COMHAIRLE CONTAE ÁTHA CLIATH THEAS
SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

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MEETING OF CLONDALKIN AREA COMMITTEE

Wednesday, April 21, 2021

MOTION NO. 17

MOTION: Councillor William Joseph Carey

"To ask the Chief Executive to present a report for debate at the Area Committee on the Street Light upgrade programme including timeline for when the programme will commence and when older Council Estates such as Lealand and Lindisfarne, which have a higher proportion of older people, will have their street lights upgraded to enhance resident safety."

REPORT:

As the elected members are aware, there are ongoing technical issues nationally regarding the upgrade of the older pre 1990s lighting stock. While these issues are being addressed at a national level between the CCMA/RMO and the CRU (Commission for Regulation of Utilities), we are progressing our programme by identifying any of that percentage of our existing pre 1990s  stock (30% or approximately 3,000 PL points) that can be upgraded without incurring the technical problems that are under discussion.

A survey has been ongoing since September of last year to identify the locations of these columns. Unfortunately these locations cannot by identified simply by a particular housing estate or road. Each column has to be opened individually by a qualified electrician and the interior wiring arrangement assessed and recorded.

This survey has enabled us to do the following:

     1.Keep up the ongoing progress of carrying out approximately 150 upgrades a month. In the first quarter of this year, we carried out     431upgrades of this type of PL point.

    2. Gather enough information regarding the locations of this type of column to enable us to present a programme to the elected members via ACM in June. 

This programme will set out where the upgrades will take place by estate, road and column number and will cover the upgrades proposed to be carried out for the remainder of this year.

This proposed programme will consist of approximately 1150 upgrades and will be as fairly distributed across the county as possible. The nature of the upgrades and the issues discussed above will mean that not all PL points within estates or roads can be fully completed at this time.

It is our intention to issue a further programme of  similar upgrades at the end of the year, when the required survey information has been collated to allow us to do so.