Dublin Regional Draft Air Quality Management Plan 2008-2012.
Dublin City Council, Dún Laoghaire – Rathdown County Council, South Dublin County Council, and Fingal County Council have jointly made a ‘Dublin Regional Draft Air Quality Management Plan 2008-2012 which will replace the ‘Dublin Regional Air Quality Management Plan 1999’.
It was considered by the relevant Strategic Policy Committees of the four Local Authorities and was also considered at the relevant monthly Council Meetings of the four Local Authorities and it was agreed that the Statutory Public Consultation Process be initiated on a Regional basis. Following this Consultation Process, the Draft Plan will again be considered by the relevant Strategic Policy Committees and the relevant Councils of the four Local Authorities. The adoption of the Air Quality Management Plan 2008-2012 is a Reserved Function.
The main strategies of the plan are to: -
- Improve coordination of efforts and build on the good work done to date.
- Mainstream air quality management into all major policy areas.
- Strengthen evidence based decision making by improving how we share information on air quality.
- Lead by example with measures related to local authority activities that will reduce emissions.
- Identify and prioritise tackling main potential threats to air quality.
- Provide clear time-bound criteria for the achievement of objectives.
- The Air Quality Management Plan will be for a 4-year period.
A copy of the Draft Plan can be viewed on each of the 4 Local Authority’s website addresses below and is also available free of charge and for inspection and at the following addresses: -
- Dublin City Council, Civic Offices, Wood Quay, Dublin 8, www.dublincity.ie
- Fingal County Council, County Hall Swords, Fingal, Co. Dublin or Fingal County Council, Blanchardstown Centre, Grove Rd. Blanchardstown, Dublin 15 http://www.fingalcoco.ie/EnvironmentandWater/AirandNoise/Air/
- Dun Laoghaire- Rathdown Environment and Culture Department, County Hall, Marine Road, Dun Laoghaire or the Dun Laoghaire- Rathdown Council Offices, Dundrum Office Park, Dundrum www.dlrcoco.ie
- Customer Care Counter, South Dublin County Council, County Hall, Tallaght, Dublin 24. www.southdublin.ie
Your feedback is very important to us
Written representations in relation to the Draft Air Quality Management Plan 2008-2012 may be made to the address of your Local Authority listed below before 5pm on the 24th of April 2009.
Principal Environmental Health Officer, Air Quality Monitoring and Noise Control Unit, Dublin City Council, Wood Quay, Dublin 8 or email to airquality@dublincity.ie
Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council Offices at the Environment and Culture Dept. County Hall, Marine Road, Dun Laoghaire and the Council Offices, Dundrum Office Park, Dundrum or email to environ@dlrcoco.ie
Senior Executive Officer, Environmental Services Department, South Dublin County Council, County Hall, Tallaght., or email to customercare@sdublincoco.ie
Principal Environmental Health Officer, Fingal County Council, Blanchardstown Centre, Grove Rd. Blanchardstown, Dublin or email to airquality@fingalcoco.ie
Submissions may be made publicly available if requested under the Freedom of Information Act 1997, as amended.