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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

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MEETING OF LUCAN/PALMERSTOWN/NORTH CLONDALKIN AREA COMMITTEE

Tuesday, May 25, 2021

MOTION NO. 3

MOTION: Councillor L. O'Toole

This committee asks Chief Executive to advise what plans are been made in regards to the running / managing of the new Lucan Sports Community centre. If an update could be given in regards to the existing tenants in place and how will the council be accommodating them during construction and again when the facility is completed. To also confirm the official name of the new community facility.

REPORT:

As advised to local Lucan area Councillors previously, there is a provision in the Council’s Three-Year Capital Programme, noted by the Council at the December 2020 meeting, for significant remedial works to the existing Lucan Leisure Centre.  These works which are currently being procured involve urgent roofing/structural works and ancillary works that will result in the closure of the current centre for an extended period of up to six months.

The length of the closure required provided the opportunity to consider the optimal operating structure for the combined Lucan Leisure complex (comprising the existing leisure centre and the new swimming pool) as the existing facility would be in a position to re-open broadly in tandem with the opening of the new swimming pool.  Formal notice was provided to the current operators of the facility that their involvement of the centre together with all formal or informal agreements or arrangements made by them with any third parties for the use or partial use of the facility would cease and that, given the current circumstances and the proposed works timeframe, it was not considered appropriate to reopen the centre in the interim even if covid-related restrictions were to allow.

An appropriate open, competitive procurement process is being examined for the optimum combined management of the overall complex and will include consideration for current and potential future uses of the existing centre.