23 June 2003: Residents of Arconagh in Naas may take Naas Town Council and Kildare County Council to the High Court because their estate has not been taken in charge.
The Arconagh Residents Association will formally bring the matter before their residents at the AGM this evening in the Town House Hotel.
A petition was circulated in the early part of this year, to establish that a threshold of 50 per cent plus one of the 'qualified electors' in the estate wish to have it taken in charge.
The association officially petitioned Naas Town Council in April to take their estate in charge, after years of lobbying without success.
The Arconagh Residents Association have said they will also enjoin Kildare County Council in any such action, in so far as that authority may have responsibility.
The residents have repeatedly complained about aspects of the development, which was completed in 1994, in particular the regular release of sewage into the groundwater system when a pumping system fails.
In their official petition letter to the Mayor of Naas Town Council, the residents said that protracted correspondence and interaction with the council, extending over a period of many years, in an attempt to deal with this matter, has been 'singularly unsuccessful' and the same issues about which residents were concerned almost a decade ago, remain unresolved.
