Local Cllr. Charlie O’Connor recently enquired regarding the efforts on updating Cookstown Industrial Estate recently “To ask the Chief Executive to present an update on efforts to improve the image of Cookstown Industrial Estate noting the widespread view that everything possible continues to be done to attract employment to the estate.”
The reply from South Dublin County Council entailed the following; “Cookstown is a designated neighbourhood in the Tallaght Local Area Plan (LAP), which provides a new urban structure and a series of specific policies and objectives to support the area in realising it’s full potential as an economic driver in the region. Within the LAP, ‘‘it is a policy of the Council to promote and support the consolidation or relocation of existing employment uses in Regeneration ‘REGEN’ zone areas, such as Cookstown and to upgrade these areas to create further opportunities for regeneration and employment’’. This will be achieved through investment in the delivery of new infrastructure and the regeneration of the area creating a mixed use environment home to more intensive forms of economic activity, innovation and public services”.
The reply continued “This is already happening, with the private sector advancing the development of privately owned sites in the Cookstown area via the planning process, whilst SDCC has taken a lead role in helping to regenerate and improve the image of the Cookstown area. To date, a total of €14.58m of URDF funding is being invested in the Cookstown and central Tallaght area as SDCC is developing a significant public realm project, an innovation centre, a transport mobility hub and the Airton road extension, whilst the Belgard Road North link road is almost fully constructed, which will enhance access and permeability to the area. With a further c.€15m URDF funding recently secured for development in the area, coupled with the fact that SDCC will commence construction of the affordable apartment scheme (133 apartments) at a cost of c.€30m in the Cookstown neighbourhood, it is very clear to see that the image of the Cookstown area is being actively improved and the objectives of the Tallaght LAP are being met”.
