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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

 

MEETING OF ENVIRONMENT, PUBLIC REALM AND CLIMATE CHANGE SPC

Tuesday, February 05, 2019

Commencement of Review of Litter Management Plan 2015-2019

REPÒRT:

Making Policy - Statutory Basis

 Section 10 (2) of the Litter Pollution Act 1997, as amended, provides a statutory requirement on each local authority to review its Litter Management Plan at least once in each period of three (3) years. 

In accordance with Section 12 of the Litter Pollution Act 1997, as amended, there is a prescribed procedure for making, amending or replacing the Litter Management Plan, including a statutory public consultation process. 

The making, review, amending or replacement of a litter management plan is a reserved function of the council in accordance with S 13 of the Litter Pollution Act 1997, as amended

 Review

The Council’s (current) Litter Management Plan 2015-2019 was made in October 2015, following a full review of the previous Litter Management Plan 2011-2014.     

At that time all objectives contained in the 2011-2014 plan were critically examined and this informed the development of the Litter Management Plan 2015-2019 including the appended protocols.

The current Litter Management Plan is reviewed and a report provided to the ACM’s on a quarterly basis.   Nonetheless, it is now proposed to undertake a full and comprehensive review of Litter Management Plan 2015-2019, with a view to developing a new Litter Management Plan to coincide with the lifetime of the next Council period spanning 2019-2024. 

It is intended that a review report, and a pre-consultation Draft Litter Management Plan 2019-2024 will be presented to the May 2019 SPC meeting in advance of the commencement of a statutory public consultation process, which will be undertaken in accordance with Section 12 of the Litter Pollution Act 1997,as amended.

Public Consultation

The draft 2019-2024 Litter Management Plan will go on public display for a period of 8 weeks during which time submissions and observations will be invited and considered. 

It is anticipated that a report on the public consultation process will come to the November 2019 SPC meeting and ideally following recommendation of the SPC, the draft plan will go before the Council for approval in December 2019.