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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

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MEETING OF CLONDALKIN AREA COMMITTEE

Wednesday, May 18, 2016

QUESTION NO. 9

QUESTION: Councillor B. Bonner

"Residents in Newlands, Clondalkin, ask that the green space adjoining  the boundary between Newlands estate and Joel's / The Louis Fitzgerald Hotel would be landscaped and improved as was promised at the time the hotel was granted planning permission."

REPLY:

Planning permission was granted by SDCC (Register Reference SD10A/0082) on 13th July 2010 for ‘retention and continuation of use of the side passage as a pedestrian access for patrons only to Joels Restaurant including the associated gate in the boundary with Joels Restaurant and permission for associated boundary treatment including a 1.2 metre rendered and capped wall for the full length of the boundary with the open space area’.

Condition 4 of the permission required the following:

‘Prior to commencement of works on site, a planting scheme for the proposed boundary wall with the open space area shall be submitted to and approved in writing by the Planning Authority. The planting scheme shall include schedules of plants noting species, plant sizes, the proposed numbers and densities and an implementation programme. All plants supplied shall comply with the requirements of British Standard 3936, Specification for Nursery Stock. Any shrub planted in accordance with this condition which are removed, die, become severely damaged or become seriously diseased within five years of planting shall be replaced within the next planting season by plants of similar size and species to those originally required to be planted.

Reason: To ensure appropriate landscaping of the site in the interest of visual and residential amenity’

There is no record of any submission to comply with the above condition.

No formal complaint in relation to this condition has been received by the Planning Department’s Enforcement Section.

There were two previous Enforcement complaints relating to this location.  Both complaints have been resolved to the satisfaction of the Planning Authority and the relevant files have been closed.