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Meath County Council have now officially admitted that they have failed to meet the 18 July deadline to produce a noise action plan for Julianstown. This is despite issuing a statement to the press that they were not in breach of any regulations and would be meeting their commitments on time.
Although the council has statutory responsibility for production of the plan, the local authority is blaming the EPA for not delivering vital information to them in time. The latest news is that it will be expediting its way from Dublin up to Navan by Wednesday 29 July.
The council is truly lacking in credibility here. Dublin has already put its plan on display and opened a public consultation. Their noise maps have also been on the web for quite some time.
See here.
Concern has to be expressed at the attention this is being given within Meath County Council given the serious public health issues that the noise study raises.
See out noise page for more info.
July 26th, 2008
A couple of press reports.
http://www.julianstown.com/files/Archive/2000/2008/080723_press.pdf
The NRA press release from June 2003 that said that the M1 would take 15000 vehicles per day out of Julianstown and would bypass the village. The reality turned out to be quite different.
http://www.julianstown.com/files/Archive/2000/2003/030609_NRA_PressRelease.pdf
July 26th, 2008
Nice article in Drogheda Indo.
Couple sue Luas over Noise.
July 16th, 2008
“TIDY TOWNS”
PUTTING DOWN ROOTS IN JULIANSTOWN?
FAMILY TREE PLANTING DAY
Saturday April 5th
JULIANSTOWN COMMUNITY GARDEN
(opposite Laytown Road)
Come along
Bring a spade
Maybe you would like to bring a tree of your own choice to plant
Meet at Julianstown Inn car park 2.30 pm
Other planting/ landscaping dates for your diary
Sat 12th, 19th, 26th April
Details on www.julianstown.com
March 30th, 2008
Noise Map carried out by Meath County Council
Drogheda Independent article on the Noise Map
Irish Independent Article on Noise in Dublin City.
Some Noise from Councillors on the Road Works
Drogheda Indo version
Meath Chronicle version
February 16th, 2008
Submissions to Meath County Council concerning traffic impact of Development of 5000 houses on the South side of Drogheda and also submission regarding phasing of release of zoned land in East Meath
December 11 2007 Meath CC Submission
November 27 2007 Meath CC Submission
Miscellaneous
Newsletter Autumn 2007
November 03, 2007 Old Mill
Press Release December 5, 2007
See http://www.julianstown.com/residentsAssoc.htm for more information.
December 15th, 2007
Just watch excellent Prime Time Investigates about crazy zoning up and down the country.
http://www.rte.ie/news/primetimeinvestigates/
The experience of the small village of Puckane very closely resembels Julianstown.
http://puckane.net/index.html
Julianstown is under severe pressure from the past and potential rezoning decisions of our councillors. Right now negotiations are in progress to zone enough land on the south of Drogheda for at least 5000 houses as part of the Drogheda Environs plan. At the same time negotiations are stepping up behind closed doors to rezone more land in Julianstown to double the size of the village
November 26th, 2007
The NRA has now got data for traffic volumes on the new M1 at the toll plaza on its website.
The data show that there are between 27,000-30,000 vehicles per day using the toll. This shows more evidence that the 22,000 vehicles in Julianstown are probably not toll avoiding but are in fact travelling the shortest route to South Drogheda, East Meath.
The relative scale of the figures is also interesting. Only a small difference between the new €200M motorway and the level of traffic in Julianstown.
October 24th, 2007
There was more discussion of the Julianstown school crossing in the papers today. Councillor’s expressed the real fear that there will be a serious or even fatal accident at some time in the future.
The fact is that 22,000 vehicles per day are still passing through julianstown with approximately 1600/hr at the 9.00 school drop off time.
The Council is trying to cover itself and says it is not responsible, but how can that be true? They know there is a serious traffic and safety problem in Julianstown and will not take steps to address the major problems in either the near or long term.
October 24th, 2007
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