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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF LUCAN/PALMERSTOWN/NORTH CLONDALKIN AREA COMMITTEE

Tuesday, February 23, 2021

MOTION NO. 22

MOTION: Councillor Shane Moynihan

That the Area Committee write to ESB Networks to ask them to activate the street lights at the Woodfarm Acres entrance but which are sited in the ESB sub-station grounds.

REPORT:

SDCC Public Lighting Section have engaged with ESBN on several occasions since this query was first tabled by elected members in mid December 2020 to try and resolve this matter.

These lights are on private grounds and are owned and maintained by ESBN. They are there purely to assist in ESBN maintenance operations on the substation. They are not there to light the adjacent path. There is an alternate path directly beside this location, that is easily accessible by local pedestrian traffic and which is lit in the normal manner.

The path and open space in question are owned by ESBN and they are not in favour of local pedestrians trespassing on what is private land, even though there is no boundary around it.

In the short term, we have now come to an agreement with ESBN to carry out repair works to their lights within the substation compound under thier supervision and at no cost to them. This is purely a one off arrangement. We do not have the resources to maintain lights which are not ours in the first instance.

The open space does not seem to form part of the substation compound, and if it is accessible by the public, then representation should be made by the Area Committe to our Public Realm Section to take this open space in charge and for them to make arrangements with us to install public lighting on their behalf.