Written answers

Tuesday, 5 July 2011

Department of Environment, Community and Local Government

Urban Renewal Schemes

9:00 pm

Photo of Joan CollinsJoan Collins (Dublin South Central, People Before Profit Alliance)
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Question 411: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that of the total €8,900,437 allocation notified to Sligo Borough Council under the various measures contained in his Department's social housing investment programme for 2011, a sum of €500,000 is to be used for the enhancement of Sligo's main street, O'Connell Street; if funding from the Department's social housing investment programme has been used in the past for the purpose of enhancing city and town centre streets; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18241/11]

Photo of Willie PenroseWillie Penrose (Longford-Westmeath, Labour)
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Under my Department's National Regeneration Programme, funding is provided in respect of a range of measures to facilitate the physical, social and economic regeneration of certain disadvantaged urban communities. Regeneration programmes take a holistic and strategic approach to creating sustainable communities and address issues such as infrastructure deficit generally, accessibility, tenure mix, streetscape and the public realm and including social exclusion resulting from unemployment and economic disadvantage.

In terms of the improvement in the physical environment, beyond just improving housing, this can take many forms ranging from improvements in the landscaping of an area to the provision of new social infrastructure like community centres and the realignment of roads to improve permeability. It is in this context, as part of this year's €2 million allocation for the regeneration of the Eastern Quadrant of Sligo, that my Department is supporting a suite of improvement works to Sligo's O'Connell Street. These works will facilitate the pedestrianisation of the main street, support the overall objectives of the regeneration programme and are in line with similar improvement works in respect of other regeneration schemes.

Photo of Mary Lou McDonaldMary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein)
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Question 412: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if the regeneration projects for O'Devaney Gardens and Dominick Street in Dublin will proceed beyond the relocating-of-households stage over the next 12 months. [18249/11]

Photo of Willie PenroseWillie Penrose (Longford-Westmeath, Labour)
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My Department continues to work closely with Dublin City Council in progressing ambitious regeneration proposals for the two former PPP regeneration projects at O'Devaney Gardens and Dominick Street. The plans for these regeneration projects are currently going through the statutory planning process, following which the City Council will prepare detailed designs and implementation plans for both projects. My Department is supporting the City Council's tenant relocation programme with the objective of facilitating progress once the detailed plans are completed. Demolition works have already been undertaken at Dominick Street and are currently under way at O'Devaney Gardens.

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