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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

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MEETING OF LUCAN AREA COMMITTEE

Tuesday, February 22, 2011

QUESTION NO. 6

QUESTION: Councillor G. O'Connell

To ask the Manager to provide a report on the work to date in cleaning up Palmerston Village, Manor Road, Kennelsfort Road and the network of laneways in the area, as per my motion at the January meeting; To ask if the hand-cart cleansing service in the area has been curtailed i.e. cut back and to thank the Manager for the additional and excellent road sweeping recently carried out in Palmerston Estates?

REPLY:

As Members are aware, the Council's Cleansing Staff maintain villages, including Palmerston, while the Council's road-sweeping contractor sweeps roads and estates with main roads swept a minimum of twelve times a year and estates four times a year with Kennelsfort Road swept monthly (next scheduled sweep is during week commencing the 7th March, 2011) and Manor  Road last swept in January, 2011 and next scheduled for the week commencing 25th April 2011.  The Council’s Green Machine Operative works in Palmerston Village Monday to Friday on a continuous basis and his duties also include litter picking at the Silver Granite pub and the Manor Road Shopping Centre.

As previously reported the cleansing section is operating on reduced staff numbers due to unfilled staff vacancies and transfers on a daily basis to the refuse collection section.  Nevertheless, the section has now responded to a large number of clean-up tasks referred to it by the litter wardens and the public.  The Council hired two large road sweepers to assist with the clean up effort and this equipment also dealt with the issue of grit on main roads and where it was spread on footpaths in the town and village centres.

The following clean up tasks have been carried out by the Cleansing Section in the Palmerston area since the start of January this year:

Date Location 1 Location 2 Task
04/01/2011 Palmerstown S/C Palmerstown bottlebanks
05/01/2011 Laneway R/O Oakcourt Ave Palmerstown bags
06/01/2011 Laneway R/O Oakcourt Ave Palmerstown bags
06/01/2011 Palmerston Village Palmerstown bags
10/01/2011 Palmerston Village Palmerstown h/cart bags & delivery of bags
10/01/2011 Palmerstown S/C Palmerstown bottlebanks
11/01/2011 Palmerstown Ave @ No 93 Palmerstown bags & items from clean up
14/01/2011 Palmers Park Palmerstown bags
14/01/2011 Elderwood Rd @ No 27 Palmerstown bags
14/01/2011 Palmerston Palmerstown h/cart bags
14/01/2011 Palmerstown S/C Palmerstown bottlebanks
17/01/2011 Palmerstown S/C Palmerstown bottlebanks
20/01/2011 Kennelsfort Rd & No 82 On Road Palmerstown bin bags & litter
21/01/2011 Silver Granite Palmerstown litter pick
21/01/2011 Laneway Rear Of Wheatfield Rd Palmerstown flytipping @ 5 locations
21/01/2011 Palmerstown S/C Palmerstown bottlebanks
21/01/2011 Palmerston Village Palmerstown bags
24/01/2011 Palmerstown S/C Palmerstown bottlebanks
24/01/2011 Rear Of No 93 Palmerstown Ave Palmerstown skip bag & carpet & cardboard box
25/01/2011 Palmerstown S/C Palmerstown bottlebanks
26/01/2011 Palmerstown Village Palmerstown bags
27/01/2011 Palmerstown Woods @ Ent Palmerstown tyres x 12 & bin bags
24/01/2011 Rear Of 12 - 62 Palmerstown Ave Palmerstown carpet, window, basket, bag & door
24/01/2011 Near School @ The Oval3 Palmerstown armchair
28/01/2011 Palmerstown S/C Palmerstown bottlebanks
28/01/2011 Palmerston Village Palmerstown grit clean up - Cancelled due to funeral
31/01/2011 Palmerstown S/C Palmerstown bottlebanks
31/01/2011 Palmerston Village Palmerstown h/cart bags
02/02/2011 Mill Lane Palmerstown mattresses & wood
03/02/2011 Palmerston Village Palmerstown bags
07/02/2011 Palmerstown S/C Palmerstown bottlebanks
14/02/2011 Palmerston Village Palmerstown h/cart bags
16/02/2011 Palmerstown Close @ No 3 Palmerstown bags from clean up
16/02/2011 Palmerstown Ave @ No 93 Palmerstown bags from clean up
16/02/2011 Palmerston Village Palmerstown h/cart bags
17/02/2011 Laneways Palmerstown Clean up