PEMBROKE WOOD RESIDENTS ASSOCIATION – ISSUES OUTSTANDING FOR COMPLETION OF PEMBROKE WOOD

1.  Safety:

• Speed ramps along the length of Pembroke Park Drive and on the hill of Pembroke Crescent, including a pinch point with table top ramp along straight section of Pembroke Park Drive.  Marked table top ramp to provide natural pedestrian crossing point.  (Sse Figure 1)
• Road markings throughout the estate; “Yield Right of Way” and “Stop” road signage at all junctions.  (See Figure 2)
• Wheelchair ramps at junctions.  Wheelchair ramps retrofitted by Supple along Pembroke Park Drive to be made safe and usable and relocated where necessary.  (See Pigures 3 and 4)
• Hedge and ditch running along main green to be taken out; ground to be levelled such that there is complete visibility onto the main green from Pembroke Park Drive.
• Permanently close perimeter fencing at end of Pembroke Heights.  (See Figure 5)
• Fix all street lighting.  At last count, there were 5 out of order in Pembroke Heights, all out in Foxwood, 9 out of order in Pembroke Crescent and the apartments, 3 out of order in Pembroke Row, 1 gone in each of Pembroke Avnue, Pembroke Meadows, Pembroke Park Drive, Deepark and The Brambles.
• Address the issue of rat-run from the hill at the back of the estate, over gabions at end of Pembroke Heights, down the side walls of houses and into Pembroke Wood.  (See Figure 6)
• Sign over land between Pembroke Heights and Pembroke Crescent to residents of Pembroke Crescent.  (See Figure 7)

 

 

2.  Signage:

• “Pembroke Wood” nameplate to be provided and installed at the entrance to the estate off the R610.  (See Figure Eight)
• Internal directional signage to be provided at junctions.  (see Figure 9)
• Pembroke Crescent nameplate to be replaced with the correct spelling of “Crescent” provided.  (See Figure 11)

 

 

3.  Drainage on lower areas of green hill at Pembroke Crescent to be made good.  (See Figure 12)

 

 

4.  Aesthetics:

• Ivy to be planted at base of retaining wall between Pembroke Row and the apartments so as to provide screening.  (See Figure 12)
• Landscaping to be carried out along the length of wall at Pembroke Heights.  (See Figure 13)
• Additional landscaping to be carried out on main green and along Pembroke Park Drive.  Scheme to be agreed with Residents Association.  (See Figures 14 – 17)
• Landscaping of the green hill at Pembroke Crescent to be carried out in accordance with the Structural Tree Planting Plan agreed with Cork County Council or an alternative landscaping plan to be agreed with the Residents Association.  (See Figures 18, 19)
• Hilly slopes at the back of the estate to be cleared and planted with trees.  Urban forest trails to be laid as described in Planning Application 97/4695.

 

 

5.  Apartments

• Provide easy, clean, dry, safe and wheelchair-friendly access to the car park at the rear of the apartment block from Pembroke Crescent.
• Landscaping both in front of and behind apartments to be carried out in accordance with the Structural Tree Planting Plan as agreed with Cork County Council or an alternative landscaping plan to be agreed with the Residents Association.  (See Figure 20, 21)
• Install electronic gates at entrance/exit to car park and surround the perimeter with attractive railings to match gates.
• Extend parking area into the green opposite The Crescent apartments so as to alleviate on-road parking.

 

 

6.      Reshape the green hill at Pembroke Crescent to comply with proposals for same outlined in Planning Application 97/4695.  (See Figure 22) 

 

 

7.      Provide play areas, courts and playing fields as outlined in Planning Application 97/4695.

 

 

Figures 1 – 22 will be attached shortly