Councillors to raise waste plant issue

Councillors representing Kilcullen are to raise the issue of a proposed metal waste and vehicle recycling facility at their area meeting on Monday, writes Brian Byrne.

At a public meeting in Cnoc na Greine Woods this morning, both Mark Wall and Ivan Keatley said they ’had not been aware’ of the proposal until this week, and would be taking up the matter with the Council.

The proposed plant would be right at the back of houses in Cnoc na Greine Woods and would also impact on Avondale Estate and the GAA Club.

The councillors advised the residents at the meeting of their options to object to the application, which must be done by the end of next week.

There was some criticism of a comment from the local representatives that more consideration might be given to a large number of individual objections than to a joint ’petition’ submission. The councillors said they were relaying what had been said by an official in the Planning Department.

A number of those present said they couldn’t afford the €20 each individual objection would cost. Although the majority of the residents have decided they will send in individual objections, it was decided that a joint objection would be prepared for those who wanted to go that route.

The issue of ’complicity’ by the Council in the application was also raised, as the local authority owns the site on which the application is being made.

Cllrs Wall and Keatley said their job was to represent the local people who put them in the position on the authority, and they would be doing this. Cllr Wall said the Council would have to have been involved in pre-planning meetings of which they were not aware, and they would be following this up.



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