How will we continue to maintain public spaces into the future?

Final Presentation Feb 2020 Open Space Management in County Kildare

My second motion at yesterday’s (19th February) Municipal District meeting; “That the council arrange for a yellow box to be installed outside St Conleth’s Day Care Centre in Kildare Town

Report: There is an existing yellow box in front of the care centre. There is also double yellow lines both sides of the road. There are no plans to install a yellow box on the public road.

My first motion at yesterday’s (19th February) Municipal District meeting; “That the council provide wheelchair parking as near as is safely possible on side of Stack’s Pharmacy in Monasterevin.

Report: There are two disabled parking spaces across the road. There is very restricted parking spaces at this location and no room for a disabled bay at
requested location.

Motion 1
That the council provide wheelchair parking as near as is safely possible on side of Stack’s pharmacy in Monasterevin.

Motion 2
That the council arrange for a yellow box to be installed outside St. Conleths Day Care Centre in Kildare Town.

Question 1

Can the council explain why the repairs to potholes in the Cul De Sac in Maryville, Kildare Town are only lasting a month or two at most?

Question 2

Can the council inform the residents of the Oaks when their traffic calming, for which monies were set aside last year, will be put in situ?

Allenwood

Cushalla

Woodlawn Phase V

Whitethorn Park

The Willows

Robertstown

Annsborough Court

Lowtown View

Kilmeague

Castlebawn

Allen Manor

Allen

Ballantine Park

Allen Court

Kilmeague

Bodkin Place

The Village

Caragh

Caragh View

The Streams

Old Chapel Wood

Gingerstown Park

Old Chapel Grove

The Streams (Extention)

Carragh Heights

Two Mile House

Cluain Lara

Dowdingstown Lawns

Stephenstown Court

Newbridge 

The Village

College Orchard

Beechmount Estate

The Elms

Riverside Grove

Curragh Grange

Walshestown Abbey

Watercress Manor

Crotantstown Grange

Roseberry Hill

Old Abbey Manor (Liffey Lodge)

Millfield (Hazelwood)

Walshestown Park

Kilbelin Abbey

The Meadows

Millfield Extension

Roseberry Construction

Millfield Manor – Final Phase

Montane – Rickardstown

Walshestown Meadows

Athgarvan

Millers Weir

Whitethorn, Athgarvan

Kildare 

Tower View

The Plains Estate

Crockanure Avenue

Dunmurray Drive

Loughminane Green

Curraghbeg Meadows

White Abbey Court

Cloghgarret Abbey

Rathbride Close

Ridewood Manor

Cunaberry Hill

Oak Glebe

Leinster Square

Monasterevin

Togher Wood

Ros Glas Avenue

Rose Terrace

Abbeygate

The Pastures

Barrow Close

Mount Rice Park

Kill Manor

The Glebe

Old Mill Race

Ferns Bridge

Mountrice Millls

Old Grange Wood

Distillery Court

Moores Wood

Moore Abbey Court

Brocan Wood

Ellistown

Red Hills Park

Nurney

Castle Raven

Kildoon

Nurney – Cois Caislean

Brookfield

Rathangan

Glebe Court

Sheghan Estate

Woodview

Yellow Lough Park

Newtown

Temple Mills

Curragh

Hazelwood Grove

The Grove

Brownstown Manor

Suncroft

Ashfield

Askinraw Drive

Newtown Grove

Hawthorn Wood

Eascanrath Brook

Kilcullen

Kilcullen Bridge

Curragh Close

Cnoc na Greine

Riverside Manor

Hill Crest

Cnoc na Greine Woods

Mill Stream Court

Calverstown

Deerpark Lane

Carrighill

Blackhall

Carrighill Lower (Phase 1 & Phase 2)

Lugatana Park

Burrow Manor

Cluain Aoibhin

Kilmeade

Cluain Ard

Cluain An Iarla

Castledermot

St. John’s, Castledermot

The Friary

Abbeylands

My second motion at yesterday’s (11th Dec) MD meeting; “That the council clarify any role or function the council has in relation to Monasterevin Council Hall including but not limited to, and where relevant, the administration, funding, terms of funding, oversight or management of the hall.

Report issued by: Mr D McDermott, Administrative Officer, Economic, Community and Cultural Development:  “This is a council owned facility. A committee was setup in 2011 comprising of local volunteers to take on the day to day running of the community hall and to build a clientele for the facility. The Council has a caretaker’s agreement with the committee. The current committee has called an AGM for 8:30pm on the 12 December 2019 to see if new volunteers can be co-opted onto the committee. Monasterevin Community hall was awarded a community grant of €1200 in 2018 for the upgrade of kitchen facilities and boiler.

My second question at yesterday’s (11th Dec) MD meeting; ‘Can the council provide a detailed list of all projects to which funding was allocated to in the entire current district from LPT and payparking income for the last 5 years in a user friendly format highlighting the amount allocated, where funding was or was not drawn down, any difficulties getting invoices/receipts, and the geographical spread of LPT/Payparking across the district and include a column detailing the
amount of other council grants or funds awarded to the same projects?

Report issued by Ms K Keane, Administrative Officer, Members Services: “A list in the format requested is not readily available and would require significant resource time, however information related to LPT and payparking allocations for 2018 and 2019 is published on the council website. Each year and following members approval, all unspent LPT monies are carried over to the following year. The geographical spread of LPT/Payparking spend is as per what the members have approved each year. Note: All payparking monies are allocated to roads projects only.

A detailed report in relation to the 2019 LPT allocation and grants awarded/unspent monies has been prepared in relation to item 3 on this month’s agenda. The adoption of the LPT Guidelines in September requires the Municipal District Manager to provide a cumulative quarterly report, for noting, on the status of LPT for the municipal district, which should assist the members going forward.

My first question at yesterday’s (11th Dec) MD meeting, ‘Can the council provide reassurance for residents regarding what consideration it has given to and how it intends to manage traffic around and between Scoil Bhríde in Kilcullen, the route to the playground and sports amenity carpark behind the school and the traffic coming through from the link road, Cnoc na Gréine and Castlemartin (to include a map of the proposed/draft traffic management plan) in light of the allocation of monies in the capital programme for the link road in Kilcullen?

Report: A report will be given at the meeting.

My first motion at yesterday’s (11th December) MD meeting; ‘That the council allocate the unspent 2019 LPT allocation of €236,000 to Building and Development Control to expedite the work required to bring estates not yet taken in charge around the Kildare-Newbridge Municipal District area or at least bringing them closer to the taking in charge standard, detailing ball-park figures for estates that might benefit were the fund is allocated in such a way’.

Report issued by: Ms C Barrett, Chief Fire Officer, Building and Development Control: This is a matter for the members to agree. The Development Control Section sent an e-mail to all members of the Kildare-Newbridge Municipal District asking them to consider allocating LPT money to this Section to assist with the Taking in Charge process. The following estates and estimated costings were suggested in that mail and these estates would be the ones that we would try to progress should the members agree to this motion:

• Walshestown Abbey, Newbridge. This is a medium sized development where an investment of €15,000 should be sufficient to address the remaining issues to get the estate to the Taking in Charge standard.

• Beechmount, Newbridge is a small development that would require an investment in the region of €10,000 to progress to Taking in Charge

• White Abbey Court in Kildare is also a small development that would require in the region of €10,000 to progress the estate to the required standard.

Millfield is a large development with apartments and houses. It is more complex than the other developments above and would require funding over 2-3 years to resolve the retaining wall issue. The Development Control Section are in the process of getting quotes for this work at the moment. Millfield also has a Management Company in place for the whole development and this company would have to be reduced to cover just the apartments before the estate could be taken in charge. A request to take the estate in charge has not yet been received.

My second  motion at this months; “That the council provide a progress report and clarify its role in relation to ongoing noxious weeds issue on the Old Magee Barracks site which is continuing to infringe on residential property in the area causing harm to residents and their property.

Report issued By: Mr L Dunne, Senior Executive Officer, Water Services and Environment : This is not an issue for the Environment Department. Under the Noxious Weeds Act, 1936, it is an offence for the owner/occupier of lands not to prevent the growth and spread of noxious weeds. The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine is the agency responsible for the enforcement of the Act. Persons wishing to report a location at which Noxious Weeds are present, can do so by completing a report form and submit to the Department of Agriculture, Food And the Marine via the following email address: noxiousweedsreport@agriculture.gov.ie

Report issued By: Ms B Loughlin, Heritage Officer : The control of Invasive Species on private land is a matter for the owner and not Kildare County Council.