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€300k - Have Your Say Public Vote 22nd -26th May 2017

€300k - Have Your Say Public Vote 22nd -26th May 2017

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16/05/2017

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South Dublin County Council would like to thank everyone in the Adamstown, Lucan and Palmerstown areas who submitted an idea for the €300k – Have Your Say Initiative. We received 160 suggestions during the consultation process. A shortlist of 17 ideas are now up for the public vote.

Voters will be able to choose their favourite ideas up to the value of €300,000 from the following list:

  1. Tree Sculpture, Waterstown Park, Palmerstown

  2. Playground in Waterstown Park, Palmerstown

  3. Feasibility Study and Seed Capital towards a New Youth Space for Lucan Electoral Area

  4. Grow your Own Allotments, Lucan

  5. Men’s Shed at Esker Cemetery, Lucan

  6. Feasibility Study for New Pedestrian Bridge across the Liffey at Lucan Demesne

  7. Access to Church and Graveyard at Mill Lane, Palmerstown

  8. Feasibility Study for the Restoration of Silver Bridge, Palmerstown

  9. Street Sculpture in Lucan Village Centre

  10. Heritage Trail in Lucan Village

  11. Volunteer Public Park Guides- Lucan Electoral Area

  12. Restoration of King John’s Bridge Griffeen Park- Lucan

  13. Christmas Lights in Lucan Village

  14. Free Library Book Banks in Public Places-Lucan Electoral Area

  15. Consultation Process for the Construction of new Central Plaza/Focal Point in South Lucan

  16. Multi-Games Wall in Lucan

  17. Planting Native Apple Trees, Lucan Electoral Area

The voting process for the shortlisted projects will take place from the 22nd to the 26th of May 2017 and local residents will be able to vote online at http://sdcc.ie/haveyoursay.

Alternatively, voting can be done in person from 6.30 pm to 8.30 pm on Thursday 25th of May at the following locations in the Lucan Electoral Area:

  • Adamstown – St. John the Evangelist NS, Adamstown, Lucan, Co. Dublin

  • Lucan – Lucan Leisure Centre, Griffeen Valley Park, Lucan, Co. Dublin

  • Palmerstown – Palmerstown Youth and Community Centre, Palmerstown Shopping Centre, Kennelsfort Road Upper, Dublin 20

Mayor Guss O’Connell strongly encourages you to participate and exercise your vote for the benefit of your community, he added “You the residents of Palmerstown, Lucan and Adamstown have an opportunity open to no other community on the island of Ireland: to decide by popular vote how €300K is spent in improving your area. The items you are asked to choose between have been proposed by the people of this area and all are equally worthy of consideration. For the first time in Ireland the public are offered the opportunity to participate in determining the budget of a local authority. Whatever gets the majority votes will be acted on by the Council”

There is no age restriction on voting and you do not have to be on the Register of Electors to vote. So make sure you take the opportunity to have your say!

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