Mr. David Creighton:

I cannot comment but what I would say is that it would seem to make sense, in that if there were adjacent lands and we were developing a new estate today, we would make provision to connect to such lands to facilitate their phased development. St. Patrick's Park, with the layout that existed in 2007, would not have envisaged connection through to the adjacent lands so it would have required significant demolition works to facilitate that connection. The remedial works scheme does not envisage that. What it does envisage is just a controlled, gated access and that access would not be vehicular. It would not be wide enough. We would need in the order of seven metres of total width to provide vehicular access to adjacent lands and that is not what is proposed. It is really a gap between two housing blocks, directly accessed off the public open space so that it is properly overlooked. Currently the uncontrolled access from lanes is off the back lanes and is not properly overlooked or supervised and is really supporting antisocial behaviour. There is currently no way of properly controlling what can happen in those back lanes. It is not envisaged and at this stage we do not have any plans to develop those vacant lands. We have a large proposed development within St. Patrick's Park and we have additional lands within Beechgrove. We have just completed a phase of development there and there are additional serviced lands within Beechgrove which, if we were to look at providing additional units in future housing programmes within Rathangan, is where we would look to first.