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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL
MEETING OF LUCAN AREA COMMITTEE
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
MOTION NO 13.
MOTION: Councillor E. Tuffy
Cathaoirleach's Business
That the Lucan Area Committee, noting that at the meeting of 13th December 2010 the Council unanimously supported, by 24 votes to nil, the Disposal to the Department of Education and Skills of the lands at Esker Lane, Lucan on which the former Green Recycling Centre and the existing Parks Depot are located, recognising the critical accommodation needs of Esker Educate Together National School and the urgency of facilitating progress on the planning and construction of a permanent school building for that school on part of the Esker Lane site, and having regard to the issues and concerns involved in identifying a suitable site on Council owned lands in the Lucan area for the building of a replacement Parks Depot, as provided for in the Disposal proposal, hereby proposes that the Manager, in his evaluation of potential Parks Depot site locations, takes into account the existing completed residential and other development of the Lucan area, the anticipated longer term development in the area, including on the lands within the Clonburris and Adamstown SDZs, and as soon as possible formulates a plan and proposal to locate the replacement Parks Depot on Council lands immediately south of the Kildare Route railway line, these lands already having being identified by the Council as part of Griffeen Valley Park.
REPORT:
Arising from a request from the Department of Education and Skills to provide a school for Esker Educate Together on the Council's Parks Depot at Esker, a number of sites where examined in the Lucan/Esker area to facilitate the existing depot's relocation.
The Council at its meeting on 13th December 2010 agreed the disposal of the Council's Parks Depot at Esker to the Department of Education and Skills and also noted the proposal to initiate the Part 8 procedure for the relocation of the depot to a site within Griffeen Valley Regional Park, this site being the most suitable from an operational/efficiency point of view. The proposal also facilitated the provision of changing rooms and visitors centre. While this site is still the preferred site and presents the best location for parks services to the communities of Lucan, Esker and North Clondalkin, the Council is aware of substantial opposition to the proposal.
The Council is still committed to facilitating the Department of Education and Skills, subject to the necessary approvals, and as requested is reviewing all option sites including their positive and negative impacts with a view to briefing the Area Members and the Elected Council.