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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

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MEETING OF TALLAGHT AREA COMMITTEE

Monday, February 25, 2019

QUESTION NO. 10

QUESTION: Councillor C. O'Connor

"To ask the Chief Executive to present an updated report on issues raised with his staff at the most recent meeting organised by the Fettercairn Estate Management group and in reporting will he also respond to criticisms by the group that items raised by them at the Deputations meeting last May have still not been progressed to their satisfaction and will he make a statement?"

REPLY:

The Council continue to support and meet with the Fettercairn Estate Management Group and regularly report back to them on issues raised and any issues of a criminal nature are passed on to the Gardai.

At the Deputations meeting held with the Group , the follwing issues raised were: 

  1. The leveling out of a green space and the installation of goal posts on Kilmartin Drive.
  2. Moving the wall back on to the houses on the Cheeverstown Road / Catherine Tynan  Road. 
  3. Land at the back of the house in Kilmartin.

The responses below were received from the Econmic Development and Environment, Water and Climate Change Departments. 

The wall along Cheeverstown Rd was designed as part of the Roads Scheme at the time, and cannot be moved.  

As Economic Development have no budget for any improvement works at this area, it was suggested that any improvement works to the estate could be as part of a general housing scheme, including the land along Katherine Tynan Rd (beside Luas Line) as well as along the Cheeverstown Rd at Kilmartin. 

The Architects Department have suggested that extra openings for pedestrian access could be designed into a scheme along with improved landscaping etc. though increased access points may also lead to more issues of ASB.

A representative from Environment , Water and Climate Change Department met with a representative from the centre and examined the open space regarding a regrading of the open space and putting in goalposts. It was explained that the Council did not have the resources to do so at the time and this is still the case. A planting scheme was discussed for the open space and a few suggestions made were taken on board.