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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

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MEETING OF RATHFARNHAM/TEMPLEOGUE-TERENURE AREA COMMITTEE

Tuesday, September 11, 2018

QUESTION NO. 8

QUESTION: Councillor E. Murphy

"To ask the Chief Executive can the Council please outline the playspace developments which have occurred in Whitechurch Estate?"

REPLY:

Members of the local community in Whitechurch Estate contacted the community section of SDCC and requested the public realm section provide information and consultation in the Whitechurch Estate with a view to re-engaging in regard to a possible playspace for the area. Since then a number of information meetings, workshops and designs reviews have taken place and a design has emerged for a playspace on the large open space adjacent to the community centre. The design has been subject to changes and amendments to respond to particular concerns in the area. The addition of a footpath to the plans was seen as crucial in terms of encouraging all ages to use the open space and to encourage legitimate, active usages and passive surveillance to areas that have currently low use. The design has been issued for tender for this location and it is expected that construction works will commence in the fourth quarter of 2018.