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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF CLONDALKIN AREA COMMITTEE

Wednesday, October 21, 2020

MOTION NO. 2

MOTION: Councillor William Joseph Carey

"This Area Committee calls upon the Chief Executive to provide for funding in the next budget for the extending of the boundary wall and fence adoining Corkagh Park from top of Cherrywood Crescent to the pedestrian gateway as outlined in reply to Q5, ACM, Feb19th 2020 estimated in the region of €136,000."

REPORT:

There are no plans at the present time to replace this section of the Corkagh Park boundary.  As outlined in the report to Motion 3 at the ACM in November 2019 the height of the fence at the cul-de-sac at Cherrywood Crescent is consistent with fences used at other boundary locations around the park and there are no proposals to alter it.  The newly erected boundary at the end of Cherrywood Crescent adjacent to the Kilcarberry housing is comprised of a 1.4-metre-high railing on a 600mm high wall.  The estimated cost of €136,000 to provide a similar boundary (without piers and limestone facing on the housing side only), exceeds the upper limit on projects which we include on the annual improvement works programme. This type of boundary is easy to traverse and it would not be appropriate to replicate it along Cherrywood Crescent. A lower cost option of replacing the existing railing with a higher one, on top of the existing wall was examined however, this is not possible due to the condition of the wall.

It would appear that when the entrance at the end of Cherrywood Crescent was permanently closed as part of the housing development, it discommoded park users who had become accustomed to entering the park at this point.  To facilitate users, the Public Realm Section will explore the option of providing a path on the inside of the park parallel to the park boundary.  This path would link the remaining entrance opposite 12 Cherrywood Crescent with the path network which was previously accessed at the end of the Crescent.