COMHAIRLE CONTAE ÁTHA CLIATH THEAS
SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF LUCAN AREA COMMITTEE

Tuesday, December 18, 2018

MOTION NO. 2

MOTION: Councillor D. O'Brien

Cathaoirleachs business

That this Area Committee request the Chief Executive provide a report on the new Teen Space Programme and for this report to include what areas in the Lucan LEA will be included in the programme.

REPORT:

During the delivery of the 2014-2018 play space programme for younger children by South Dublin County Council, an item that repeatedly emerged was the need to carry out a similar programme of facility provision for teenagers. South Dublin County Council commenced a consultation process with teenagers from 2017 into 2018, which examined both active and passive recreational requirements for this age group. Background research was also carried out over the period to assess current level of provision for this group in the county.

A report presented the preliminary findings of the study and the draft recommendations to the Environment Public Realm and Climate Change SPC on the 01 05 2018 and the County Council Meeting on the 14 05 2018.

The Council undertook to carry out further consultation, which has been progressed with the Community Department and various youth groups and teenagers and the report is now being finalised for presentation to the Council at the start of 2019 to allow a teenage facility programme to be rolled out commencing in 2019.

The preliminary report made some recommendations with regard to possible locations. These initial recommendations were based on some of the requests / agreements from communities which had already arisen during the play space programme or locations which are located in larger parks or central town / village areas, and it is likely the programme will commence with these. The proposed Ball Wall at Esker Park (part of the 2017 participatory budget projects), which is due to commence construction in early 2019, is a project which is very similar to the type of facilites teenagers expressed an interest in, so consideration is currently been given to providing complementary facilites in this area. However, the final list of initial projects is still under consideration and will be presented in early 2019; the programme will commence with an initial list of projects and it is intended to develop a further tranche of projects subsequent to the initial projects.