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Donabate and Portrane Community Council
Donabate Local Area Plan to be revised

Donabate Portrane Community Council is relieved that Fingal Co. Co have agreed to revise the current Donabate Local Area Plan (LAP) following representations that the current plan is no longer suitable given the economic downturn.

The current plan allows for 5,000 new homes to be built in the Donabate Area (not including Portrane) with the potential for a population increase of over 15,000.  The community council feels that this is too large an increase for our peninsula to support and so is pleased that the Local Area Plan (LAP) is to be revised.

Fingal Co. Co has asked for submissions to be made from interested parties.  The community council is engaging with local interested groups and would be delighted to hear any views or suggestions on how the next LAP should look so that we can evaluate and include in our submission. (email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ). You can also make your own submission directly to Fingal Co. Co by the closing date December 15th 2011.  The community council is seeking an extension of this date to the end of January to allow for proper public consultation.

For full information on the proposed LAP see the Fingal Co. Co. website:

http://www.fingalcoco.ie/Planning/PlanningItemsOnDisplay/ProposedLAP-Donabate/

Booklets and a display map are also available in the community centre
 
Portrane ruled out as location for monster sewage plant

Following publication today 10th October of the site selection process for the proposed regional sewage plant we can breathe a sigh of relief that our peninsula has not been chosen as one of the 9 possible sites.

Donabate Portrane Community Council and Fairshare the local group set up over five years ago to oppose the siting of the giant sewage plant on the peninsula  feel the community’s efforts in opposing the plant being dumped on the area played a huge part in the decision of Fingal County Council to seek alternative sites.

The county council is now considering nine alternative locations for the plant:

• Annsbrook, approximately 2.5km north east of Ballyboghil (Ballyboughal) (62 hectares).

• Baldurgan, approximately 1.6km south east of Ballyboghil (57 ha).

• Cloghran, approximately 2.2km east of Dublin Airport and 3.3km south of Swords (32 ha).

• Clonshagh (Clonshaugh), approximately 2.5km east of Dublin Airport and 1.3km north of Belcamp and Darndale (40 ha).

• Cookstown, approximately 2.5km south east of Ballyboghil (80 ha).

• Newtowncorduff, approximately 2.2km west of Lusk (43 ha).

• Rathartan, approximately 2 km west of Rush and 3km to the east of Lusk (41 ha).

• Saucerstown, approximately 3.3km north west of Swords (36 ha).

• Tyrrelstown Little, approximately 2.8km north east of Lusk and 3.6km north west of Rush (114 ha).

Full details including maps of the proposed 9 sites are on the website www.greaterdublindrainage.ie

Well done to all residents who participated in what has been an uphill battle over many years, following the original naming of Portrane as a suitable site.

We will support other groups if they seek our aid in stopping their communities being blighted with this monster sewage plant.

 
 
Donabate Tidy Towns 5 points increase!

Donabate Tidy Towns is 5 points up at 256 points in this year’s National Tidy Towns competition.  Donabate Portrane Community Council would like to thank all volunteers who helped to make Donabate a better place in which to live, work and play this year.

Congratulations are also due to the Transition Towns Donabate Portrane group who were nominated by the Donabate Tidy Towns committee in the Tidy Towns Comhar special award category of Sustainable Development and who won highly commended plus a cheque for €500. As a community it is great to see the weekly market run by the Transition Towns group supporting local producers and growers. See ww.ttdp.ie for details of how you can volunteer or see the group’s activities and become part of sustainability on our peninsula.

On Sat  24th Sep and on the following few Saturdays Transition Towns Donabate Portrane will juice your autumn apple crop free of charge at the Saturday market in St Patrick's Parish Hall car park 10.30am-3pm. Bring your apples and sterlised containers.
 
Official opening of Donabate Community College

There were scenes of great joy at the official opening of the Donabate Community College as four years of students paraded through Donabate on this momentous day.

The opening of the 1000 pupil community college brings to an end a campaign that has spanned 20 years for a secondary school in the area. In a statement Bob Dowling former Chairperson of the Donabate secondary school committee said the there was now endless possibilities for adult education for the area in the future.
 
Although many people helped in the campaign for the school, former TD Jim Glennon assisted in getting the secondary school action group with a meeting with the then Minister for Education Mary Hanafin in 2005. In addition former Fingal County Manager John Tierney gave exceptional assistance in dealing with land issues and facilitated the temporary school that opened in 2008.
 
David Moore, secretary of the Community Council and member of the education sub committee said it was a measure of this community that two schools, Educate Together and Donabate Community College have opened within a week in the middle of a recession. Gone are the days when our children have to cram onto trains or be educated in draughty prefabs. The remaining piece for the Ballisk education campus is  the provision of a public library at the site of the old Educate Together prefab site. The community council will be making sure that the provision of this library remains a priority for our community.

 

 

Photo: members of the Secondary School Committee from left to right

Alan O Meara,Pam O'Shea,Bob Dowling, David Moore , Karl Harte.
 
Donabate Tidy Towns 5 points increase!

Donabate Tidy Towns is 5 points up at 256 points in this year’s National Tidy Towns competition.  Donabate Portrane Community Council would like to thank all volunteers who helped to make Donabate a better place in which to live, work and play this year.

Congratulations are also due to the Transition Towns Donabate Portrane group who were nominated by the Donabate Tidy Towns committee in the Tidy Towns Comhar special award category of Sustainable Development and who won highly commended plus a cheque for €500. As a community it is great to see the weekly market run by the Transition Towns group supporting local producers and growers. See ww.ttdp.ie for details of how you can volunteer or see the group’s activities and become part of sustainability on our peninsula.

On Sat  24th Sep and on the following few Saturdays Transition Towns Donabate Portrane will juice your autumn apple crop free of charge at the Saturday market in St Patrick's Parish Hall car park 10.30am-3pm. Bring your apples and sterlised containers.
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