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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF CLONDALKIN AREA COMMITTEE

Wednesday, October 19, 2016

HEADED ITEM NO. 6

Balgaddy Update

REPLY:

In February of this year a report was made to this committee in relation to the number of maintenace requests received for the Balgaddy area and also for a similar area in Tallaght.  They both showed that there were 2.4 requests per household over the period in question.  The committee asked that the report be compiled again and to exclude the Foxdene area from it.

As it is not possible to rerun the original query at this stage a new comparison was made in relation to the number of maintenance requests received in the Balgaddy area (specifically, Meile An Ri, Tor An Ri and Buirg An Ri) to a similar sized area in Tallaght.  The requests are based on a 12 month period between September 2015 and September 2016.  Analysis shows that the Balgaddy estates are running at 2.4 maintenance requests per household per annum compared to 2.5 requests per household per annum in the comparable area of Tallaght.

	No of units	Total Maintenance Requests	Ratio of requests to houses
Balgaddy	360	880	2.4 : 1
Comparable area in Tallaght	343	878	2.5 : 1

Due to scarce staff resources it is not possible to break the requests down any further at this time.