Dublin City Council management is to make no change to its proposals to build an incinerator and expand the sewage plant at Poolbeg in Ringsend despite strong opposition in public submissions to its 10 to 15-year plan for the area.
Councillors representing the south east of the city will be told on Monday that there will be no changes to plans for the waste infrastructure projects despite numerous objections to its Poolbeg Framework Plan, which went on public display last January.
The city manager's report notes that the incinerator, due to be the subject of planning permission before the end of the year, was rejected by a vote of the councillors.
It states that submissions were received from the public and councillors expressing concern about the impact on air quality, health, traffic and the disposal of toxic waste.
Submissions also called for the incinerator to be sited in a greenfield area to the west of the city.
The report, likely to be presented by assistant city manager Sean Carey, states that the Poolbeg peninsula has been identified in studies as the "preferred site" for an incinerator and the council's compulsory purchase order of the land was approved by An Bord Pleanála and this occurred before the framework plan was developed.
"Although it is the policy of the elected members to oppose the siting of an incinerator on the Poolbeg peninsula, it is the policy of Dublin City Council . . . to implement the waste management plan for the Dublin region," the report states.
Submissions on the sewage plant noted that it had reached capacity, referred to the on-going odour problem and said houses should not be located close to the plant.
The report states it is the intention of the council to proceed with the expansion of the plant and that the ABA consortium, responsible for the construction and operation of the plant, is addressing the odour problem.
