COMHAIRLE CONTAE ÁTHA CLIATH THEAS
SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

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MEETING OF CLONDALKIN AREA COMMITTEE

Wednesday, April 18, 2012

QUESTION NO. 2

QUESTION: Councillor B. Bonner

To ask the Manager is there monitoring being done on the progress of work on the Valhalla site on Watery Lane?  Specifically, is the Manager satisfied that the conditions with regard to boundary treatment are being adhered to?

1. The boundary wall between the Valhalla site and Castle Grove was to be improved and heightened.  Is this being done?

2. Mature trees were to be planted between the site and the houses Castle Grove.  Residents are worried that there will not be enough space and wonder when the tree planting will commence. Can this be checked?

3. The boundary wall between the site and the houses at Watery Lane was to be heightened and improved.  Is this being done?

REPLY:

All works on the site at Valhalla are being monitored and inspected on a regular basis by the Design Team and the Council's Clerk of Works.  The Council's Senior Executive Architect in charge of the project also reports as follows:

1. Following a meeting with the residents of Castle Grove on 4th October 2011 at which the residents stated that they did not want the Council to interfere with the existing boundary wall, the Council's Design Team agreed to build a boundary wall within the Council side of the boundary.  This wall was agreed at 2.4 metres height (measured from the Council side of the boundary).  Work to the wall is almost complete.

2. Compliance with the above request (no.1) has had a subsequent impact on the ability of the Council to carry out replacement planting as early as originally planned in the process and on the type of plants which will be planted (as the area of the site was affected by the new wall and foundation).  It is still the intention of the Council to provide screen/privacy planting to this boundary.  This will be carried out after scaffolding has been removed from the building.  Advice will be sought from the Council's Public Realm Designer at the time.

3. The boundary wall between the site and the rere garden of no. 1 Watery Lane has been upgraded and planting along this boundary will also follow at the appropriate time.