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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

Monday, October 17, 2016

QUESTION NO.6

QUESTION: Councillor W. Lavelle

To ask the Chief Executive to provide a revised timetable for the Pavilions Programme and to advise on whether revised Part 8 planning proposals will need to be prepared and considered?

REPLY:

The pavilions project was predicated on the use of a rolling programme of pavilions of similar design large enough to create a critical mass that would attract pre-fabrication contractors to tender on a Design-Build basis.  The approach had been piloted at TASC pavilion Limekiln with a good result.  The advantages were seen as the reduction in design time and cost, the harnessing of innovation from the prefabricated sector and a considerable reduction in construction time on site.  The tender was publicly advertised but received a very limited response: no submission met the tender requirements.  Costs tendered were very high and quality disappointingly low throughout the submissions.  There appears to be no appetite for a programme based on prefabrication as envisaged and it will now require a new approach.  A design-build approach based on more traditional construction has proved successful on the Clondalkin Equine project and it is proposed to use this approach to tender the sports pavilion and car-park in Oldbawn.  If this proves successful it can be expanded to address the other pavilions originally included in the programme. This tender will issue in the coming weeks.

In light of the proximity of the pavilion approved for Griffeen Park to the site for the proposed Swimming-pool and the planned upgrade of the children's playground, the site for the pavilion will be reviewed.  If there are advantages to its relocation this will be brought back to Elected Members before the Part 8 proposal is considered.