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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

Monday, March 14, 2011

QUESTION NO. 5

QUESTION: Councillor W. Lavelle

To ask the Manager to provide details on any binding pre-2010 Part V agreements entered into with private developers for social and affordable housing units not yet acquired, including details of the location of the development, number and types of units to be acquired and agreed costs per unit?

REPLY:   Legal agreements are in place under Part V arrangements for the provision of social and affordable housing units, not yet acquired, as follows:

Development	Unit description	Date of Agreement	Agreed Cost	Current development status
Tallaght Cross	26 x 1 bed apartments, 41 x 2 bed apartments and 7 x 3 bed apartments.	Sep-08	€15.19m	Development substantially complete. Developer in receivership.
Saggart Lodge, Saggart Village	4 x 2 bed houses and  2 x 3 bed houses	Dec-07	€1.25m	Development substantially complete. Developer in receivership.
New Bancroft, Tallaght	6 x 1 bed apartments and 13 x 2 bed apartments	Jun-08	€3.8m	Development incomplete and works stalled
St Edmunds, Liffey Valley	11 x 1 bed apartments and 46 x 2 bed apartments	Mar - 08	€13m	No works commenced
Stocking Lane, Rathfarnham	20 x 2 bed apartments	Dec-07	€4.6m	No works commenced
Newcastle Lyons, Newcastle	15 x 2 bed apartments	Jul- 07	€3.18m	No works commenced
Airpark, Stocking Lane	7 x 2 bed apartments	Aug-08	€1.58m	Development complete. Acquisition at an advaced stage.
Castlegate, Adamstown	11 x 3 bed apartments	Mar - 08	€2.88m	Development complete

The Council continues to engage with the respective developers and their agents using all available options in efforts to renegotiate previously agreed terms where possible. The named developments continue to be monitored for progress in tandem with the life of the relevant planning permissions.