Some clarification is required with regard to Kilminchy housing estate in Portlaoise mentioned by two local TD's in this debate.
The management company in Kilminchy was set up as a planning condition for the estate by Laois County Council. Every residential home owner in the estate becomes a member of the management company when they purchase a home.
The management company has responsibility and will only ever have responsibility for managing the 'common areas' of the estate.
The local authority is responsible and always will be for the roads, footpaths, public lighting and other services as areas are taken in charge by them.
At present a large part of the estate but nowhere near 90% is taken in charge.
There are no developers left responsible for the areas as yet not taken in charge who remain in business. The management company which represents all the home owners have requested in writing that the local authority take all these areas in charge.
Kilminchy is the largest housing estate in County Laois with 716 residential properties. There are approximately 13 Acres of grassed 'common area' within the estate managed by the company and the annual management fee for 2015 & 2016 was set at €100.
As far as I am aware in all private estates and even in local authority estates the local authority do not cut grass or maintain common grassed areas.
I for one am glad that the management company exists in Kilminchy because otherwise the estate would be a mess with home owners property prices suffering. Instead the estate continues to climb the tidy estates table and should break into the Premier Division for 2016.
With regard to Kilminchy and the LPT, home owners who pay management fees only pay to maintain common areas. The LPT through the local authority is not and never will be used to fund maintenance of these areas.
JOHN COWHIG
Posted on 1 May 2016 6:24 pm
Some clarification is required with regard to Kilminchy housing estate in Portlaoise mentioned by two local TD's in this debate.
The management company in Kilminchy was set up as a planning condition for the estate by Laois County Council. Every residential home owner in the estate becomes a member of the management company when they purchase a home.
The management company has responsibility and will only ever have responsibility for managing the 'common areas' of the estate.
The local authority is responsible and always will be for the roads, footpaths, public lighting and other services as areas are taken in charge by them.
At present a large part of the estate but nowhere near 90% is taken in charge.
There are no developers left responsible for the areas as yet not taken in charge who remain in business. The management company which represents all the home owners have requested in writing that the local authority take all these areas in charge.
Kilminchy is the largest housing estate in County Laois with 716 residential properties. There are approximately 13 Acres of grassed 'common area' within the estate managed by the company and the annual management fee for 2015 & 2016 was set at €100.
As far as I am aware in all private estates and even in local authority estates the local authority do not cut grass or maintain common grassed areas.
I for one am glad that the management company exists in Kilminchy because otherwise the estate would be a mess with home owners property prices suffering. Instead the estate continues to climb the tidy estates table and should break into the Premier Division for 2016.
With regard to Kilminchy and the LPT, home owners who pay management fees only pay to maintain common areas. The LPT through the local authority is not and never will be used to fund maintenance of these areas.
John Cowhig