Abbots Hill, Biscayne, Seapark & Seamount Malahide

20/10/2023

Covid, allowed a lot of people to take stock of their lives and issues such as friends, family, neighbours & metal health. Some people are lucky enough to be able to make a choice of how they choose to travel to the shops, the doctor and to work. For people who prefer to walk, cycle or use public transport, that’s a choice. When an employee of Fingal County issues a statement like; ‘’The reason that the traffic is backed back up from the traffic lights at the tennis courts to passed the Grand hotel is because people have chosen to get into their cars and drive to the village’’ we know that we have a problem. People should have a choice. People do have a choice. Stand up to this madness!!

20/10/2023

Please review this report,

20/10/2023

This statement is featured on Active Travel and Fingal County Councils web site.
Fingal's large population uses our roads daily, to commute to school, college and work, to visit friends and family and to do business in our towns and villages. 3 in 4 Fingal people say road space should be reallocated for pedestrian and cyclist use.*
It is the mission of Active Travel to make walking, cycling and other Active modes of travel such as public transport the first choice for journeys under 5km. According to the NTA**, more than 25% of car journeys are less than 2km and a further 20% are between 2km and 4km.
So, on a day like today, who is walking and cycling to work. Who works between 2 to 4 Km from their home?

19/10/2023

I am trying to make sense out of way the Active Travel Dept. of Fingal County Council are demanding that we, the locals in the area should agree with a plan to allow universal access to people of al ability’s to take a short cut over a hill that will cost 1 million euro.

19/10/2023

Photo 3 also shows the incline from ground level to the top of the hill. It is greater that the incline we are dealing with in Seapark. Please note that no steps were installed.

Photo 2 also shows the short cut that is used instead of the part., which indicates that the ramp was not installed on the desired lines.

Photo 1 shows the simplicity of the entry point from Jameson Orchard to Paddy's Hill.

To conclude; this standard was used to facilitate people of all ability's to access Paddy's Hill, therefore in my opinion, it sets the precedent for our hill.

19/10/2023

Entrance from Jameson Orchard to Paddys Hill

19/10/2023

Aerial view of ramp from Robs Wall to Paddys Hill

19/10/2023

Robs Wall to Paddys Hill

18/10/2023

A more cost effective plan. Seapark to Knockdara

18/10/2023

So, what’s the problem you might ask? Well any Council Dept. of Fingal C.C. that can spend upwards of 1 million euro on a project and say that its value for money is completely out of touch. The same access can be provided for much less and provide the same access and more. The project has a safety concern. The same project causes a massive problem with houses being overlooked. The same project intends to use more than 100 tons of concrete and steel to replace a green area. Anyone who has built anything knows only too well the procedures you have to go through to obtain planning permission. Active Travel don’t need planning permission to build this project and there not even using their own money, its tax payers money, so why should they be concerned.
There are many examples in the Malahide and Fingal area where access to parks are already in place. Flat of slopes, they are simple and do not distract from the surrounding area. The zoning in this area is ‘’RS’’ Residential. Action now please!

17/10/2023

I am posting this story, which is relevant to the Fingal area. Active Travel want to spend 1 million on a project that can be finished for 30 thousand euro to provide the same access over the hill in Malahide and the Council are concerned about installing a fence for child safety in another area of Fingal. Please read on.

Last Friday, Joanna Smith was outside her home talking about the two small greens in front of her at Sheepmoor View when a ball flew off and onto the road and a young boy ran after it, oblivious to an oncoming car.

The car slowed and stopped, this time. But the threat from vehicles keeps parents around here vigilant.

“Whenever I hear a noise, I rush out,” says Stacy Costigan, who lives in one of the two-storey pebbledash homes that lie to the west of the green. “All parents do.”

For the last few years, residents around Sheepmoor View near Blanchardstown have banded together to make the two green spaces at the heart of their community a place for the neighbourhood’s kids to play.

Mostly, they’ve made improvements themselves.

But they’re still worried, they say, about the risk from scramblers and fast cars that rush past the green – and want Fingal County Council to put up fences to stop the balls and the kids rushing out into the road.

At a recent meeting of the Blanchardstown-Mulhuddart, Castleknock, Ongar Area Committee, Natalie Treacy, a Sinn Féin councillor, put forward a motion asking the council to do just that.

Parks manager Oliver Hoey at first seemed wary of putting up a fence. But later said that marking off some of the area should be possible.

A neighbourhood effort
Decades back, kids around Sheepmoor View had loads of green spaces to play on.

Costigan recalls a time when the houses across the street did not exist. “It was all a huge football pitch,” she said.

Smith points to another area, now all houses and cars. “That used to be the bee field. That was just a huge field, we used to go there and catch bees in it.”

But with each passing year, and more and more homes, the play areas were lost.

At the council meeting, Treacy, the Sinn Féin councillor, who lived in the area when she was younger, said she remembers a playground. “When the infill houses were built, they lost the playground and they never got it replaced since.”

17/10/2023

Exit from Paddy's Hill to the gate at the top of Rob's Wall

16/10/2023

Concerned Parents Of Malahide Fpr Safe School Routes. Thank you for your post. I am 100% in favour of the short cut over the hill. Not just for the school goers of Seapark, but for all people of all abilities. My big issue is the plan proposed by A.T. exsensuates a massive safety issue at the blind corner as well as a massive amount of money to create an installation that we do not need or want.
At present, we the residents who live in Seapark are very aware of the safety issue at the top of the hill at the blind corner. All are welcome to come along on Saturday on Sunday morning to see the issue in person.
At the other end of the road is a cul- de-sac the incline is very low and much safer for all to use, including walkers, people on bikes, buggy’s and wheel chairs. I recently changed the line that was used to come down the hill and I am happy to report that no one has fallen since and no one has come off their bike since then. My suggestion is to open the fence in the cul-de-sac, with a max 10 meter X 3 meter path, same standard as Paddy’s Hill and spend the money on the park. The council are saying that the proposed walking track will be a mowed lane in the grass. People will slip in wet weather or it will not be useable. 1 million when 30 thousand will do it. Please come on board. Believe in the power of 1 to bring about change.

16/10/2023

As someone with concerns about the environment, I simply can't stand by and accept more than 100 tons of concrete and steel, not to mention the carbon footprint, as an answer to allow access to the new park. This will destroy the green area at the top of Seapark forever. There's no need for it. Stop it now!! Join me to create awareness and stop this project before it's too late
I want access.
I want accountability.
I want the same standard entrance as Paddy’s Hill.
I want the same standard entrance as Rob’s Wall
I want the same standard entrance as Jameson Orchard.
Is Knockdara private or has Fingal taken charge?
I am awaiting permission to post the plans of the proposal made by Active Travel to Seapark last Wednesday.

16/10/2023

Anyone who exits Paddy's hill at the top, just before the fork to go to Jameson Orchard, to descend to Robs Wall will have travelled on the V shaped path to the gate. The gradient of this hill is similar to the hill at the top of Seapark if not higher. People of all ages and abilities, with a buggy or a bike can happily ascend and descend with no problem. Is the path on the desired lines, no? Did it cost up to 1 million to put this path in? Active Travel, a department of Fingal County Council are saying that the proposed path across the Old Golf Links Park from Seapark to Seamount has to be built along the desired lines, which means the path people prefer to take, well not in the case for the Robs Wall to Paddy’s Hill. If the standard of build was good enough for Paddy’s Hill, then it’s good enough for me in Seapark. I am trying to persuade the Council to listen to the locals and provide the access for a much lower cost to the taxpayer. Comments please.

15/10/2023

1 million euro for a 20 meter ramp and 30 steps when there are people sleeping in tents on Malahide beach. Better to provide the same access for 30 thousand euro and use the 970 thousand euro to resolve the housing crisis. It is just me that agrees with this?? Come on, get involved!!We need your support.

15/10/2023

I am trying to raise awareness for a proposal by the Active Travel Dept. of Fingal County Council to spend upwards of 1 million euro to provide universal access over the hill from Seapark to Seamount Road. The residents of Seapark are in favour of a short cut and have provided Active Travel with a low impact way of providing universal access for people of all ability’s for a much reduced budget of 30 thousand euro.
I am calling on all residents of Abbots Hill, Biscayne, Seamount, Seapark, Fingal Area and the whole country to voice their suggestions and concerns about a department of Fingal Country Council spending 1 million euro on a short cut over a hill. If you would like more information on the subject, please post to this page.

15/10/2023

Thank you to Ballymore Homes for clearing away the overgrowth at the Seamount Road entrance to the short cut over the old golf links short cut to Seapark.

05/07/2023

Yesterday, I posted a letter of complaint to Fingal CC.

05/07/2023

The Active travel Department of Fingal CC, what to spend hundreds of thousands of euro of tax payers money to build a monument to themselves and are unable to control the path that adjoins it. Just like RTE, we need more transparency in Fingal CC.

05/07/2023

Calling on the Active Travel Dept. of Fingal CC to take action. This is the partway used daily from Seamount Road across the new park to Seapark Hill.

16/06/2023

https://www.independent.ie/regionals/dublin/fingal/fingal-county-council-reports-that-progress-has-been-made-on-old-golf-course-park-in-malahide/41739336.html

Fingal County Council has reported progress on development of the park at the Old Golf Course in Seamount, Malahide, and the provision of the related walking and cycling route through the park.

16/06/2023

https://fb.watch/lbQpId8NgI/