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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF TALLAGHT AREA COMMITTEE

Monday, February 23, 2015

QUESTION NO.7

QUESTION: Councillor C. O'Connor

"To ask the Chief Executive Officer if any action is open to him under the Derelict Sites Act in respect of the unfinished apartment blocks on Cookstown Road and in reporting will he appreciate the concern of the local community in respect of the issue?"

REPLY:

An Approved Housing Body have recently entered into formal legal contract with the devloper of this site to acquire as a fully completed developemt of 45 residential apartments. On site works for developemnt completion have commenced and the first block of 23 units is scheduled for handover in Q3 2015 and the remaining block of 22 units by year end.  

Upon completion of acquisition of the development by the Approved Housing Body, the 45 residential apartments will be made available for social use in respect of nominations from the Council housing waiting list under a lease Payment & Availability agreement between the Council and Oaklee Housing Trust for which funding approval from the Department of the Environment, Community & Local Government is in place.

The site will continue to be monitored and if deemed appropriate, an inspection under the Derilict Sites Act 1990 can be arranged and subject to inspectors report the necessary enforcement action put in place.