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Council demolishes Drimnagh eyesores

Monday, 24 March 2008

DUBLIN City Council has demolished two cottages and cleaned up the illegally dumped refuse that surrounded them following a request to the local authority for information on the issue from Southside People.
A resident in Drimnagh contacted this newspaper recently to say that he was appalled at the level of illegal dumping on Rafters Lane and in a fenced-off area where the three cottages were situated beside the lane.
Declan O’Leary said he had to walk past the cottages every day on his way to and from work and was baffled as to why the council could not clean up the refuse, which he described as a “health hazard”.
“Simple measures should be enforced to keep the area clean and oblige people to have respect for their locality and the council are the only people who can really enforce or take action to ensure that these things are kept in order,” he said.
“Currently, with so much emphasis on environmental issues and the Tidy Towns Competition, it is unbelievable that this is just left there. It’s a health hazard and it’s unsightly.”
Mr O’Leary said the refuse consisted mainly of domestic waste and that the problem had been ongoing for almost a year.
“Someone must own those properties and must be responsible for maintaining them and I cannot see the difficulty in chasing it down,” he added.

Mr O’Leary wrote to local Cllr Charlie Ardagh (FF) about the matter. Speaking to Southside People, Cllr Ardagh said he too had several concerns about the site.
“The person who owns the site needs to do something with the it or the council needs to CPO the site because there is a serious lack of development potential in the area for housing,” he said.
“There are only three cottages there but they could be renovated and put to better use. This place is quite dangerous as well as there is some fencing around it.
“If you own a house and there is litter dumped in your front garden, for example, the city council can fine you for that, so it would be interesting to know if the council have fined the owner of this site.”
Following the complaint from Mr O’Leary, Southside People contacted the council to find out who owned the site and the cottages contained within the fenced off area. We also asked if the local authority had fined anyone for the persistent litter problem.
The Local Crumlin Area Housing Manager for the council confirmed that two of the cottages belonged to Dublin City Council and said they were “due to be demolished in the near future”.
They confirmed that a third cottage is being administered through the Criminal Assets Bureau.
“The CAB will be disposing of the property but I do not have a timeline on this,” he said.
“The city council has cleaned these sites in the past. Two men and a truck have been assigned to clean the entire site, including the CAB property by arrangement with the Housing Manager.
“In order to prevent the site deteriorating in the future, this will be done on a monthly basis. As the City Council owns two of the properties, the whole issue of litter fines does not arise. Ownership of the third cottage only became known recently.”
Mr O’Leary has since contacted Southside People to inform us that the city council had demolished two of the three cottages and cleaned up all the litter.

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