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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

Monday, October 10, 2011

QUESTION NO.13

QUESTION: Councillor W. Lavelle

To ask the Manager for a detailed update on implementation of the Greater Dublin Noise Action Plan including noise-mapping; and to further advise on what mitigation measures are proposed to boundaries of residential areas adjoining main roads where the residential areas in question are determined to suffer from excessively-high volumes of traffic noise?

REPLY:

The second round of the regulations provides for noise mapping bodies to make strategic noise maps before the 30th June 2012 for the following:

- Major roads (defined in the regulations as roads with > 3 million vehicles per annum).

- Major railways (defined as > 30,000 trains per annum).

- Agglomerations with > 100,000 inhabitants.

- Major airports with >50,000 movements per annum. (Although this is omitted from the Regulations, the END requires action plans for these airports in 2013 thus requiring noise mapping in 2012).

Revised/amended action plans must be prepared on foot of the extended strategic noise maps, by 18th July 2013.

Updated Guidance has recently been issued by the EPA as this second phase commences.

Mitigation measures are planned and implemented within the context of particular circumstances at locations and the availability of resources.