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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF CLONDALKIN AREA COMMITTEE

Wednesday, November 19, 2014

MOTION NO. 17

MOTION: Councillor J. Graham

That this committee requests the Chief Executive to provide a report for discussion at the committee on the ongoing vandalism of front doors, letter boxes, intercoms and communal areas in Balgaddy including data on the scale of the problem, measures being taken to address the problem and ideas for improving the Councils response to this problem in the future.

REPORT:

Vandalism of the doors, surrounding glass and intercoms and the communal areas in Balgaddy is a problem. There are approximately 22 such doors in the area.  Due to the way maintenance requests are recorded it is not possible to provide statistics on these doors without a very intensive manual search of up to 3000 records. 

However when damage to the doors is reported they are fixed.  This is an on-going process. 

Where doors are damaged tenants in the blocks are spoken to and every effort is made to identify those damaging them.  Despite this and also a CCTV camera operating in the area normally it has not been possible to identify the vandals.  However 3 individuals (minors) were identified in June/July and their parents were interviewed and tenancy warnings have been issued.   These individuals have not come to our attention since. Efforts to identify vandals continue 

It is know that a number of doors are damaged at this stage and have not been repaired to date.  they are being examined with a view to preventing such damage in the future.