price of an Affordable Housing Unit relative to the market value of the unit, or if the term Affordable Home/Affordable Housing can have, in terms of price, whatever  meaning that a developer or the Affordable Homes Partnership or the Minister for the Environment wishes the term to have, eg 80% of market value?

• Q7 Affordable Housing

"To ask the Manager to examine the green area at the bottom of Ann Devlin Road where there is a considerable amount of anti-social behaviour and will he consider buidling up the wall at this location or some other method of alleviating the undoubted problem that exists here?"

• Q. 26

To ask the Manager if he will make a report on the disposal/facilitation of disposal by the Council of Affordable Housing units in 2005 and 2006, under Part V and the Sustaining Progress Affordable Homes Initiative,  and if the report can include figures for the average selling price of units of different types (apartments, duplexes, houses) and sizes by location( ie Tallaght, Clondalkin, Lucan, Rathcoole), and how selling prices compare in terms of percentage with market prices of the units? 

• Q8 Affordable Housing

That the Manager bring forward proposals for a theatre in Clondalkin Village.

• mot 13

"To ask the Manager to remove the green scrub/tree stumps on the green area adjacent to Templeroan Avenue?"

• Q. 27

"To ask the Manager to install a light at the junction of Wainsfort Road and Wainsfort Avenue as visibility is poor at this location?"

• Q. 15

"That the Manager furnish a further updated report for discussion regarding the continuing problem of graffiti in the area, and to detail any further action which will be taken to address this serious problem?"

That the Manager present a report on Knockmitten Community Centre addressing the following matters :-

a)  The need to remove the steel container outside.

b)  Surveillance at the Centre and how it operates.

c)  Monitoring of Anti-Social Behaviour.

• mot 15

To ask the Manager to give a detailed report on the work of the authority in implementing the provisions of the Barcelona Declaration in the period since its formal adoption by this Council to include: (a) details on the consultation if any with persons with a disability and disability organisations in implementing the declaration, (b) the range of measures proposed and developed, (c) the budget associated with these measures and the extent to which the annual funding from the National Disability Strategy has been utilised, and (d) the progress made to date on implementation of the Barcelona Declaration?

• Q12 Barcelona Declaration

That the Boot Road rock, positioned on Boot Road/Naas Road be turned around to face traffic coming from the country.