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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF RATHFARNHAM / TEMPLEOGUE / FIRHOUSE / BOHERNABREENA AREA COMMITTEE

Tuesday, April 18, 2023

QUESTION NO. 5

QUESTION: Councillor Lyn Hagin Meade

To ask the Manager for a date of completion of pedestrian safety measures and pedestrian traffic crossing at the junction of Ballycullen Green Estate, Beechdale Road and Hunters Road R113 to support the safe crossing of children attending Firhouse Educate Together Secondary School.

REPLY:

Planning permission for the FETSS temporary building was granted by An Bord Pleanála. Condition 14 of this approval required the Department of Education to pay the Planning Authority a financial contribution in respect of a pedestrian crossing on Hunters Road.  A relevant Condition 14 invoice issued to the Department of Education on the 22nd December 2022 and as of 29th March 2023 is unpaid.

While a crossing will not be installed until this payment is made, site investigations have already been carried out by the engineering team and a proposal for a raised belisha beacon crossing has been drawn up by the Council. The Road Safety Audit for this proposed crossing is currently under procurement, with a view to progressing the installation as soon as the funding is received.

A representative from the Council met with the FETSS School Principal, Deputy Principal and representatives from Ballycullen Green at the location on 21st February 2022 when the above was communicated to all present.