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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF LUCAN/PALMERSTOWN/NORTH CLONDALKIN AREA COMMITTEE

Tuesday, September 28, 2021

QUESTION NO. 12

QUESTION: Councillor Shane Moynihan

To ask the Chief Executive for the number of Housing Adaptation Grants applications made in the Lucan/Palmerstown/North Clondalkin area this year, the length of time taken to process and complete such applications, the approval rate and how this compares with 2020.

REPLY:

The Council received a total of 57 Housing Adaptation Grants to date in 2021 for local electoral area Lucan & Palmerstown- North Clondalkin.  A total of 19 applications have been approved to date with a further 7 valid applications progressing through the assessment process. For comparision all complete grant applications received in 2020 and applications received to date in 2021 were successful.  The approval for each grant are valid for 6 months (with provision for time extensions in exceptional circumstances).  The responsibility for completion of works rests with the applicant and works are generally completed within this period. There are 31 incomplete grant applications received in 2021 which require additional documentation in order to be valid submissions. The Council are engaging with applications on the provision of required additional documentation.

The average length of time to approve a grant on a valid application is currently 4.5 weeks.

As part of preparations for the introduction of the integrated housing system, reporting of new grant applications by local electoral area commenced from November 2020 with details on applications received as follows:

Local Electoral Area (LEA)	Applications received in Nov/Dec 2020	Applications received in 2021 to Date
Lucan	14	36
Palmerstown-North Clondalkin	4	21
Totals	18	57