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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

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MEETING OF SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

Tuesday, May 07, 2019

QUESTION NO. 17

QUESTION: Councillor F. Timmons

To ask the Chief Executive for a report into the provision of bottle banks in our county and given the issues around them how SDCC can provide much needed recycling in our county?

REPLY:

South Dublin County Council currently has 74 Bring Bank sites located around the County and 44 of these have facilities for the acceptance of glass bottles for recycling.  The Council's Community Recycling Strategy was reviewed by the Environment, Water and Climate Change SPC in 2016 and updated in 2017.  The new strategy set a target to increase these facilites to 120 locations across the County over the 5 year life span of the strategy however to date no additional sites have been established.  Approximately 20 potential sites have been examined however to date none have been progressed.  In general the main reasons for sites not being developed is that where the site identified is privately owned the site owners have refused permission for a bring bank site.  Where the sites are in public ownership they have been objected to by local residents through the public consultation process.  The following sets out the details of potential sites identified in the past 2 years and the current status of each.  At present there is only one of the sites listed below which is still under consideration. 

In North Clondalkin the following areas have been investigated:

  1. Neilstown Shopping Centre,
  2. Rowlagh Shopping Centre,
  3. Woodford Shopping Centre,
  4. Lidl Car park , Nangor Road.
  5. Parking spaces along Liscarne Road along the boundary of the Church of the Immaculate Heart of Mary
  6. A lay-by along Neilstown Road, adjacent Harelawn Green Estate
  7. Open Space along St Mark's Avenue and Rowlagh Park
  8. Neilstown Road Bring Bank located 50m from Cappaghmore house at the Junction of Neilstown Road and Lucan Newlands road
  9. Knockmitten Youth Community centre

All of the owners and the residents living within 50m of the above sites except for the proposed bottle bank along Neilstown Road have objected to the provision of bring banks in these areas . The Neilstown Bottle bank is still under investigation.

The following sites have also been investigated in other areas of Clondalkin:

  1. Cherrywood Shopping Centre
  2. Cherrywood Villas
  3. Tus Nua
  4. Bawnogue Church

The owners and residents of these areas except for Bawnogue Church Carpark have objected to the provision of bring banks in these areas .

In Tallaght , the following sites have been investigated:

  1. Citywest shopping centre
  2. Fortunestown shopping centre

The owners of these sites have rejected our request to locate bottle banks at their shopping centres.

In Newcastle area, the following sites have been investigated:

  1. Newcastle Shopping centre, Main Street
  2. Open space beside Roma Take Away, Main street
  3. Open space at the Junction of Athgoe RD and Hazlehatch Rd Newcastle

The owners of these sites have rejected our request to locate bottle banks in these areas.

In Lucan area, Tesco Shopping centre has failed to reply to our request despite repeated visits to meet the management of the shopping centre.