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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

Monday, June 13, 2011

QUESTION NO. 18

QUESTION: Councillor W. Lavelle

To ask the Manager to provide a detailed update on this council's applications under the ‘Structures at Risk’ fund?

REPLY:

A notification went out to all Councils on the 6^th April 2011 in relation to details of The Structures at Risk Fund 2011 a limited fund (€650,000 nationally) which the Department of the Environment Heritage and Local Government approved for the conservation and protection of Protected structures i.e. those structures included in the Record of Protected Structures of the Planning Authorities; and Structures in Architectural Conservation Areas. Those applications received were assessed and evaluated by the Council's Conservation Officer and two no. applications were submitted to the DOEHLG on 27^th April 2011. The scheme is limited to two applications per County Council which will then be assessed and prioritised as part of a national process by the Department before funding is approved. 

The Conservation Officer contacted the Department on the day of the closing date for applications to confirm receipt of the applications submitted by SDCC and to ascertain when a decision would be due on funding.  The Conservation Officer received a phone call from the Department on 9^th May 2011 confirming that the assessment of applications would commence mid May and a decision would be due in early June 2011.  A letter was received from the Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht on 2nd June 2011 confirming that a grant of €20,000 has been allocated to faciliatate the necessary remedial repair and conservation work to Palmerston Weir which was one of the grant applications submitted to the Department under the Structures at Risk Fund 2011.