Hard questions about planning fiasco
The proposed new road to link with the N11 at Kilpedder, Co Wicklow, could be delayed for up to three years. This important road has to service a huge new development just south of Greystones.
The thousands of people moving in to those houses have no easy way to reach the N11 - which should be three short miles away. Instead, the new residents clog up the old roads around Greystones, Kilcoole and Delgany as they begin their commutes.
The whole issue also raises a number of important questions about how and why the council purchased land which contained an illegal dump.
1 Were county council engineers not involved in the 1998 court case? This was brought by the County Council itself to prevent illegal dumping along the site it now wants to place a road.
2 Why wasn’t the site surveyed prior to the compulsory purchase order? And why weren’t core samples taken, in the knowledge that waste existed?
3 The court accepted in 1998 that the waste was “inert”. But it transpired that some was contaminated. What is being done to reconcile these discrepancies?
4 Will the county manager or Wicklow’s brand new Environment Minister, Dick Roche, confirm that the waste (estimated at around 80,000 loads) will be removed at no cost to the taxpayer?
The residents and the Irish taxpayer deserve better. We should not be stuck with the astronomical clean-up bill.
Cllr John Brady
63 Kilbride Grove
Bray
David Gahan (Chair, Wicklow Sinn Féin)
12 Monteith Park
Kilcoole
Co Wicklow
