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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF CLONDALKIN AREA COMMITTEE

Wednesday, November 21, 2018

MOTION NO. 16

MOTION: Councillor M. Ward

"That this Area Committee agrees that the Chief Executive provide a report on the play space programme for North Clondalkin for discussion and that any monies left over in the programme is ring fenced for the already agreed play space in Collinstown Park."

REPORT:

The Playground Construction Programme 2014-2018 is coming to an end. For the Clondalkin electoral area it is intended to complete a play area at Collinstown Park.

Boot Road was also considered but did not progress; it is intended to spend the money intended for Boot Road on upgrading existing play facilities within the North Clondalkin area.

Elsewhere within North Clondalkin it was not considered feasible to carry out consultations on 2 playspaces over such a wide area in the available time period. The vast numbers of possible locations and the thousands of residents would make the consultations impossible to conclude in time to tender the projects and start construction in the current year. It was therefore decided that we should combine the budgets of the 2 playspaces and develop one larger playground in Collinstown Park.

As this site is in a park rather than in a housing estate the development would not be impacting as directly on residents so it was felt that detailed consultation process would not be necessary. Additionally, Collinstown Park was the only suggested location at our 2 previous playspace consultation meetings in North Clondalkin in 2016 and we already know that a level of support exists for this location.

The design will be based on our experience of the equipment which has performed best in other locations and meets the various needs of the community. We intend to tender the project out this month and to commence construction works in December.