Think the parking crunch on your road is just an inconvenience? It could be blocking emergency access—here’s what’s being proposed and why your input now matters.
Parking problem
More people live in our area now.
More people also own cars and vans.
In Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown County there are over 1.3 cars for every home.
This means:
- More traffic on our roads
- Not enough parking space and
- More delays for drivers and buses.
If you have trouble parking near your home, this article is for you.
Where are the worst LOCAL parking problems?
People living on these Clonskeagh roads have told us about frequent parking problems in:
- Leinster Lawn – Nutgrove Park
- Rosemount Crescent and
- Gledswood Park – Gledswood Avenue.
Some tradespeople, students, visitors and local shoppers park without thinking of others.
When this happens, it can:
- Create a bottleneck (a narrow point where traffic piles up)
- Slow down traffic
- Make it hard for bin lorries to pass
- May even block the road and
- Stop emergency vehicles getting through.
What is the Residents’ Association thinking?
Local residents raised the issue of parking at last November’s Annual General Meeting.
The Committee of the Clonskeagh Residents’ Association has discussed this problem and looked at solutions.
The Committee is in favour of extending the double yellow “No Parking” lines on one side of some roads.
Double yellow lines would:
- Stop or deter vehicles from parking that causes bottlenecks
- Help drivers park more carefully and think about others
- Make it easier for all vehicles to use the road, like emergency vehicles and bin lorries and
- Improve safety as drivers will have a clearer view ahead.
However, double yellow lines also:
- Reduce the parking space on the road and
- May make it harder for some residents to park directly outside their homes.
The Committee understands this is a difficult balance between safe roads and easy parking.
Other solutions like permit parking mean paying an annual parking fee.
What do you think?
Before we contact Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown County Council, we want to hear from residents living on the affected roads.
Residents will receive full details of the proposal for their road.
We are asking you for your views.
If you do not agree with the proposal for your road, please email your comments to:
The deadline for your comments on this proposal is 24 March next.
If a majority of residents on a road do not object, the Association will send that road’s proposal to the Council for approval and action.
The Council’s Traffic Advisory Group will consider any proposal.
It will be some months before any double yellow “No Parking” lines are placed on any road.
Take action
If you object to the proposal for your road, please email info@clonskeaghresidents.ie before 24 March next.