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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

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MEETING OF SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

Tuesday, May 07, 2019

QUESTION NO. 18

QUESTION: Councillor F. Timmons

To ask the Chief Executive for a report into the provision of Housing and how many houses have been built by year 2014 to 2019 in the lifetime of the current Council?

REPLY:

Since 2014, the Council has built a total of 262 homes under our social housing construction programme as follows:

Year of Delivery

2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 Total

No. Homes Built

0 0 15 0 238 9 262

In 2016 three schemes were completed under the housing construction programme at Suncroft, Tallaght (10 homes), St. Finians, Lucan (2) and St. Marys Belgard Road (3).

No housing builds were completed in 2017.

There were 238 social homes practically completed in 2018 at the following developments: St Marks Green, Clondalkin (11 homes); MacUilliam, Fortunestown (28 homes); Dromcarra, Jobstown (14 homes); Sheehy Skeffington Meadows (90 homes), Killininny (24 homes); Lett's Field, Neilstown (37 homes); and Killinarden (17 homes).

9 social homes have been delivered to date in 2019 at Killinarden with 103 further social homes currently under construction for delivery in 2019 in developments at Owendoher, Ballyboden (40 homes) and St. Cuthbert’s, Clondalkin (63 homes) while a further 109 social homes are under construction at Corkagh Grange under the national PPP bundle and will be delivered in 2020.

Since 2018 a further 8 housing developments comprising 276 social homes have been approved for planning by the Elected Members under the Part 8 process.  These developments, which will be completed from 2020 onwards, are at Homeville (16 homes), St. Catherine's (13 homes), Riversdale, Clondalkin (44 homes), Templeogue Village (11 older person homes), Fernwood/Maplewood (40 older person homes), Whitestown Way (81 older person homes), Balgaddy (69 homes) and Greenfort Gardens (2 homes).  Detailed design works and tender preparations are underway for these developments and it is envisaged that construction will commence on the first of these homes in the last quarter of 2019.