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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF LUCAN / PALMERSTOWN / NORTH CLONDALKIN AREA COMMITTEE

Tuesday, November 23, 2021

QUESTION NO. 25

QUESTION: Councillor Joanna Tuffy

To the Chief Executive Officer for an update about the introduction of new mobile library stops near Lucan Village including Sarsfield Park

REPLY:

Our Lucan stops at the moment are -

Foxdene Park

Earlsfort Avenue

Foxborough Walk

Esker Meadow

Beech Park

Larkfield Avenue

We also do Adamstown.  It’s a very well served area.  Putting a stop in Lucan Village would be difficult for the following reasons –

Any new stops are subject to finding a viable location.  The location needs to be easy to access for a mobile library vehicle for 1 hour at the same time every week.  We would need to be guaranteed that this would happen otherwise we won’t be able to stop at the same location each week or not at all if there is no space to pull in.  A busy village location would be an extremely unlikely location for a mobile library stop because of this problem, plus there would be severe difficulties with traffic.  This would present problems getting to the village from another location or getting to another location from the village.

 The location would also need to be on a road that is safe for children and older people to cross.

 Including a new stop in our timetable would mean the dropping of another stop.

 We have had no demand from the community/members of the public for a stop to be put in Lucan village.

 Regarding a stop in Sarsfield, Sarsfield is very close to the village and would present the same traffic problems.  It’s a small estate too so I’m not sure about being able to park up a mobile library vehicle.  Again, we have got not demand for a stop to be put here.