COMHAIRLE CONTAE ÁTHA CLIATH THEAS
SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL
MEETING OF TALLAGHT AREA COMMITTEE
Monday, January 26, 2015
MOTION NO.4
MOTION: Councillor C. King
That this Committee calls on the Chief Executive Officer to report once again on progress on addressing the serious issue of anti social behaviour particularly illegal dumping on the green space at Kiltalown Path, Rd & Park as previously discussed here. This report to include the previously requested cost analysis of installing CCTV versus the ongoing clean-up costs. This Committee further calls on the Chief Executive Officer to arrange for the immediate clean-up and re-planting of this green space to enable the children of the area to utilise the small soccer pitch that was installed recently at my request and can the manager report on what success or otherwise has been had identifying the perpetrators of the illegal dumping".
REPORT:
The estimated cost of CCTV for this area is c.€10,000. The ongoing cleaning costs for 2014 were c.€15,000.
Public realm maintenance / cleaning of the area will be undertaken next week.
Once again it should be noted that in general the Council’ s continuation to cleanup sites is not acting as a deterrent to the problem.
Where it is not possible from interrogation of dumped matter to ascertain the source of the pollution, it will not be possible to bring conviction and therefore we continue to encourage residents to support the Council in efforts to identify the culprits where / if known and to provide the necessary information to us to assist in getting more cases of illegal dumping into court.
The goal posts promised are now in place. However the ground will not be playable until it is repaired (following the burning of domestic waste etc). The repairs will be done as soon as ground conditions permit, hopefully at the end of February or early March.
Under Section 10 of the Litter Pollution Act, 1997, each local authority is required to adopt a Litter Management Plan (LMP) and a review of delivery / non delivery of the objectives of the 2011 -2014 LMP is currently underway and a draft review report will be presented to the Environment SPC next week.
Notwithstanding the statutory obligation to review the current LMP, there are a number of reasons for review of the plan including:
- Need to assess the LMP with respect to the core functions prescribed for such Plans under the Litter Pollution Act, 1997, and to determine how we have discharged these functions;
- To ascertain whether or not the current Litter Management Plan acts as an appropriate framework for the anti-litter activities to be undertaken by the Council over the succeeding years;
- To identify best practice as regards litter management planning. This will ensure that our future plans benefit from the experience gained from the successes and / failures in delivery of the objectives of the previous LMP.
This review will inform the setting of new objectives for the 2015-2017 Litter Management Plan and on how we approach the issue of litter over the next three years. This approach may include but is not exhaustive:
- developing programmes to target various litter categories, blackspots and illegal means of disposing of waste/refuse;
- potential for wider use of CCTV - examination of feasibility and costs for greater use of CCTV at blackspots;
- improved litter disposal systems;
- improved use of green areas / open spaces;
- greater emphasis on sectoral responsibilities
We we are also suggesting options which may assist including encouraging the residents to provide detail on offender (if known) and also to consider working with the Community Department to establish a local Tidy Town’ s group.