Agenda and minutes

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Contact: Dara McLoughlin  Fiona Moore

Items
No. Item

1.

Minutes of the North Central Area Committee Meeting held on 11th March, 2019. pdf icon PDF 224 KB

(Attached herewith)

Minutes:

Order: Agreed

2.

Questions to the Area Manager pdf icon PDF 175 KB

(Report herewith)

Additional documents:

Minutes:

Order: Noted

3.

Area Matters

3a

Irish Rail

(Jane Cregan PR & Events Manager Irish Rail & Chris Rafferty, District Manager, Irish Rail)

Minutes:

Order:  Deferred to May meeting.

3b

Raheny Shamrock Athletics Club

(Michael Martin/Pat Hooper)

Minutes:

Order: Presentation Noted.

3c

Part 8 Proposal - Tennis and Bowling Pavilion at St. Anne's Park pdf icon PDF 353 KB

(Report herewith) (Bernard Brady)

Additional documents:

Minutes:

Order: Noted.

3d

Report on Rapid Build in Darndale pdf icon PDF 62 KB

(Attached herewith)  Connell Mc Glynn/Sean O’Reilly

Minutes:

Order: Noted.

3e

Kilbarrack Playground Update

(Verbal Update) Fergus O’Carroll

Minutes:

Order: Noted. Report circulated.

3f

With reference to the proposed disposal of a plot of land to the rear of 31 Marino Green, Marino, Dublin 3 to James and Audrey Cunningham pdf icon PDF 152 KB

Additional documents:

Minutes:

Order: Agreed

3g

With reference to the proposed disposal of a Site at Belmayne, Dublin 13 to the Department of Education and Skills as a post primary Site. pdf icon PDF 126 KB

Additional documents:

Minutes:

Order: More detailed information required on school design from the Department of Education.

3h

With reference to the proposed disposal of a plot of land to the rear of 7 Marino Park, Dublin 3 to Kevin Leech and Deirdre Connolly pdf icon PDF 152 KB

Additional documents:

Minutes:

Order: Agreed

3i

With reference to the proposed disposal of a plot of land to the rear of 25 Marino Green, Dublin 3 to Peter McCartan pdf icon PDF 152 KB

Additional documents:

Minutes:

Order: Agreed

 

3j

With reference to the proposed disposal of a plot of land to the rear of 81 Shelmartin Avenue Dublin 3 to Carrie Huberman and Pat Hyland pdf icon PDF 152 KB

Additional documents:

Minutes:

Order: Agreed

 

3k

Works Programme 2019 pdf icon PDF 49 KB

Housing & Traffic (Reports herewith)

Parks (Verbal Update) –Fergus O’Carroll

Additional documents:

Minutes:

Order: Noted.

3l

Housing Supply Report pdf icon PDF 594 KB

(Report Herewith)

Minutes:

Order: Noted

3m

Junk Collection 2019

Verbal Update-Dympna McCann

Minutes:

Order: Noted and Agreed.

3n

Sports & Wellbeing Partnership Area Committee Report pdf icon PDF 699 KB

(Report herewith)

Minutes:

Order: Noted.

3o

Naming & Numbering Proposal for a new residential development on a site located at the access road into Grattan Lodge, Donaghmede, Dublin 13- Numbers 1-10 Grattan Close & 11-18 Grattan Close Apartments, Grattan Lodge, Donaghmede, Dublin 13. pdf icon PDF 9 KB

(Report herewith) –Elaine Mulvenny

Additional documents:

Minutes:

Order: Area office to consider changes.

3p

Update on Dumping in Belcamp

 (Verbal Update) Elaine Mulvenny

Minutes:

Order:  Noted.  Report circulated by Elaine Mulvenny.

4.

Roads & Traffic Matters

4a

Minutes of the TAG Meeting held on 26th March, 2019 pdf icon PDF 52 KB

(Report herewith)

Additional documents:

Minutes:

Order: Noted

5.

Items for following meetings

Minutes:

Irish Rail to attend May meeting.

Artane Residents Association to attend May meeting (Traffic).

 

6.

Motions

6a

Motion in the name of Councillor Ciaran O'Moore

 

I propose that a ban be placed on erecting election posters in Raheny Village, from Raheny Dart station to Manor House School and from Raheny Library to Raheny House Nursing home, this covers approximately 34 poles.  I have been in communication with some local business and tidy town committees in the area to start a Poster  Free campaign. Raheny Tidy Towns and Raheny Business Association support this campaign100 percent.

 

A voluntary ban on election posters is now in place in over 100 towns including the municipal counties of Cork, Dublin, Galway and Limerick following a campaign for the elimination of waste generated from candidates’ publicity posters.

 

In 2014, just over 2000 candidates ran for 750 seats in the local elections, erecting over 600,000 posters, the equivalent of 23 Croke Park Stadiums.

 

Those posters have reportedly produced 360 tonnes of Carbon Dioxide (CO2), the same amount generated if an average car drove non-stop for 592 days. A similar number is expected to be distributed this May during both local and European elections.

 

Promotional posters can also pose a threat to public safety by covering road signage leading to motorway accidents.

 

Cyclists have also complained about improperly positioned posters that often block their path and put their lives in danger.

 

Under the country’s anti-litter legislations including the Litter Pollution Act of 1997, endangering public safety by inappropriately positioning promotional posters is an offence.

Minutes:

 

I propose that a ban be placed on erecting election posters in Raheny Village, from Raheny Dart station to Manor House School and from Raheny Library to Raheny House Nursing home, this covers approximately 34 poles.  I have been in communication with some local business and tidy town committees in the area to start a Poster  Free campaign. Raheny Tidy Towns and Raheny Business Association support this campaign100 percent.

 

A voluntary ban on election posters is now in place in over 100 towns including the municipal counties of Cork, Dublin, Galway and Limerick following a campaign for the elimination of waste generated from candidates’ publicity posters.

 

In 2014, just over 2000 candidates ran for 750 seats in the local elections, erecting over 600,000 posters, the equivalent of 23 Croke Park Stadiums.

 

Those posters have reportedly produced 360 tonnes of Carbon Dioxide (CO2), the same amount generated if an average car drove non-stop for 592 days. A similar number is expected to be distributed this May during both local and European elections.

 

Promotional posters can also pose a threat to public safety by covering road signage leading to motorway accidents.

 

Cyclists have also complained about improperly positioned posters that often block their path and put their lives in danger.

 

Under the country’s anti-litter legislations including the Litter Pollution Act of 1997, endangering public safety by inappropriately positioning promotional posters is an offence.

Reply:

 

This motion will be discussed at the North Central Area Committee.

 

Order: Report to Councillor Amended motion carried.

6b

Motion in the name of Councillor Michael O'Brien

 

That this Area Committee notes the unfortunate delay in proceeding with the playground at  Kilbarrack and therefore calls on Dublin City Council that if agreement cannot be reached with the concerned residents in Foxfield Crescent, that a suitably amended version of the playground be proceeded with at the site without further delay.

 

Minutes:

 

That this Area Committee notes the unfortunate delay in proceeding with the playground at  Kilbarrack and therefore calls on Dublin City Council that if agreement cannot be reached with the concerned residents in Foxfield Crescent, that a suitably amended version of the playground be proceeded with at the site without further delay.

 

Reply:

 

The Parks Service met with local residents and listened to their concerns.  One of the principle concerns related to the proximity of the proposed play equipment to the residences.  The Parks Service worked with the playground designers through a couple of iterations to address those concerns for which there was a design solution.  The layout has been reordered pulling the play equipment fully out of the green area opposite the housing and only the equipment for toddlers is within 100m of the nearest house and the majority of the play equipment for older children is on the opposite side of the all-weather pitch.

 

The revised layout proposals and a request for details of how the area opposite the houses could be landscaped was forwarded to the residents the week before last and but feedback has not yet been received.

           

Contact:           Fergus O’Carroll, Senior Executive Parks Superintendent

Tel:                  2226625

Email:              parks@dublincity.ie

 

Order: Report to Councillor.

6c

Motion in the name of Councillor Michael O'Brien

 

That this Area Committee requests that Dublin City Council carry out a feasibility study for the installation of a running track in St Anne's Park in light of representations received by councillors from Raheny Shamrocks Athletic Club.

 

Minutes:

 

That this Area Committee requests that Dublin City Council carry out a feasibility study for the installation of a running track in St Anne's Park in light of representations received by councillors from Raheny Shamrocks Athletic Club.

 

Reply:

 

The Parks Service did give this issue serious consideration after the last time this athletics club presented to this committee on this matter.

 

Unfortunately it was found that there is nowhere in St. Anne’s Park where such a large facility could be located without the removal of a significant number of pitches and heritage trees.

 

Furthermore St. Anne’s and the surrounding residential roads simply would not be able to accommodate the parking that such a large-scale facility would generate.  It is also felt that the need to fence off such a large facility within an historic landscape would significantly negative impact on the preservation of the heritage of the parkland and permanently alter the character of the demesne.

 

The Parks Service did look at all of the available Parks in the area and it was felt that the only Park which could accommodate such a large-scale sporting facility was Belcamp Park where there is enough room to develop the facility with parking and a dedicated entrance from the Clonshaugh Road.

 

Contact:           Fergus O’Carroll, Senior Executive Parks Superintendent

Tel:                  2226625

Email:              parks@dublincity.ie

 

Order: Report to Councillor.

6d

Motion in the name of Councillor Deirdre Heney

 

That a report /examination of the mound (ice house) and adjoining grotto in All Hallows College be carried out to say if on the list of protected structures or if possibility of same can be examined.

 

Minutes:

 

That a report /examination of the mound (ice house) and adjoining grotto in All Hallows College be carried out to say if on the list of protected structures or if possibility of same can be examined.

 

Reply:

 

All Hallows College, described as ‘original mansion and “Temple”’ is included on the City Council’s Record of Protected Structures (RPS); Ref. No. 3237.  The mound (icehouse) and adjoining grotto are included as the meaning of a ‘protected structure’ includes “… the land lying within the curtilage of the structure, any other structures lying within that curtilage and their interiors, and all fixtures and features which form part of the interior or exterior of the above structures” (Section 3.2 Protected Structures and Proposed Protected Structures, Architectural Heritage protection Guidelines for Planning Authorities (2011).

 

Contact:   Paraic Fallon, Senior Planner, Archaeology, Conservation & Heritage

Email:      paraic.fallon@dublincity.ie

 

Order: Motion Agreed.