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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF LUCAN / PALMERSTOWN / NORTH CLONDALKIN AREA COMMITTEE

Tuesday, October 24, 2023

MOTION NO.35

MOTION: Councillor V. Casserly

That this area committee calls on the manager to revise and review traffic management plan in Somerton Park on the various entry/exit points to the estate alongside enhanced road safety and traffic calming measures.

REPORT:

The Somerton Park is not the Charge of the Council at this point, but the estate will be Taken in Charge in due course.  It is estimated that the estate TIC process will be completed next year.

The Somerton Estate and the surrounding road network that it is located is designed to most modern design standards in terms of layout, accessibility and safety.  

The latest guidance from the Design Manual for Urban Roads and Streets (DMURS) has been implemented in this estate.

Features such as appropriate road widths, tighter junction radii, ramps, junction tables, tactile crossing points and slow zone signage with an incorporated children at play sign have all been designed into the layout. 

The construction of the estate has been in accordance with the granted planning permission.  Therefore, there is nothing omitted or wrongly built that SDCC could enforce through the planning legislation.

SDCC have no other powers at this stage to make any changes to the layout of traffic management arrangements unless and until we Take the Estate in Charge.

The claim is that rat running is occurring on the Somerton Avenue and Somerton Green roads. This has been noted by the SDCC Traffic section at peak times. Speed surveys indicate that speed is not an issue for the reasons outlined about the design. 

After the estate is Taken in Charge, if factual and verifiable information comes to light on traffic issues of this nature, then the SDCC traffic section will take appropriate measures to solve them.