Race to Re....zone

dublin | environment | news report Thursday March 25, 2004 12:33 by pc

st annes is next

the dublin county manager wants to build an industrial recycling facility in st annes park

it was just on pat kenny but id sorta been follwoing the story already mostly thanks to the good old northside people...

(the likely-hood this will go ahead is slim but even to suggest is idiocy, so ill tell the story)

The dublin county manager wants to put a significant waste recycling facility in st annes park.One which will deal with white goods and hazardous waste among all the other things, sounds good but it just not the right place

You will have to go st annes park to remind your how impressive an area it is...

a large factory set-up will have to be built in st annes, with all the associated heavy traffic and noise etc and simpler that its an conservation area, and suddenly they want to change it to industrial...

they need to put it somewhere else, but what was pointed out was that they didn't _own_ somewhere else, so this was the motivation to use st annes

you may heard that theres already been problems with the recylcing facility there, originalyl planned as a small scale bring centre, it began to get very busy and be used as a commericial compost recycling centre

again sounds good at first, but there are spores of fungus which develop from composting that seriously affect people's health, the residents had to battle to highlight that no such facility should be in 250 metres of houses or amenity areas... it was about 60 metres, it went on operating without an appropriate licence but is now been scale back...

so if you problems with that one, why build a bigger one,

there seems to be number of similar issues coming up like airflied etc, is any there national group connect up these issues,( hows that anti-bin tax/ environmentalist co-operation going ??) i heard there was some interest talks with the anti-incinerator people at the cork gg anyone want to fill us in a bit more on that

again this is not a case of nimby... it just makes no sense to put it there,

i remember before there was talk of rezoning st annes for housing as it was an under used amentiy.... now theres some sorta truth to that, but a chunk of woods that ain't really visited by people ain't really under used space in my book... course that didn't save santry woods though...