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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF CLONDALKIN, NEWCASTLE, RATHCOOLE, SAGGART AND BRITTAS AREA COMMITTEE

Wednesday, September 20, 2023

QUESTION NO.9

QUESTION: Councillor E. Ó Broin

To ask the Chief Executive what the impediment to banning trucks from Newcastle Village is?

REPLY:

The Newcastle road is a Regional distributor Road with the Road Number R120.  Newcastle Village is a growing village, with planned development for much needed housing and associated commercial support infrastructure.

This necessitates, for the time being, planned truck movements to complete the housing projects which have been agreed under the Newcastle LAP.

Newcastle has existing commercial activity which supports local employment and provides local shopping amenities for the people of Newcastle.

These temporary and ongoing long term activities necessitate a certain level of HGV traffic.

Obviously, if there are through HGV movements that could travel by alternative routes, then these movements need to be stopped from using Newcastle Village as a  convenience route when other more suitable roads are available.

Therefore, an outright ban on HGV movements through Newcastle Village would have extremely harmful consequences to the healthy planned level of growth for the Village and affect the long term economic sustainability of the village.

There are competing needs that require balanced and difficult compromises in relation to HGV traffic.