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Our Ref: 29N.PA0043
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Nigel Buchalter
4 McDowell venue
Ceannt Fort
Mount Brown
DOS W6TE
8th October 2015
Dear Sir,
Re: Health Infrastructure Development comprising National Paediatric
Hospital, Innovation Centre and Family Accommodation Unit
at
St
James' Hospital Campus, Satellite Centres at Tallaght & Connolly
Hospitals and Construction Compound at Davitt Road, Dublin.
An Bord Pleamlla
n Bord Pleamila has received your recent submission in relation to the above mentioned proposed development and will
take it into consideration in its determinationof the matter. A receipt for the fee lodged is enclosed.
The Board will revert to you in due course with regard to the matter.
Please be advised that copies of all submissions observations received in relation to the application will be made
available for public inspection at the offices
of
Dublin City Council, Fingal County Council and South Dublin County
Council and at the offices of n Bord Pleamila when they have been processedby the Board.
If
you have
any
queries in the meantime please contact the undersigned officer
of
the Board. Please quote the above
mentioned n Bord Pleanala reference number in any correspondence
or
telephone contact with the Board.
Yours faithfully,
K i e ~ a n Somers
S y x e ~ u t i v e
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Direct Line:Ol-8737107
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Paul O'Neill
National Paediatric Hospital Development Board
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Planning Regeneration
Floor 2, Seagrave House
19-20 Earlsfort Terrace
Dublin 2
5th October 2015
Dear Sir,
Re: Health Infrastructure Development comprising National Paediatric
Hospital, Innovation Centre and Family Accommodation Unit at St
James' Hospital Campus, Satellite Centres at Tallaght Connolly
Hospitals and Construction Compound at Davitt Road, Dublin.
Enclosed for your information is a copy
of
submission(s) received by the Board in relation to the above mentioned
proposed development.
If
you have any queries in relation to the matter please contact the undersigned officerof the Board.
Please quote the above mentioned An Bord Pleanala reference number in any correspondenceor telephone contact with
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Chief Executive Officer
Dublin City Council
Civic Offices
Wood Quay
Dublin 8
5th October 2015
Dear Sir/Madam,
Re Health Infrastructure Development comprising National Paediatric
Hospital, Innovation Centre and Family Accommodation Unit at St
James' Hospital Campus, Satellite Centres at Tallaght Connolly
Hospitals and Construction Compound at Davitt Road, Dublin.
Enclosed for your information are two copies of submissions received by the Board in relation to the above mentioned
proposed development.
Please ensure that a copy of each submission is available for public inspectionat the officesof the planning authority.
If
you have any queries in relation to this matter please contact the undersigned officer of the Board. Please quote the
above mentioned
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Chief Executive Officer
Fingal County Council
County Hall
Main
Street
Swords
County Dublin
5th October 2 15
Dear Sir/Madam,
Re:
Health Infrastructure Development comprising National Paediatric
Hospital, Innovation Centre and Family Accommodation Unit at St
James' Hosp ital Campus, Satellite Centres at Tallaght
&
Connolly
Hospitals and Construction Compound at Davitt Road, Dublin.
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of
submissions received by the Board
in
relation
to
the above mentioned
proposed development.
Please ensure that a copy
of
each submission is available
for
public inspection
at the
offices
of he
planning authority.
If
you
have any queries
in
relation
to
this matter please contact
the
undersigned officer
of the
Board. Please quote the
above mentioned
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in
any correspondence or telephone contact with the Board.
Yours faithfully,
ran Somers
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Chief Executive Officer
South Dublin County Council
County Hall
Tallaght
Dublin 24
5th October 2015
Dear Sir/Madam,
Re:
Health Infrastructure Development comprising National Paediatric
Hospital, Innovation Centre and Family Accommodation Unit at St
James Hospital Campus, Satellite Centres at Tallaght Connolly
Hospitals and Construction Compound at Davitt Road, Dublin.
An Bord Pleamila
Enclosed for your information are two copies
of
submissions received by the Board in relation to the above mentioned
proposed development.
Please ensure that a copy
of
each submission is available for public inspection at the offices of he planning authority.
If you have any queries in relation to this matter please contact the undersigned officer
of
the Board. Please quote the
above mentionedAn Bord Pleamila referencenumberin any correspondenceor telephone contact with the Board.
Yours faithfully,
ran Somers
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Direct Line:Ol-8737107
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Mr
Ferns in number 2 McDowell Avenue also does shift work and keeps an aviary
in
his
backyard.
He
worries that his birds will not manage to survive through the demolition,
noise, dust and vibrations.
These may seem like only small insignificant points with which to object to, but the heavy
handedness and lack
of
consultation makes us feel very uneasy.
Having looked
at the
drawing
of
the South Elevation i t
s
easy to
see
that
our
ground level
is
well below that
of
the proposed site. It is then easy to understand
how tall
and close
the
CRIC could be which leads me to the question of our unique estate protected b
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conservation area. I believe it is much
too
close to our houses on
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are protected under the Architectural and Conservation Areas in the l(f:lfepment - B'l _
management process.
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I have enlarged, copied and pasted part
of
Section 3, drawing number ~ R O _ _ .
NPH-A-OCMA-DR-XX-CR-3001 so that we may see how intrusive the b ~ W r be:tt Ts
also worth noting
that
the drawings are all dated August 2015. Unfor t idf i f=
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time
to comment and voice our concerns.
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My feeling that i t
s
very dangerous to plan and construct, such a building along with the
waste disposal, oil tank and
gas
bottle storage areas so close to our houses. It can be seen
very clearly that it
s
a very tight squeeze to fit it all in. The drawing even shows that it
s
4986 mm from the gable wall
of
number one McDowell Avenue to
the
proposed CRIC
building. I believe it should be much wider than this to allow for sensible landscaping and
screening. The sheer depth
of the
basements in the drawings adds to
my
concern. I
don't
believe that any proper surveying has been carried
out
to test
the
type
of
soil to be
removed, and when doing so
what
safety measures will be
put in
place.
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Unfortunately
the
incorrect naming
of
the derelict building which
the
developer wants
to
demolish that these drawings and plans may cause offence to those who know the history
of the site. This historic
but
unprotected building, once had a very grand frontage
onto
James's street and was not a schoolhouse as stated on the drawings
but
part
of
the old
workhouse, known
at the
time
as
Bedlam.
Drawing number NPH-A-OCMA-DR-00-CR-1002 shows the positioning
of
the gas bottles, oil
tank and
with
the Trinity and Research waste all very close together. I am very concerned
about this
as
I don't know
what
kind
of
waste will be there. In such a confined space wi ll
there be any disaster evacuation plan?ls there access for emergency vehicles?
Can
a fire
engine drive easily
to
this area?
Residents on McDowell Avenue were never at any time inform
consulted about their concerns over the enormity
of
the CRIC.
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n the Inspector's Report i t mentions a meeting on the 23 Jun 2015 when the prospective
applicant introduced a research and innovation centre CRIC) a h 1 l h l M ~ A ruter:afi 'lffHje
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These drawings were only produced on the 6 August and hand d'lnoa
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leaving very li ttle time,
If
any,
for
residents to view them and voice their concerns.
The document regarding microclimate which I have read from
http://www.nchplanning.ie/wp-content/uploads/2015 07/Chapter-13-Micro-Ciimate.pdf
States; "The Children's Research and Innovation Centre
is
a modest building consistent with
the prevailing height, nature and scale
of
existing and on-going development within this
developed urban context."
The use
of
the word modest
is
extremely misleading by virtue
of the
fact that
the
drawings
show how our houses will be dwarfed.
Had the plans shown a realistically modest building in keeping in size with
the
original
building and retaining the fa ;ade on James's Street then I would have found this far more
acceptable.
The deep level
of
excavation will unleash an invasion of rats, and from one of
the
reports
the
chances of legionnaires disease from trapped spores suggests that we are in grave
danger being so close
to
the site.
As
I am wri ting this I have just been informed
that
there are currently signs in
the
private
wards
of
StJames's Hospital on
the
side where there are ongoing building works that warn
of
the release of aspergillus spores
into the
atmosphere, which are harmful
to ill
and elderly
folk.
While it is
right
to place the warning notice in the Hospital wards, why were there no
preventative measures
put
in place before commencement of building works? If
that Is
just
one area
of
building works being carried where these spores have been released, then I am
very concerned about what may happen if demol ition and excavation work starts.
It
could
be much worse then and
too
late
to
do
anything about it.
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The proposed Mount Brown Entrance
I would like to see some
further
survey
work
done on this as i t going to
be
a major
transformation of a site that has been vacant for twenty years or longer. t may look like
waste ground to a developer, but it is an important local habitat
for
flora and fauna. t is
rare
to
see blue Corn flowers
Centaurea cyanus)
so close
to
a city.
t
is very rare
to
see
them at
all even in
the
countryside since modern farming has wiped them along with
the
corncrake almost into extinction.
What
other wildl ife lives there undisturbed? I will very
much miss that small patch
of
wild meadow. The high grey fencing along
the
front does
~
make
i t
look a
bit
daunting to
the
passer by. Again there are r
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and tunnelling and
the
adverse effects. N
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I have found nothing that inspires confidence in defending us against these spores.
Monitoring them is not good enough. What type of monitoring will occur, how we wil l be
alerted?
Is
the Development Board responsible for rehousing us and kennelling our pets and
paying the costs? Damage to houses caused by vibration and subsidence, will we be warned
in advance or given ample time to make alternative accommodation arrangements?
t is not only the aspergillus spores that worry me, but other dust particles containing
irritants to the lungs may be released during excavation and demolit ion. Also a large volume
of
trucks leaving the site will be releasing these particles and also on their way back if there
is no de-sanitisation methods put in place. I am beginning to feel
that
whoever is made
responsible
for
overseeing all
the
health and safety duties will find the task so diff icul t
that
they themselves will wish that a more preferable site had been chosen.
t is also incomprehensible to me that the St James site was chosen af ter the Dolphin
Report, which suggested that the best sight for the NCH is
at
James Connolly Memorial
Hospital in Blanchardstown.lt s overall cost being much less and the savings
the
government would make could go towards
other
much needed areas.
The St. James s campus is very restrictive in terms of future expansion, why try shoehorning
this oversized project into an unsuitable site that has
so
much important history within it.
Surely we can learn from previous mistakes in our year coming up to
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commemoration. Are
we
not supposed to look after
our
children, sick and elderly folk as
best as we can?
The utter chaos, mayhem and general disruption can be
so
easily avoided
i f
we take
the
Dolphin report seriously.
To quote from
the
Dolphin report on page 78 the following two paragraphs are
of
interest.
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[From a clinical and academic perspective, we identif ied StJames s Hospital
as the
existing
OATH
(Dublin Academic Teaching Hospitals)
that
best meets
the
criteria
to
be the
adult
partner
in co-location because
it
has the
broadest range
of
national specialties and excellent
research and education infrastructure.
However,
the
proposed St. James s Hospital plan of fers
the
smallest site
for
construction
of
the
new
children s hospital, albei t
with
greater site capacity overall
see
Table 1 on page 48},
has some drawbacks
in terms of
site suitabi lity and
is
not without
planning risk] .
t looks like
they
favoured the first paragraph
only
and ignored the warnings
of
the second
paragraph.
During November 2012
the
Irish Independent printed the following article following a
meeting in
the
Dail.
PU LISHED 07 /2012 I 05:00
From this article
the
following quotes I have pasted here.
[Health Minister Dr
James
Reilly has already admitted
that
there
Ts n > w n o n c
the project being finished by the original deadline
of
2016.
The
new site falls
short
of
the
medical ideal
of
tri-location, whereby
an
adult,
children's and maternity hospital are all
part
of
a
near
network.
There were concerns about not choosing a green field site namely James Connolly
Hospital in
Blanchardstown
which local TDs
Joan
Burton
and
Leo Varadkar both
supported.
Cabinet sources said a number
of
ministers raised the question
of
the greenfield site
and
the
concerns over James's .
Ms Burton
and
Mr Varadkar -- who both represent Dublin West, where Connolly
Hospital is located-- put a case for the green field site in Blanchardstown].
I
am
quite puzzled as to why the St. James's site
has
been chosen, considering
that
it's extra cost
of
moving the Drimnagh sewer could cost 10 million and
underground parking a further
30
million.
We should learn from
our
recent mistakes. The
Mso
when first planned seemed to be
exactlywhatwe needed. On completion we realised that perhaps we could have
added another lane
and
some
of the
junctions needed redesigning. Luckily we
had
room to expand
and
it is now a success. The Red Cow roundabout was another
example.The Dublin Port Tunnel took longer than expected due various delays.
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Residents in Marino experienced problems with subsidence. There
are more
examples but I would rather remain on a positive ending for my objection.
Let s get it right this time, whether
it
is Tallaght Hospital, James Connolly Memorial
green field site or
another
site close
to the Mso,
it will cost less, be finished
more
quickly
and
suit the whole country
and
will have room for further expansion. I
think
it is very unwise to risk developing the St. James s site. Have enough studies been
done on light deprivation, risk assessment reports,
has
the EIS report covered
everything? The development board have given us a very impressive 3D model of
what
it
should look like. But I don t see any room for further expansion on
the
site.
Is it morally and democratically wrong
to
go to such expense and time
to
build upon
the site
of
St.
James s
Hospital? The plans
are
for a new children s hospital,
so
it
ought
to be
built for sick children. Shouldn t we let
it be
built on a green site where
no one s lives will be upset or homes endangered during demolition and subsidence
from deep excavation?
Does
it
really
matter
which political party is
in
power
at the
time of building
the
hospital?
t
won t make
any
difference
to
all the sick children who
can be
cured from
now and into the future.
f t
does take a few more months or a year
to
successfully
acquire
the
correct site
then let
it be. We should
not
feel
under
pressure
to start
digging
next
week just because we
can t
wait
any
longer.
I believe
the
residents ofMcDowell Avenue, all streets
in
Ceannt Fort, Mount Brown,
James s
Street, Cameron Square, South Circular Road, deserve
to
have their daily
lives undisturbed. We can all
put
up with a six
month
disturbance when one our
neighbours improves
their
homes with
an
extension,
but
a project
on
a scale
so
large
as the New Children s Hospital with its research facility
and
accommodation
including further expansion then I
think it
is only fair
and
right
to
build on
the
suggested appropriate sites.
Yours sincerely
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Nigel Buchalter
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28 September, 2015
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