Two new benches have been installed on Granitefield Green, for all residents to rest and relax whilst enjoying the beautiful view of the Dublin mountains. Now adults have somewhere to stop and think or supervise children as they play on the green. They were funded by the JRA with the support of Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council parks
“Firstly I would like to apologise for the delay in providing a response to your query. As you are probably aware we have received a large volume of correspondence in relation to a number of issues in the Cabinteely/ Johnstown area since the Pedestrian & Cycle Improvement Scheme were completed. The works at the N11 junction
Firstly our thanks to all those who have supported this to date, Cllr Patricia Stewart and Jim Gildea have just confirmed the following feedback from the engineer assigned. (who is should be added seems to have been hit recently with the flu and hence the delay in a response) 1) They are aware of problems. The engineer aware of
We are distributing a new Winter 2017/18 early this month and you can see a PDF version, just go to our Newsletter section! Also do you have a young person (18-30 in your household interested in representing Ireland in Europe, see this application form (not onerous) which has a deadline of January 15th: Call for
Calling out for your help if you’re fit and able! Our first monthly litter pick up is planned for this Saturday 17th February at 11am. For this one we are meeting in Granitefield Green and we will provide bags, pickers and gloves. Just for 1 hour and we will bring some coffee/tea and biscuits for
This is a Senior Alert Scheme plus the Care & Repair services which are available for those residents 65+ living in the area – Senior Alert Scheme Leaflet 2017 – Click here to download the PDF leaflet Directory of Services & Organisation for Older People living in Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown – http://dlrppn.ie/directory-of-activities-and-services-for-older-people-in-dun-laoghaire-rathdown/ You can also download from Cormac Devlin’s website the Directory of
Well it has been a busy few months, with a lot of activity with the Council and we are also dealing with an upsurge in Robberies & Break-Ins within the estate. Thankfully our Text & Viber Alerts is bringing more awareness to the community of incidents and the Gardaí are stepping up to assist us.
Working with local councillors and DLRCOCO with our thanks to John Broderick we are having new Children Traffic alert signage being put in on all key roads throughout the estate!
You should all have our Newsletter now and we have placed a digital copy on our Newsletters Page if you would like a Digitial copy. With a lot of tidy up’s done, we approach judging time in July and whilst we are finishing off a refresh of the beds and maintenance, if you see any
Tidy Up Arrangements for Saturday 22nd April: We are asking all residents to focus on their own roads for the tidy up this year and encouraging you to involve any children to help. A number of our volunteers who also distribute and collect annual fees will be on each road. If you have a corner
We are a go! While we await formal Garda Neighbourhood watch, we now have our signage approved by DLRCoCo up at all key points in the estate.
Our AGM was very well attended last night with circa 50 attendees. There was a lot of discussion on some hot topics and it’s was great for all to have the opportunity to vocalise their own views. In attendance with the residents we are thankful to have had attendance from some of the Local councillors,
Woodlands Road Tidy up 11/3/2017 Our first spring clean up and a great team of local men Kevin Kirby, Robert Gubala, Paul O’Riordan, Diarmuid, myself with Larry on hand and Kevin of Fas. (yes we need some ladies next time! ) Thanks to you all for volunteering, we got a lot done in 90mins and
Larry and Diarmuid remember Peter Dunne this morning (11/3/17). Peter was a long standing resident volunteer and sadly passed in the last week. For the last 25 years, Peter looked after this green area as you enter Granitefield, for us all. May he rest in peace.
The committee met with Cabinteely Residents Association on hearing of their desire to draw attention to the Brennanstown Road traffic management scheme, which will impact ourselves. Basically, independent of the large Cherrywood scheme there is potential for 1,000 houses to be put on land off Brennanstown Road. If you get to look at the picture
Our thanks to the new volunteers from the AGM, which we will be in touch with shortly. This year will all be meeting at the corner of Doonanore park and Granville road at 11am . We can then distribute any gloves, pickers and bags that we have to leads from each road. We would like
So our AGM is on March 21st at 8pm in the Johnstown Hall beside the Church. We wrote to all relevant councillors (Killiney/Shankill) and so far we have received confirmation of attendance by: DLR Cathaoirleach & Councillor Cormac Devlin (FF) Councillor Carrie Smyth (Labour) Hugh Lewis (PBP) Jim Gildea (FG) and Sergeant Angelene Conefry, the
For regular updates please have a look at our Facebook page, here is a summary of some items. We distributed 750 calendars that we received from DLRCOCO as a thank you for our participation in the Stop Food Waste workshops in 2016. We did a brief survey of roads and night lighting . We have
Please note the ongoing works on improving the N11/Johnstown Road junction means there will be a temporary road closure upcoming. The following link is the detail of the work, followed by the details of the planned closure , the route and the subsequent new N11 junction. 20160413_n11_johnstown_road_junction_improvement_scheme
