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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

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MEETING OF CLONDALKIN AREA COMMITTEE

Wednesday, December 17, 2014

QUESTION NO. 16

QUESTION: Councillor E. Higgins

To ask the Chief Executive for a report on planning enforcement with respect to Glebe House, Rathcoole, Co. Dublin?

REPLY:

The above site has been the subject of a number of inspections carried out by the Council's Architectural Conservation Officer.

An Endangerment Notice was served on the owners of the above location on 20th May 2011 requiring the following:

"That within a period of 8 weeks from the date on which this Notice comes into effect to carry out the following works before the 17th August 2011

Works Considered Necessary

(i) Remove all external loose items and hazardous debris from the site, including any items that are  in danger of falling such as roof tiles and members.  Any loose roof tiles should be salvaged and suitably stored for their future re-use.

(ii) Reinstate a permanent roof to match the original roof in design, profile and materials as per the original.  Any salvaged material i.e. roof and ridge tiles should be re-used.  Details of how the replacement roof will be constructed and how the existing chimneys will be safeguarded during the roof construction should be submitted to the Planning Authority for its approval, within four weeks of the date of the Notice (i.e. on/before 17th June 2011).

All works shall be undertaken in accordance with best conservation practice, have a reversible impact and not cause undue permanent harm to the existing fabric of the building. On approval you are required to carry out the said measures within a period of 8 weeks from the date the notice comes into effect under Section 62 of the said Act."

Legal Proceedings were initiated in November 2011 for non-compliance with the above Endangerment Notice.  A conviction was granted against the Owners, LBJ Properties Limited, in the District Court on the 4th March 2014, wherein the court ordered that the Endangerment Notice be complied with within 6 months.

The matter remains under investigation by the Planning Authority.