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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

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MEETING OF LUCAN AREA COMMITTEE

Tuesday, April 28, 2015

QUESTION NO. 26

QUESTION: Councillor G. O'Connell

"To ask the Chief Executive produce a report on the implementation in the Lucan Palmerston Area of the Traveller Accommodation Programme and that he include the number of Travellers, if any, living in unsatisfactory accommodation, the number of Travellers on the waiting list across the County, how many of these currently reside in the Lucan Palmerston Area and that a discussion take place on the Traveller Accommodation Programme."

REPLY:

Details of what is included on the  current Traveller Accommodation Programme  for  the Lucan  / Palmerston area is as follows.

Redevelopments included in the current TAP: 

Development   Type Delivery
Ballyowen Lane 10 Bays Ongoing
Lynch’s Lane 3 Bays 2015

Infill Developments:

Development   Type Delivery
Ballyowen 5 To be determined As required

New developments at agreed locations:

Development   Type Type Delivery
Adamstown x 3 10 x 3 Group houses/bays Part V 2017
         

Number of families living on sites/ group housing schemes in the area –  

Location Bays G/H Soc/Hsg P/R RAS Sharing Illegals Total No Families
                 
Permanent Sites                
Ballyowen 8 1       3    
Kishogue Park 9 0       1    
Lynchs Park 8 0       1    
                 
                 
Emergency sites                
Fonthill Road left 4              
Fonthill Road right 1              
Lock Road 6              
3-Bay L/L 3         1    
                 
                 
Group Housing                
Hayden's Lane G/H   8            
Kishogue Park   10       2    
Lynchs Park   8       0    
Turnpike Lane   3       1    
                 
Totals: 39 30 0 0 0 9   78
                 

No Temporary Sites in Lucan/Palmerston Area

Number of families in Emergency sites in Lucan/Palmerston Area:

Lock Road - 6

Lynchs Lane - 3                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          

Fonthill Road left – 4

Fonthill Road right - 1

Total no. = 14 

Number of families on our waiting list is   80.