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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

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MEETING OF LUCAN AREA COMMITTEE

Tuesday, February 28, 2017

QUESTION NO. 24

QUESTION: Councillor G. O'Connell

"To ask the Chief Executive, now that developers and builders are becoming more active in our area, what powers the Council has to prevent building traffic from using residential areas as a shortcut, leaving mud, grit and pebbles on roads, ignoring weight restrictions creating a hazard for pedestrian and children etc as currently being experienced by residents in the Dodsboro and Hillcrest Areas?"

REPLY:

If a street or road has no weight limit then there are no restrictions on vehicles of any size using such streets.

The Council has the Power to place a weight restriction on vehicles above a specified weight going through such streets. The Council has no power to stop vehicles using a street if it has business within.

Under particular planning conditions (once they are included) a developer is obliged to remove muck, dust etc from roads / streets clear of debris arising from the development site.