Important Update on Find A Bear....

Further to yesterday's post about the Terenure and surrounding areas Teddy Bear hunt, I Love Terenure wish to clarify the following:

This is NOT to be taken as a social activity. 

It is NOT to encourage groups to walk around the streets or go on long walks.

Please use your discretion and stay within 2km of your home and only with other members of your household while maintaining a 2 metre distance from others.

Join in with the I Love Terenure Teddy Bear Hunt!

Assistance For Vulnerable Persons is Available - Can You Help Inform Them?

If you require help during the current emergency, or know someone living near you who might, there are 2 sources of help available.  Please help inform any elderly neighbours who may not have internet access and may not be aware of help available:

I Love Terenure has compiled a list of volunteers by road in the greater Terenure area.  Details are available at https://sites.google.com/view/iloveterenure/help, or details can be collected on a leaflet available at Centra.

An Garda Siochana in the Rathmines & Terenure Garda District wish to gather details of persons who may be living alone / feeling vulnerable / housebound or generally having difficulty going about their daily lives and who may have concerns about how COVID-19 may impact on their lives. The Community Garda Team in Rathmines & Terenure are in the process of calling to many of the people that they are already aware of to provide reassurance and  are ready to give whatever assistance they can. If you are aware of anybody or have concerns for any person, they would very much appreciate that you let them know as soon as you can.

Any details that you provide will be treated in the strictest confidence and the aim is to carry out visits and assist with day to day living so as to make sure that people do not have to endure hardship if they are required to self-isolate. It may be a difficult and concerning time ahead for some people but rest assured that the Community Garda team are ready and willing to give whatever help they can.

The local Community team in Terenure is; Gda Brendan Harte, Gda Shay Kilbride, and Gda Michael Power.

TERENURE GARDA STATION 01 6666400 / 666642

Can you Help, or do you Need Help?

With the current emergency, I Love Terenure are compiling a geographic based helpline service so that volunteer helpers can be put in touch with the elderly or those who may need help with light shopping, collecting prescriptions etc.

Please see their Facebook page for more details

BusConnects - Details of Presentation made on 27th January

‘Bus Connects – A Community Perspective’ 

27th January – The Spawell, Templeogue

The South Dublin County Public Participation Network (SDCPPN) hosted a community led meeting on Monday 27th January 2020 providing an opportunity for a group of 20 residents' associations (the Metro South West Group) to open a discussion on the efficacy of the proposed Bus Connects routes and the viability of an alternative option.

The SDCPPN objective in hosting the meeting was to facilitate a community driven discussion on proposed transport routes, how these routes impact local communities and to highlight the work that one community has done in exploring what they believe would work best in their community.

The Metro South West Group have researched extensively and developed a position on the best transport option for their area (Rathfarnham, Terenure, Templeogue). They argue that the underground Metro that will be built on the North side of the city should not cease at Charlemont as proposed, instead it should continue from the city on to Knocklyon/Firhouse providing the best possible transport option for their area.

The presentation was delivered by Pauline Foster and Sean Ward and can be seen here.

New planning application for 85 Templeogue Road - six storreys, 55 units

(Photomontage for proposed Block A from VEC Sports Grounds, as submitted by developer)

A new planning permission request has been submitted for a block of 55 units for the site at 85 Templeogue Road, which was originally granted planning approval for 39 dwellings in July 2017.

There will be only 56 parking spaces for 5 studio, 14 one bed, 33 two bed and 1 three bed apartment plus 2 three bed houses. The proposed new building will also now have SIX Floors. While it is an obvious site for development, there are concerns about the current proposal. Full details can be obtained from the Dublin City Council website, planning reference 2065/20.

The Terenure Residents’ Association intends to submit an objection. If you agree with our assessment, you might like to consider sending one in yourself. It should be addressed to:

The Executive Manager, Planning Department, Dublin City Council, Wood Quay, Dublin 8

and quote the reference number 2065/20. Submissions must be accompanied by a fee of €20. Submissions can be made on line from the page the reference number will pull up, or by post. Last day for the Council to receive submissions is Friday 20th February. 



We have been asked to circulate a list of bullet points which may be useful in making a submission.
• Height of building (6 storeys). Much higher than surrounding buildings
• Bulky, block like appearance
• Overdevelopment of a small site
• Domineering impact on that part of Templeogue Road, overlooking of properties with terraces and balconies on all elevations
• No increase in parking spaces for the additional 16 apartments. 52 resident parking spaces and 4 visitor parking spaces for 55 residences is totally inadequate. There may be more than the 90 plus cars owned by tenants of the building, taken together with visitors the surrounding roads will be choked with parked cars. There is no available parking for extra cars on surrounding residential roads
• Deficient in terms of the provision of open space
• Slab like design
• Having regard to the existing pattern of development in the vicinity, the proximity to a residential conservation area, the proposed development would be unduly obtrusive and out of scale with the surrounding buildings
• Additional traffic
• Inadequate access for fire brigade to rear of building
• Inadequate access for waste removal trucks
• Difficulties caused by vehicles entering and leaving the site
• A development in this location should cater for empty nesters downsizing
• Allowing a building like this in such a location will set a bad precedent.


Should you wish to contact the TRA Planning Officer Jim Dowling directly, you can email him at
planning@terenureresidentsassociation.ie

Metro South West/BusConnects - Public Meeting 27 January @ Spawell

A group calling itself Metro South West is making a presentation entitled

"BusConnects - A Community Perspective" on

Monday 27th January

at 7pm

at Spawell Complex, Templeogue

Hosted by South Dublin Council public participation network.

(SDC Public Participation Network is an independent network that facilitates the voice of all community, environment and social inclusion groups in the South Dublin County Council area)

River Dodder Flood Alleviation - Public Meeting Tuesday 14th January

Change Your Life for the New Year - ADDITIONAL REGISTRATION DATE THIS WEDNESDAY

Dublin City Sport and Wellbeing Partnerships are running an "Operation Transformation" type Change for Life programme at the Evergreen Hall in Terenure starting on January 15th.

An additional registration date for the course is being held at the Evergreen Hall (rear of car park on Terenure Road North) this Wednesday, 8th January at 6.30pm.

Further information is available from Michelle at Dublin City Council
michelle.malone@dublincity.ie

 

Art Exhibition and Sale, This Weekend @ Brighton Road

Local artists' art exhibition and sale of work in aid of Phakamisa, an African charity for Aids orphans,

RATHGAR METHODIST CHURCH

BRIGHTON ROAD, RATHGAR, DUBLIN 6

Saturday 14th December 2019, 8.30AM - 4PM

(Breakfast available 8.30 – 11.30AM)

and

Sunday 15th December 2019, 2.00PM - 4PM

Admission FREE!
Refreshments available.