Poppintree 12 New Build Housing.
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Housing Design Consultation
The following is a BNC report on a consultation meeting (10/7/2002) with Poppintree residents in relation to a Ballymun Regeneration Ltd proposal to build 20 new dwellings near Graigue Court / Balbutcher Way /Balbutcher Drive.
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A meeting to display the site layout and designs of the 20 dwellings was to have been held in Stormanstown House and invitations had been sent a week beforehand to residents living in close proximity of the site. This followed a series of design meetings, which included local residents and Forum members.
However Poppintree Estate Forum refused to accept that the meeting would take place in Stormanstown house and the day before the meeting was to take place, they subsequently distributed their own leaflets, which unilaterally changed the venue to Poppintree Community Offices boardroom.
A member of Poppintree Forum chaired the meeting and Ballymun Regeneration Ltd decided to attend the meeting under protest.
Paul Flanagan, the design Architect and Eamon Farrelly/Ciaran Murray (BRL) were in attendance to make the presentation of the Poppintree 12 designs and answer questions.
Attendance: 50 local residents – Prospective residents for the new dwellings were not invited to this meeting.
ANSWERS TO RESIDENT'S QUESTIONS
- The proposed number of dwellings is 20.
- There are twenty-seven applicants for the twenty dwellings.
- All the dwellings are on Graigue Court side of the site because the services are on the western side.
- The existing hill will be lowered but there will still be one and a half Metres difference in the road height from one end of the site to the other.
- The distances of the dwellings from the Graigue Court houses ranges from twenty-one to twenty-eight metres.
- The proposed new link road into the site will be traffic calmed.
- There is the potential for twenty-seven children to be housed in the site.
House Type | Accommodation | House Size |
| A type units | 2 Bed – 1 Person | 50 Sq Metre |
| B type units | 2 Bed – 2 Person | 60 Sq Metre |
| C type units | 3 Bed – 3 Person | 80 Sq Metre |
| D type units | 3 Bed – 3 to 5 Person | 90 Sq Metre |
| E type units | 3-4 Bed – 6 Person | 97 Sq Metre |
| F type units | 4 Bed – 7 Person | 105 Sq Metre |
* Opinions in relation to the number of dwellings that would be acceptable ranged from none to ten senior citizen bungalows.
* Concerns were expressed about children in the existing dwellings playing near the new road.
- Closure of laneways needs to be clarified.
Decisions:
No decisions were arrived at.
Next Steps:
No follow-up meeting or steps agreed.
Comment:
Because of the fact that the meeting was taken out of the hands of Ballymun Regeneration Ltd without agreement, the most that could be said is that the residents had been consulted with and had the legal right to oppose or accept the BRL planning application.
Recommendation for next step:
BNC recommended that Ballymun Regeneration Ltd should afford the same opportunity to the applicant Dublin City Council tenants to be consulted with, before amending the designs or applying for planning permission.
This page was updated on 20th July, 2006