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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF LUCAN / PALMERSTOWN / NORTH CLONDALKIN AREA COMMITTEE

Tuesday, November 26, 2024

QUESTION NO.8

QUESTION: Councillor N. Fennell

To ask the manager to provide a report on all current vacant homes in the LEA.

REPLY:

Our Housing Maintenance and Refurbishment section undertake re-let works on vacant housing stock throughout the County to ensure stock is brought back into productive use for letting as soon as possible. The current turnaround time from the date a property is surrendered to the date it is allocated is 19.29 weeks.

There are currently 37 vacant homes in Lucan/Palmerstown/North Clondalkin within our housing stock which are at various stages of the re-letting process as follows:

Electoral Area	Survey	In Progress	Ready	TOTAL
Palmerstown / Fonthill / N Clondalkin	2	16	18	36
Lucan	0	1	0	1
TOTAL	2	17	18	37

The 18 properties ready for allocation are in the process of being tenanted through CBL and other allocation processes.

Private Vacant Homes

Phase 1 of a county-wide survey of potential vacant properties in conjunction with the Department of Housing Local Government and Heritage (DHLGH) was carried out during 2023.

There are currently 22 homes included on the Vacant Homes Register which are in the Lucan, Palmerstown, Fonthill LEA.  The ownership of the properties identified are investigated with a view to engaging with owners to bring the properties back into productive use with the assistance of the Croí Cónaithe Vacant Homes Grant, Repair and Leasing Scheme and Buy and Renew Scheme.