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€300k - Have Your Say Public Vote Commences

€300k - Have Your Say Public Vote Commences

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15/05/2018

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Public voting on South Dublin County Council’s €300k Have Your Say initiative in the Clondalkin Electoral Area has commenced. Residents of Clondalkin, Newcastle and Rathcoole are asked to vote on a shortlist of 24 projects which aim to improve the quality of life for residents, visitors and businesses in the area.

Following a successful pilot in the Lucan Electoral Area in 2017, an amount of €300,000 was allocated by the Council for the Clondalkin Electoral Area.

The Council received 230 submissions during the consultation process which took place during April. Submissions were received online and through a series of local consultations meetings held throughout the area.

The participatory budgeting steering committee, which is made up of Elected Members and Council Officials, reviewed and consolidated all ideas into a comprehensive shortlist. The recommendations were then brought to the full council for approval on Monday, 14th of May.

Participatory Budgeting is an innovative democratic process which facilitates citizens in a local community to directly decide how to spend a portion of a public budget in their area. It gives people direct power to determine spending priorities and to improve their community.

A shortlist of 24 ideas are now up for public vote.

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

  • Christmas Lights, North Clondalkin

  • Replacing of Christmas Lights, Clondalkin Village

  • Renovate the portocabin for the Clondalkin Men’s Shed.

  • To provide gym equipment and activities for the residents of Rathcoole an surrounding areas

  • Community orchard, Clondalkin Electoral area

  • Exercise Machines, Knockmitten park

  • Outdoor Table Tennis table, Clondalkin Area.

  • New playground, Forest Hills estate

  • Development of Collinstown Park, North Clondalkin

  • Planting flowers across the Bawnogue area

  • Bottle banks / recycling facilities, Cherrywood

  • New pavement at 1916 Commemorative Garden/ Gairdín Comórtha

  • Dog park at Collinstown Park

  • Playground in St Mark’s Estate

  • WiFi activated self-guided historical trail of Clondalkin

  • Mosaic art bench project, Collinstown Park

  • Public acoustic Piano for the community centre in Rathcoole

  • Solar powered bench, Civic centre, Clondalkin

  • Irish signs, Clondalkin

  • On street bicycle pump, Clondalkin Village

  • Pedestrian link between the Round Tower and Corkagh Park

  • Restoration of Old Nangor Road water pump

  • Welcome to Clondalkin hedge signage

  • Safety study of Clondalkin’s public spaces.

The voting process for the shortlisted projects takes place from the 15 to the 27 of May 2017 inclusive.

Local residents will be able to vote online at http://www.southdublin.ie/HaveYourSay/.

Alternatively, voting can be done in person from 4pm to 7pm on Monday 21 May, 2018 in the following locations in the Clondalkin Electoral Area:

  • Clondalkin Library

  • Newcastle Community Centre

  • Rathcoole Community Centre

  • Neilstown Community Centre

Residents can also vote between 9am and 5pm on Monday, 21 May, 2018 at the following location:

  • Civic Offices in Clondalkin.

There is no age restriction on voting and you do not have to be on the Register of Electors to vote. It is now in the hands of the public to decide which of the projects they would like to see being delivered to their area!

Log on to our website http://www.southdublin.ie/HaveYourSay/ and social media channels for updates.

 

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For more information see http://www.southdublin.ie/HaveYourSay/

or communications@sdublincoco.ie

 

South Dublin County is one of four local authority areas in the Dublin region.

South Dublin County Council provides and funds a broad range of services including housing, roads, walking and cycling routes, parks and playgrounds, libraries, sports facilities, litter control, arts centres, enterprise units, fire services, community infrastructure and financial supports. It also serves as a platform for local democracy with 40 councillors spread across six electoral areas.

Bounded by the River Liffey to the North and the Dublin Mountains to the South, the County lies 16 kilometres south west of Dublin city centre and has an administrative footprint of 223sq. kilometres. The County has nine main villages Clondalkin, Lucan, Palmerstown, Rathfarnham, Tallaght, Templeogue, Saggart, Rathcoole and Newcastle and is bounded by adjoining counties of Wicklow, Kildare, Dublin City, Fingal and Dun Laoghaire.

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