PA0043 SUB ELIDA MAIQUES.pdf

Our Ref: 29N.PA0043 P.A.Reg.Ref:

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Elida Maiques 22 Cameron Square Kilmainham Dublin 8

6th October 2015

Dear 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 Pleanala

An Bord Pleamila has received your recent submission in relation to the above mentioned proposed development and will take it into consideration in its detennination of 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 I 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 An Bord Pleamila when they have been processed by the Board.

If you have any queries in the meantime please contact the undersigned officer of the Board. Please quote the above mentioned An Bord Pleamila reference number in any correspondence or telephone contact with the Board.

Yours faithfully,

n Somers tive Officer

Direct Line:Ol-8737107

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Paul O'Neill National Paediatric Hospital Development Board C/0 G.V.A. Planning & Regeneration Floor 2, Seagrave House 19-20 Earlsfort Terrace Dublin 2

5th October 2015

Dear Sir,


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 officer of the Board.

Please quote the above mentioned An Bord Pleamila reference number in any correspondence or telephone contact with the Board.

Yours faithfully,

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Chief Executive Officer Dublin City Council Civic Offices Wood Quay Dublin 8

5th October 2015

Dear Sir/Madam,


Enclosed for your infonnation 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 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 An Bord Pleanala reference number in any correspondence or telephone contact with the Board.

Yours faithfully,

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Chief Executive Officer Fingal County Council County Hall Main Street Swords County Dublin

5th October 2015

Dear Sir/Madam,


An Bord Pleamila

Enclosed for your information are two copies of submissions received by the Board in relation to the above mentioned proposed development.


If you have any queries in relation to this matter please contact the undersigned officer of the Board. Please quote the above mentioned An Bord Pleanala referencenumberin any correspondence or telephone contact with the Board.

Yours faithfully,

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Chief Executive Officer South Dublin County Council County Hall Tallaght Dublin 24

5th October 2015

Dear Sir/Madam,


An Bord Pleam1Ia

Enclosed for your information are two copies of submissions received by the Board in relation to the above mentioned proposed development.


If you have any queries in relation to this matter please contact the undersigned officer of the Board. Please quote the above mentioned An Bord Pleamlla reference number in any correspondence or telephone contact with the Board.

Yours faithfully,

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Direct Line:Ol-8737107

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Submission from: Elida Maiques €50 Fee enclosed :

Address for correspondence: 22 Cameron Square, Kilmainham, Dublin 8 County Dublin

As a resident of Kilmainham I would like to express my concerns and those of other neighbours about the proposed development of the National Paediatric Hospital (NPH) on the st James's Hospital Campus in Dublin 8; for which we would like to receive your reasoned answers. Our concerns regard both the hospital as a service to sick children from all over Ireland, as well as the pennanent damage it could cause to the local community if planning permission on such site were granted. We would like to highlight the following aspects of the planned NPH:

1. Poor access: The NPH should serve first the children, their parents and visitors, and should help doctors, nurses and all hospital staff heal those children. 75% of seriously ill children live outside the MSO. More than 90% of children are driven by car to hospital. It would seem logical not to force driving parents to come into the metropolis and try to park in an area that is already built up and not so easy to navigate.

2. Very limited green space: The planned hospital contemplates no ground-level green space. Long- and short-term ill children need nature to heal, so do their guardians, siblings and visitors. It is not explained why the NPH should be constrained into the st James's site, instead of using the much bigger, green space in the Connolly Hospital in Blanchardstown.

3. No co-location with maternity hospital: If a children's hospital should be associated with another hospital it should be with a maternity hospital, so that our sick new born children can get immediate attention when they need it. There is no obvious space on the st James's site for a maternity hospital and planning pennission for a maternity hospital has not been sought. An Bard Pleanala should not give planning permission for a children's hospital ahead of planning being granted for a maternity hospital.

4. Either Maternity Hospital or Outpatients wing: No room for the Maternity Hospital without demolishing part of the adult Hospital (the Outpatients). No planning pennission has been sought for this so far.

5. No room for expansion: If the new hospital is expanded it would overshadow and affect deeply the Cameron Square area, for a second phase of the construction (on top of the ten years requested in the planning pennission application). The very NPH is taken up the already limited expansion space of St James's Hospital, and even looking into demolishing part of it.

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6. Costs: Clearing the site prior to development and moving the laundry and the ambulance centre to Davitt Road are really high extra costs, an alternative location, like the one in Connolly, Blanchardstown would not involve such costs, since building from a green site is a lot cheaper.

7. Environmental cost: Cost of generating tons of rubble, not treating it to extract the raw materials and diminish the tonage going to landfill. All the noise, dust, vibration pollution are also very high environmental costs.

8. Subsidence: Risk of subsidence to adjacent houses. At least one garden in Cameron Square had subsidence problems, falling onto the garden below it. With such terrain and precedents of subsidence also in Ceann Fort, how can you ensure houses will keep their integrity?

9. Diminishing sunlight and privacy for residents: The height (7 or 8 storeys above ground level, depending on the source) and scale of the NPH as planned will overwhelm the two-storey houses in the vicinity. The view from their windows would have less portion of visible sky, less sunlight and less privacy.

10.Diminlshing warmth and daylight, attached costs: Houses on Cameron Square, Ceann Fort and South Circular Road will lose daylight. Gardens will lose daylight and warmth. Houses will be colder and more costly to keep warm.

11.Additional traffic (both construction and permanent): Cycling on South Circular Road is quite difficult even with light traffic. It will be impossible with the extra traffic from ambulances, delivery trucks, patients and visitors. Not to mention driving.

12.lnsufficient parking: Just 420 new spaces as part of the development as an existing 540 spaces currently serving St James Hospital and the Trinity Research Centre are to be removed as part of the demolition works required to prepare the site to receive the new National Children's Hospital. The neighbourhood will be swamped with parking from visitors. Cameron Square has already cars parked on the pavement (to allow for cars to go through). Extra parking would also stop the bin collection trucks from coming in and collecting {it has happened already).

13.Construction site at Davitt Road: Extensive to and fro traffic, road surfaces damaged by the extra stress of heavy trucks.

14.Costs of sewer diversion: High cost to divert Drimnagh Sewer.

15.Noise pollution: The noise pollution from construction and later on from traffic and machines operating will make the backyards unpleasant. It will also drive away the remaining birds and other fauna, which are a factor contributing to our health and wellbeing. Noise pollution will also be disruptive of sleep patterns in the neighbouring areas, thus affecting the health of residents on a daily basis.

16.Helipad noise pollution: Noise and vibration coming from the helipad will be a permanent disturbance to residents, patients and remaining local birds and wildlife.

17.Height of Parent's Hostel: The residents have been shown plans with a 3-storey building, the same building was described later in the press as a 4-storey building. Please, clarify. In both instances, it will block sunlight and ventilation for the houses in the vicinity.

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19.New pedestrian traffic around Cameron Square: Once the repair work on the steps from Cameron Square to Mount Brown is finished, this will be a pedestrian entrance to the hospital, with a pathway around the back of the houses, thereby compromising our security and a potential extra noise disturbance.

20.Remaining local natural spot will disappear: The main entrance of the new hospital, as planned, will swallow the patch of grass next to the Rialto Luas stop. On a map this spot of grass may look small, but it is used intensively, and on a daily basis, by families with children, old people, teenagers and dogwalkers. Its disappearance would further deteriorate the area and the quality of life of residents. Also, trees and bushes absorb much of the noise from road and Luas, thus ameliorating the noise pollution. Their disappearance would mean the area would be a lot noisier.

21 .Dust: Laundry will have to be taken indoors to dry, if by tumbledrying, it would cost extra money. Windows will be constantly dirty. Plants in the backyard will suffer. Edible plants would be affected by fumes and dust.

22. Vibration: The backyard plants and human beings will suffer from vibration from drilling during construction. Roots of trees will be affected.

23.Air pollution: The air we breath will be polluted by fumes from all extra traffic, especially during construction, but also later on. In October 2013 air pollution was classified by the World Health Organisation (United Nations) as carcinogenic; being more hannful than passive smoking.

24.Drainage: Local system is currently overloaded.

25.Rats: There will be an invasion of rats once excavation of drains and the construction of a 3-storey basement commence.

26. Traffic: Permanent extra traffic will destroy the possibility of going for a pleasant walk in the area.

27.Destruction of social cohesion: Extra traffic will mean local children will have less opportunities to meet and play outdoors together. Children and their families will be more isolated from one another, the community will be further atomised, divided in household units. Less social cohesion means worst social and mental health, if the community is damaged, so are the individuals that comprise it.

28. Tenants forced to move out: The perspective of spending at least 6 to 10 years living next to a huge construction site will push current home owners to sell and many tenants to move out. In the current situation they will be forced to move further out from town, thus incurring in transport costs, also being uprooted from their neighbourhood.

29.Home owners forced to sell: Again, the perspective of living next to a monstrous construction site may force people to sell against their desire (it is already happening: when the planning permission request was made public, "for sale" signs went up). Who is going to buy such houses? Whoever has the money to pay and wait it out. This is an indirect way of gentrifying the area. Weakening the link of individuals to the land they inhabit affects their social life, the health of the community and the mental health of its members.

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We understand the residents are being asked to make sacrifices for a greater good. If the NPH were actually going to serve its purpose well, across the decades, we would be happy to put up with much disturbance; however, the planned NPH is being shoehorned, with great difficulty, into the St James's site, for reasons unknown to us.

We would like to know why it is so important that the NCH is located in the St James's Hospital location. The Connolly site in Blanchardstown seems to solve many of the problems above listed, it would offer:

• Good access, nationwide • Unlimited parking • Ground helipad (that would take coastguard helicopters) • Significant expansion space (it is 145 acres) • Rotunda hospital scheduled to re-locate there • Superb parkland environment • Low planning risk • Better, Cheaper, Quicker to build at Connolly

Signed

Elida Maiques

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