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DUBLIN LOCAL AUTHORITIES have cancelled plans for a giant landfill near Lusk in north Dublin.
The proposed ‘superdump’ had been in the work for 14 years, but had met with significant opposition from the local community.
Fingal County Council this afternoon said that the plan had been scrapped due to the large costs which would be involved and the “changed circumstances which have rendered the project no longer viable”.
An estimated €35 million has already been spent on the now-defunct project at Nevitt in north county Dublin.
The council says that it retain ownership of the lands that were purchased for the development in 2007, close to the height of the property boom. It will not now proceed with the compulsory purchase of further land in the area.
“We developed this project in good faith for the past 14 years as we had a clear responsibility under the Dublin Waste Management Plan to provide the people of Dublin with the infrastructure they needed and to follow government policy,” said David O’Connor, the Fingal County Manager.
O’Connor said that the decision to proceed would involve costs of up to €45 million, which “in today’s market and in light of evolving national policy could not now be justified”.
The move comes just one month after the Fingal Landfill Project had overcome a final legal challenge to the project following the granting of the necessary planning consent and waste licence.
Fingal County Council had officially applied for planning permission for the landfill in 2006.
The giant million facility had been due to process up to 300,000 tonnes of waste per year – an estimated one-sixth of all the waste dumped in the State every year.
The site selection study for the plant began in 1998 and was delayed significantly by a legal challenge which was not resolved until 2003.
“Deciding not to proceed at this stage has not been a simple decision to make but it is the correct one,” said O’Connor.
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Holy moly, 14 years of planning and then scrapped. Already poored a superdump amount of cash into i reckon.
Great news. Now let’s kick the projected giant sewage plant into touch – http://www.luskwastewatchers.com/
Sadly nobody is laughing as the Issue is just moved to somebody else. The fact that it’s not viewed as an opportunity but rather a problem is itself the only problem….
Sigh…….
ok now the giant sewerage plant to stop and we,re laughing
Ye are refusing a sewage treatment plant? Why so? What will ye do with your raw sewage?
What we always did – sewage from Fingal is treated in Fingal. We just don’t want the sewage from the rest of North Leinster thanks very much.
Tough shit it has to go somewhere
But its treated, its not like you have direct contact with it. I lived beside on and you wouldn even know it was there?? Im lost.
Ireland currently has over capacity in terms of landfill (as evidenced by the massive drop in gate fees: it used to be over €200/ton now it’s as low as €60). It makes no sense to build a new one.
Isn’t the northside already a superdump? Haha had to say it :-)
Laughing at your own joke indicates, in northsider terms, that you would be positioned at the southern extremity of a large bell.
time to build an incinerator, the cleanest and most efficient current form of waste disposal treatment
or else keep shipping it to holland to incinerate for us as we’re presently doing, either way..
Where are ye gonna put all the blue hats, flags and headbands when order is restored and your out of the championship in the quarters.
Obviously some public service heads need to roll for this ‘waste’ of €30m
but you dont see the dutch on here giving out about takin other peoples waste! incineration is the best option for noncompostable/recyclable materials. no one wud ever even know it was there once they got used to the new chimney on the skyline! i mean ppl want the poolbeg chimneys made a protected structure fgs! i’m thinking mostly of ringsend/poolbeg when i say this btw!
Congratulations to all involved in the campaign to stop this SUPER DUMP great work there folks but a disgrace that 35 million euro has been wasted shame on the council
Hope they kept the receipt for the land purchase….to get the refund on the €30,000,000 spent on it to date?
Sorry Bernadette, I stand corrected…€35,000,000
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