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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

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MEETING OF SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

Monday, July 14, 2025

QUESTION NO. 5

QUESTION: Councillor C. Brady

To ask the Chief Executive for a report on the status of housing estates that have not yet been taken in charge. Report to include, for each estate, the current status of the taking in charge process including an estimated timeframe for when the process is expected to commence and conclude.

REPLY:

Please see attached list of estates that are not yet Taken in Charge in the County and are under priority consideration following requests from the developers.  

The typical TIC process has two distinct processes. 1. The technical surveys, assessments and quality assessment records for the housing estate. 2. the legislative process to take the estate into the charge of the Council.

There are typically 21no. technical checks to complete during the first stage technical process.  These involve much detailed time and resource assembling the technical check information by the developer's engineering team.  Then the SDCC technical team have to check the submitted information and sign off each of the 21 elements as satisfactory.

When all technical checks have been signed off by the relevant SDCC sections, the proposed TIC can be advertised for Taking in Charge.  This is a prescribed legislative procedure and ultimately, the elected members have the final vote on whether to take the estate or infrastructure into the charge of the Council.  This legislative process takes 3 to 4 months to complete.

The speed of completion of the TIC process is strongly linked to the commitment of the developer to submit the technical information in a timely manner.  In some instances, such as companies going into receivership, or surveys that show up technical issues, delays can be experienced on some of the estates that the Council is progressing to TIC.  Therefore, it is not possible to accurately estimate the timeframe for the completion of TIC in each case.

SDCC have prioritised a number of housing estates for fast tracking, where the developer has committed to assigning extra resources to complete the checks and submit the "as constructed" records quickly.  This has led to faster completion times for some of the more recent TIC processes.