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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

Monday, November 12, 2018

QUESTION NO. 2

QUESTION: Councillor S. Holland

When was this Councils' Traveller Accommodation Plan last reviewed, and what was the outcome?

REPLY:

The Traveller Accommodation Programme 2014-2018 planned accommodation for 96 families in accordance with the Assessment of Needs Survey carried out in 2013. It set out to provide for appropriate options such as Group Housing and Bays in Residential Caravan Parks as well as access to Standard Council Housing.  The Programme identified accomodation provision in three separate sections:

1. New Developments: To provide accommodation at greenfield sites at identified locations;

2. Redevelopments: To redevelop temporary sites or to provide for Group Housing options instead of bays at St. Aidans, Belgard Road and Oldcastle Park;

3. Infill Developments: To create extra bays at locations where family numbers dictate there may be future requirements.

Since the beginning of the current programme three Group Houses have been completed at Belgard Road and a further 7 families were accommodated in Social Housing. The five new group houses at St. Aidan's referred to above are now practically complete and will be allocated imminently.  In addition three families were provided with chalet type accommodation on Medical grounds.

Work has now commenced on the new Traveller Accommodation Programme 2019-2024 and an Assessment of Needs to inform the programme will shortly be carried out.