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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF CLONDALKIN AREA COMMITTEE

Wednesday, September 19, 2012

MOTION NO. 13

MOTION: Councillor B. Bonner

This Committee resolves that the Council would engage with the owners of the six vacant and derelict properties in St Brigid's Cottages, (The Ranch), Naas Road, Clondalkin (Addresses supplied) to ensure that the problems associated with these derelict cottages would be addressed.   The existence of such a high number of derelict properties in such a small scheme is having a serious effect on the quality of life of the remaining residents.  There is serious littering and fly tipping in the gardens of the unoccupied properties; there is ongoing antisocial behaviour in the properties and their gardens;  the gardens are in a terrible state, hideously overgrown with awful trees shading the whole area;  an adjoining house is being affected by the damp and dereliction of one of the properties.

This committee resolves that the council uses it's powers in relation to derelict properties to address this unacceptable situation.

REPORT:

Three  of the properties identified were last inspected under the Derelict Sites Act on the l6th July 2012 with no works recommended to render the site non derelict  by the Area Engineer at that time.  Follow-up inspections have now been requested.    Further, inaugural inspections have been carried out of the three remaining properties identified in this motion.   If, deemed required, following inspection and on the recommendation of the Area Engineer, a notice pursuant to Section ll of the Derelict Sites Act , requiring the owner/s of these sites to carry out such works as to prevent the sites from becoming derelict, will be served.

The Council's Litter Warden service has and continues to monitor this area closely;  however, no evidence has to date been found in any of the vacant properties identified to support enforcement under the Litter Pollution Act, 1997.