The Circuit Court today refused to issue an injunction against the developers and owners of an allegedly unauthorised construction site at Chianti Park in Brittas.
The injunction had been sought by South Dublin County Council who had issued an enforcement order covering the ongoing development at the site.
There was also an application by a local resident seeking an injunction on the site.
While at one stage it appeared that SDCC and the developers had agreed that work would cease – and Gript understand that this was made known informally to Councillors Linda de Courcy and Paddy Holohan – a compromise was reached.
The case will be heard in full in early December.
It is worth pointing out again that this project appears to have NO planning application, let alone permission. The enforcement order issued by the Council ought to have led to an immediate ceasing of work on the site. It has not.
It is worth recalling in that context that when SDCC ordered Brendan McDonagh to take down a home he had built for his own family on land owned by his family at the top of McDonagh Lane in Brittas that there was no compromise. Down it came.
Councillor Paddy Holohan was attending a Council meeting where he had been given the impression that the work would cease. He said that he could “not understand how this has been allowed continue where people with new born babies are effectively forced to live on a building site.”
He told me that he had asked SDCC for a breakdown on what had happened at the hearing and what is to happen going forward, so that the residents could be informed of what had taken place.