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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF CLONDALKIN AREA COMMITTEE

Wednesday, November 21, 2012

MOTION NO.2

MOTION: Councillor B. Bonner

That the Manager present a report on the boundary treatment at the Valhalla site.  This report to include an update on the time frame for the installation of a boundary treatment in line with what was promised.

REPORT:

All works on the site at Valhalla are being closely monitored and inspected on a regular basis by the Design Team and the Council's Clerk of Works.  

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 complete. 

Compliance with residents' request that the existing boundary wall between the Valhalla site and Castle Grove was not to be interfered with, and the necessity therefore to built a new wall within the Council's boundary 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 its foundation.  Nonetheless it is still the Council's intention to provide screen/privacy to this boundary.  This will be carried out on completion of building works. Advice will be sought from the Council's Public Realm Designer at the time.

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