A NUMBER of people living near a dump in south Dublin have been ordered by the High Court to stop restricting entry to it. The dump has been reopened because of a delay in plans to open a new refuse site near Kill, Co Kildare.
South Dublin County Councils was granted a temporary injunction, effective until August 14th, restraining the defendants and anyone with notice of the order from obstructing the local authority's attempts to gain entry to the landfill site at Friarstown Bohernabreena.
Mr Adrian O'Gorman, law agent for the council, said in an affidavit that the Friarstown site was closed to domestic waste collected by the council in 1993 but remained in use for domestic waste deposited by members of the public. A site at Dunsink which had been the main reception area for domestic refuse from the area which was now South Co Dublin, closed on June 30th last.
The Co Dublin councils purchased a site at Arthurstown, Kill, and obtained planning permission in July, 1994, for the development of a disposal site for baled waste there. That site had been the subject of court proceedings, Mr O'Gorman said.
The appeal and judicial review process had delayed the date for the opening of the Arthurstown site, and it was anticipated the detailed design and development necessary for the reception of waste at Arthurstown would take seven to nine months. Meanwhile, the council urgently required to be able to deposit domestic waste at Friarstown.
Last Monday morning, said Mr O'Gorman, he was advised local residents had begun to obstruct the roadway on a hill leading to the entrance to the Friarstown site. He ascertained a group of local residents had walked slowly in front of the first refuse truck to arrive. Later, other trucks were stopped on the hill.