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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF LUCAN AREA COMMITTEE

Wednesday, December 16, 2015

QUESTION NO. 9

QUESTION: Councillor W. Lavelle

"To ask the Chief Executive to install warning signage and covert CCTV at Tandy's Lane in Lucan to seek to deter serious illegal dumping and to help identify culprits?"

REPLY:

 The Council's Enforcement and Licensing Section received five complaints (2 membersnets and 3 'Fix Your Street') regarding dumping at Tandy's Lane in 2015.

Staff working on Tandy's Lane are exposed to an increased occupational risk due to the narrow nature of the roadway, the number of blind bends and the volumes of traffic which use the roadway.  For these reasons, only limited sections of the road can be maintained and material can be safety removed while maintaining through flows of traffic.

To undertake a comprehensive cleanup of the road margins in a manner that minimises the exposure of staff to unnecessary risk, it is necessary to close the road to through traffic for a limited period of time to enable the cleanup to take place safely.

The Council's Public Realm Section removed 7.64 tonnes of material when they cleaned the lane in April 2015 (the last clean up was in June 2014).  This was done following the acquisition of a Temporary Road Closure Permit.

The Council's CCTV Contractor previously assessed Tandy's Lane for the erection of CCTV, however, it was deemed unsuitable due to the narrow nature of the roadway and number of blind corners.