Proposed Closure of Porterstown Railway Level Crossing
Thursday, May 16, 2013
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Construction Begins on Luttrellstown Community College
Tuesday, October 2, 2012
Work has begun on the construction of Luttrellstown Community College beside Scoil Choilim at Porterstown Road. Planning permission was granted earlier in the year and a possible appeal to An Bord Pleanala was narrowly averted at the last moment. All going to plan, the contractors HKTT and Western Build will have phase 1 of the school ready for occupation next September.
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St.Mochtas Picnic at Luttrellstown Castle
Friday, June 8, 2012
This year’s Annual St. Mochtas Parish Picnic will be held on Sunday 24th June from 1-8pm.
Thanks to the wonderful generosity of Luttrellstown Golf Club the Picnic Funday is being held held in the grounds around Luttrellstown Castle. This is a fantastic day out and a wonderful opportunity to visit the grounds around the Castle. Everybody is welcome.
For ongoing information please see www.facebook.com/stmochtasparishpicnicfunday Share the link on Facebook to all your friends.
Tickets are available from the Parish Centre at €10 per family/car which covers admittance, raffle and live entertainment all day. Events include:
Luttrellstown Community College Granted Planning Permission
Friday, June 1, 2012
Fingal County Council have granted planning permission for Luttrellstown Community College and a nine room extension to Scoil Choilim primary
school at Porterstown. Both schools are operated by County Dublin VEC.
This
is really good news for the Clonsilla and Carpenterstown area. Fine
Gael got a lot of criticism from the left wing parties when we supported
rezoning land for the school sites. As well as the badly needed schools,
the community and sports facilities will be a fantastic asset for the
local area.
The
new Luttrellstown Community College will be a 2 storey school building
with 20 specialist classrooms, 18 general classrooms, general purpose
hall, library/resource room, offices, staff areas and ancillary
accommodation with a total floor area C. 7149 m.sq.
The
College will have 5 new ballcourts, bicycle racks and 36 new carparking
spaces and will be located on the southern side of Scoil Choilm.
Scoil Choilm which is currently a 16 classroom primary school, will get a
new special needs unit and a 2 story 8 classroom extension.
At
the eastern side of Scoil Choilm a new 16 classroom primary school is
to be constructed to include a special needs unit and ancillary
accommodation as well as 34 carparking spaces.
In keeping with the Fingal schools model a new community centre and sports hall will be constructed on the Campus. Outside there will be 4 new ballcourts and parking spaces.
Site
works will include new access roads, turning circles and set down areas
off the new Porterstown Link Road which is due for completion by the
end of March.
Following a submission from the local Porterstown and Homely Residents Association, the Department of Education relocated the school on the site. This required that additional information had to be provided to the planning authority which delayed the decision.
Following a submission from the local Porterstown and Homely Residents Association, the Department of Education relocated the school on the site. This required that additional information had to be provided to the planning authority which delayed the decision.
You can view the planning files here
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€1m funding for N3 Mulhuddart Interchange Upgrade
Thursday, April 19, 2012
Work on the N3 Mulhuddart Interchange Upgrade can now begin after the Department of Transport today provided €1m in funding. The upgrade will ease traffic congestion at this busy junction which provides access to the Blanchardstown Town Centre and to some of our major business parks.
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Porterstown Link Road opens to traffic
Tuesday, April 17, 2012
The new Porterstown Link road opened to traffic today. Congratulations to Kilwex the contractor and to Caroline Butler from Clifton Scannell engineering consultants for getting this project completed on time.
Work began last autumn thanks to the €1.5m made available from Minister for Transport Leo Varadkar. The project had been designed and approved by Fingal County Council in 2008 but for some reason the Fianna Fail/Green Party government never provided the funding.
The new road will make life easier for commuters and local drivers alike. It will help relieve traffic at the Clonsilla rail crossing and on the Clonsilla road and improve the quality of life in the general area.
There were some delays at the traffic lights on the first day it opened. At my request
the lights were tweaked this morning (April 19th) and will be kept under
review for the next few weeks.
The
original plans were for the roundabout to remain. However, given that a
secondary school and possibly two primary schools will be accessed from
the junction, it was decided that traffic lights would provide more
safety for pedestrians.
The
old Porterstown road will now be closed to vehicular traffic at the
railway crossing so all traffic between the new Porterstown Link road and the Clonsilla
road will have to travel over the Dr. Troy Bridge.
The Porterstown Link road works entailed:
- 550m link road from Luttrellstown to Diswellstown Roads;
- Realignment/reconstruction of section of Luttrellstown Road;
- Footpaths and cycletracks;
- Location and protection of existing HP gas main;
- Diversion of ESB and telecommunication services;
- Large concrete attenuation tank;
- New drainage, water mains, gas mains and ducted services;
- Traffic lighting and public lighting;
- Landscaping and boundary treatments;
- Road markings and signage.
New Secondary School Sanctioned
Monday, October 20, 2008
The Minister for Education has also confirmed that a new secondary school to serve the Castleknock and Clonsilla areas will open in September 2009. Details are not yet available. It will be a community college operated by Dublin County VEC (just like Castleknock Community College). The school’s permanent home will be in Porterstown/Kellystown. In June, the council designated this land for a reserved school site.
One of the reasons Fine Gael supported the controversial rezoning was because there was no land locally for these badly needed schools. The Socialists, Labour and the Greens voted against so I expect to hear them furiously welcoming this news and desperately trying get back onside with the local community.
Roads Update
Wednesday, September 3, 2008
Other Local News:
• Fingal County Council agreed unanimously to approve the Porterstown Link Road Scheme. This involves the westward extension of the Diswellstown from the Woodbrook roundabout to access the new primary school (under construction) and the newly designated secondary school site. It also involves realigning the Porterstown Road (the road with St. Mochta’s school and the halting site) and linking it to the roundabout. This will allow more drivers to avoid the level crossings, allow access the new school sites, provide a new shorter route from the Diswellstown area to the new school and St. Mochta’s School and will link the Diswellstown Road and Luttrellstown Road (the road with Porterstown Church on it). Traffic studies have shown that this will result in a reduction in traffic on the Diswellstown and Clonsilla Roads and bypass the very slow rail crossing at Clonsilla Bridge
• As part of the scheme, a new pedestrian crossing will be provided opposite the Courtyard apartments in Clonsilla. The dangerous junction at the gates of Luttrellstown Castle (near Clonsilla station) will be realigned.
• Later in the year, the Council will publish proposals to reopen the one-way system on Clonsilla Road to two-way traffic. It has also been decided to replace the disused bus lane alongside PowerCity and Renault garage providing an extra lane for cars and to replace the roundabout at the top of ‘Fire Station Road’ with a signalised junction.
The Porterstown Link Road
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Note: this road is now open and there have been some delays at the traffic lights. At my request the lights were tweaked this morning (April 19th) and will be kept under review for the next few weeks.
The original plans were for the roundabout to remain. However, given that a secondary school and possibly two primary schools will be accessed from the junction, it was decided that traffic lights would provide more safety for pedestrians.
The old Porterstown road will now be closed to vehicular traffic at the railway crossing so all traffic between the new road and the Clonsilla road will have to travel over the Dr. Troy Bridge.
The junction of the Luttrellstown road and the Lucan/Clonsilla road at the main gates to luttrellstown Castle will be changed to give priority to Luttrellstown/Lucan traffic and effectively making the road to the Clonsilla rail crossing a side road.
The County Council at it’s meeting in July adopted and approved the scheme for the construction of the Porterstown Link Road from the Diswellstown Road Roundabout to the Luttrellstown Road at it’s existing junction with the Porterstown Road. This new road will help reduce traffic flows on the Clonsilla road as N4/N3 traffic from Lucan seek to avoid delays at the Clonsilla level crossing.
The Scheme also includes
(a) the construction of a new road from Diswellstown Road Roundabout to Porterstown Road together with grass verges, pedestrian footpaths and cycletracks;
(b) construction of a new road between Diswellstown Roundabout and Luttrellstown Road to the Porterstown Road at a point approximately 150 metres south of the existing Diswellstown Roundabout/ Read more...
Kellystown Variation (Rezoning)
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
As you may know, Fingal County Council has voted by 12 to 10 in favour of the variation to rezone the Kellystown lands. Four of the seven councillors from Dublin 15 supported the variation.
The Kellystown Variation, as adopted by the Council, provides for
• 60 acres of residential zoned land along the railway line
• 79 acres of amenity and parkland along the Luttrellstown Road
• 7 acres for a suburban centre (mixed-use development)
• Reserved sites for one secondary school, two primary schools, a community/sports centre, a graveyard and new grounds for St Mochta’s FC
It is a legally binding requirement of the variation that no residential development may take place until the secondary, first primary school, community/recreation centre, distributor road and the new canal and railing way bridge at Clonsilla are up and running (Objective KN9)
Prior to any residential development taking place, the Council must also agree and vote on a Local Area Plan (LAP) which will deal with issues such as housing design and density and public transport provision for the new development (Objective KN7)
As I am not a member of the Council, I did not have a vote on this issue. However, my local Fine Gael colleague Cllr. Eithne Loftus voted in favour for the following reasons:
1. To secure the much needed school sites, parkland and facilities for the community
2. Because 248 of the 282 submissions made by members of public supported the variation
3. The opponents of the variation were unable to come up with a viable alternative proposal to secure these amenities for the public
4. To secure, for the first time, a genuine publicly owned greenbelt which will stretch from Shackelton’s Gardens in Clonsilla to the grounds of Castleknock Hurling Football Club near the M50 providing a barrier to further development between Castleknock and Clonsilla and the Liffey Valley and Luttrellstown Demesne to the south
5. The eventual development of the lands along the railway is inevitable due to their proximity to the railway and the new powers given by the government to the Dublin Transport Authority to overrule the zoning decisions of councillors
There will be no residential development on these lands for a very long time. However, Leo Varadkar TD and I will put maximum pressure on the government to acquire the newly reserved school sites and to now proceed with their development without further delay.
If I am elected to the Council, I will use my influence and that of my party to ensure that improved train services, the long-promised train station at Porterstown, the graveyard and parkland is delivered in phases alongside the residential development when the Local Area Plan (LAP) for Kellystown comes up for discussion. This integrated planning approach was used in Adamstown and Hansfield and should be used in Kellystown as well. I will also do my best to ensure that the development that is permitted is well-designed and appropriate for a suburban area such as Dublin 15. I will be in contact with you to invite you to discuss the LAP with me as soon as a draft is prepared by the Council.
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