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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF CLONDALKIN, NEWCASTLE, RATHCOOLE, SAGGART AND BRITTAS AREA COMMITTEE

Wednesday, June 21, 2023

QUESTION NO.1

QUESTION: Councillor F. Timmons

To ask the Chief Executive for a detailed report on the Clondalkin ACA and what investigations took place to extend it and the findings from same ? What has been added onto Clondalkin ACA?

REPLY:

The ACA in Clondalkin was investigated as part of the County Development Plan process and related motions informing the Draft Plan that went on public display seeking an extension.  The published Draft Plan included NCBH20 Objective 10 which stated:

‘To extend Clondalkin’s Architectural Area (ACA) subject to an assessment of the roadways, buildings and historic features as set out in Appendix 3C’

On foot of this objective a conservation consultant was engaged to investigate the ACAs in Clondalkin and assess the proposed extensions to them, having regard to Appendix 3C which was a list of roads and various features for potential inclusion, including Monastery Road area, Green Road, St. John’s Wood, Orchard Road, New Road, Knockmeenagh Road, Convent Road, Boot Road, Watery Lane and Yellow Meadows Park, Nangor Road, Station Road and Ballymanaggin, Ninth Lock road and Cherrywood Crescent. 

The assessment was carried out professionally based on the methodology set out in the Departmental Guidelines ‘Architectural Heritage Protection Guidelines for Planning Authorities, 2004’ as revised and updated 2011.

The outcome of that investigation was the inclusion of St. Brigid’s Cottages in the townland of Bushelloaf and of the 9^th Lock and Ballymanaggin Lane as two new ACAs in Clondalkin. No other areas reviewed met the requirements and criteria set out in the Guidelines for the identification of architectural conservation areas.