MEETING OF CLONDALKIN AREA COMMITTEE
Wednesday, November 18, 2015
QUESTION NO.11
QUESTION: Councillor F. Timmons
“To ask the Chief Executive for a report on a playspace in Newcastle and has the old school yard been considered ? Has approach and dialogue taken place with the Laurence O’Toole Trust?”
REPLY:
No suitable site for the play space in Newcastle has been identified and there was consultation on this with the Renewcastle Group.
The only feasible site is in the new park that will be constructed as part of the Local Area Plan and which will include a play space. The timeline for this construction is currently unclear as the site is subject to a Receivership process.
There was a suggestion to liaise with the Laurence O’Toole Trust on a possible alternative site and this suggestion will be followed up. At present the Council is engaged with a number of areas across the county on the progression of the Play Space programme and it will not be possible to undertake the consultation on Newcastle for a number of weeks.
