COMHAIRLE CONTAE ÁTHA CLIATH THEAS
SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

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MEETING OF LUCAN AREA COMMITTEE

Tuesday, June 25, 2013

QUESTION NO. 12

QUESTION: Councillor W. Lavelle

"To ask the Manager for a update on engagement with the Receivers responsible for The Paddocks with respect to the long-standing request by Dodsboro residents to enhance the boundary treatment between The Paddocks building site and Tandys Lane; and to clarify the line which any new boundary fencing should take?"

REPLY:

The Council is currently engaged with both the liquidator and receiver for the former development company Maplewood and is pursuing a site resolution plan involving both parties. The Council cannot utilise the security lodged as the development is not taken in charge and the site is therefore private. However both the liquidator and the receiver have been notified of the security held and met the Council in May to discuss the terms of a draft site resolution plan. This will incorporate boundary treatments. The Council will not be releasing security until various works to bring services to taking in charge standard are completed and will be retaining some security related to the remaining parts of the permitted development to be constructed given that the planning permission for the remainder of phase 2 and of phase 3 is still active

In terms of recent progress the liquidator and receiver last week agreed in writing to the initial step of surveying and costing requirements in relation to all underground services on the site. Tenders are currently being sought for this phase of the site resolution plan. This is a first step in the overall requirement to itemise and cost all works, arrange tenders and contractors etc that both parties have committed to achieving before September 2013. 

If the current level of commitment and cooperation is sustained it is hoped that agreed works may commence in September 2013. The works are focussed on achieving full completion of public services in all parts of the development that are built, not just in Phase 1.