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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF LUCAN / PALMERSTOWN / NORTH CLONDALKIN AREA COMMITTEE

Tuesday, March 22, 2022

MOTION NO. 13

MOTION: Councillor L. O'Toole

The planning application for a new build for Griffeen community college has been granted. This news was welcomed by all in the community. This committee asks that the Chief Executive examines the planned exits and entrances for the new school. The committee requests that management provides a plan to designing new entrances/exits at Adamstown link road, for many reasons including addressing the congested traffic along Griffeen Avenue.

REPORT:

The subject street to the south of the school sites is bound on either side by development land identified for provision of housing as per the Clonburris SDZ Planning Scheme. The subject street is also intended to form an important infrastructural corridor with strategic foul and surface water network as per the respective SDZ strategies to serve the wider housing development on SDZ lands north of the railway line. The purpose of the street, as per the overall Clonburris SDZ Planning Scheme framework, is multifaceted.

It is intended that the design of access onto Thomas Omer Way/Adamstown Avenue will be examined as part of proposals for housing in this area. This will have to consider these multifaceted functions and the Planning Scheme “Overall Movement Concept” (Figure 2.2.7) which defines hierarchy of streets, movement corridors and indicates possible junction formats. This is in order to avoid costly premature works and to ensure that any proposal does not impede on the development lands to the south of the school sites and does not undermine this route as a strategic SDZ-wide infrastructure route. Plans for these lands are being progressed by the Housing Section as part of SDCC’s commitment to housing delivery in Clonburris SDZ.