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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

Officer

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


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.

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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


James' Hospital Campus, Satellite Centres at Tallaght Connolly


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


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

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Fingal County Council

County Hall

Main

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Swords

County Dublin

5th October 2 15

Dear Sir/Madam,

Re:

Health Infrastructure Development comprising National Paediatric


James' Hosp ital Campus, Satellite Centres at Tallaght

&

Connolly


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Enclosed for your information are two copies

of

submissions received by the Board

in

relation

to

the above mentioned


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

An

Bord Pleamila reference number

in

any correspondence or telephone contact with the Board.

Yours faithfully,

ran Somers

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South Dublin County Council

County Hall

Tallaght

Dublin 24

5th October 2015

Dear Sir/Madam,

Re:

Health Infrastructure Development comprising National Paediatric


James Hospital Campus, Satellite Centres at Tallaght Connolly


An Bord Pleamila

Enclosed for your information are two copies

of

submissions received by the Board in relation to the above mentioned


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

cutive Officer


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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

Me

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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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give us very much

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

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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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