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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

Monday, March 08, 2010

MOTION NO. 9

MOTION: Councillor J. Lahart

That this Council sets in train meetings between M50 Concessions, the NRA, the Parks, Roads and Environmental Services Department of this Council to devise environmentally firiendly solutions to combat the imposition of a series of fifty to sixty foot high motorway gantry signs adjacent to residential estates in Knocklyon, the effects of which is to cause an even greater devaluation of properties, to totally reverse the aspect from the estates to the Dublin hills and to cause unecessary additional health and safety hazards within the estates in question.

REPORT:

All of the matters referred to in the motion were raisd at the time of the publication of the EIS and Oral Hearing for the M50 Upgrade Scheme .  An Bord Pleanala approved the scheme in in its entirety and that section of the scheme in the the Rathfarnham area is being constructed under a Public Private Partnership contract  between the National Roads Authority and the M50 Concessions Company.  The National Roads Authority has confirmed that all of the gantry signs being put in place as part of the scheme are necessary for the safe movement of traffic along the M50.

Following a request  from the recent Rathfarnham Area Committee to invite the NRA to attend the next meeting of the Committee to discuss the matters raised at committee, an invitation was extended to the NRA to attend either the March or the April committee meeting. A response is awaited. All  matters including thoes raise in the motion can be the subject of  debate of this meeting.