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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

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MEETING OF RATHFARNHAM / TEMPLEOGUE / FIRHOUSE / BOHERNABREENA AREA COMMITTEE

Tuesday, December 10, 2024

QUESTION NO.2

QUESTION: Councillor C Ahern

To ask the manager to please explain in detail why Scholarstown Wood has not yet been taken in charge by the council and provide an update on the current progress?

REPLY:

An application for the Taking in Charge of Scholarstown Wood estate has been received by the South Dublin County Council.  SDCC has appointed a lead person to this file.  This person has recently made contact with the developer on several occasions requesting the required taking in charge information for this estate. To date, there has been little test or as constructed information sent to us for review.  We will continue to contact the developer's agent to try to speed up the process. If the developer does not engage meaningfully with SDCC, the completion of the Taking in Charge is difficult.  We do in this case have a cash bond in place, which we hold until the Taking in Charge is complete.  The holding of cash bonds usually makes the developer keen to progress TIC.