Residents deserve vital facilities

IT is not surprising the decision to give the green light to build more than 10,000 homes in the Adamstown area of Lucan should spark controversy in this once picturesque hamlet on the Liffey and now Ireland’s fastest-growing town.

Given the failure of local authorities generally to control largescale developments of this kind, local people have every reason to be concerned. The plan has been compared to cramming a new town with a population of more than 25,000 people into an area little bigger than a golf course.

For South Dublin County Council to insist on the developer building a new railway station for commuters is commendable. But the question is whether Irish Rail will have the capacity to cope with the enormous population explosion now facing Lucan.