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Pay & Display approved for Portersgate

Following years of complaints and agitation over the nuisance caused by the car parking of rail commuters in Portersgate estate, Fingal County Council has finally adopted a parking management scheme for the estate.

Last June the Council, following protracted negotiations with the Portersgate Residents’ Association, drew up the scheme and initiated a public consultation procedure with interested and affected parties.

The proposed scheme will see the introduction of pay and display parking including residents and visitors permit parking throughout the entire estate. The scheme also includes the provision of a number of speed ramps in the estate, the painting of single and double yellow lines at various locations and the provision parking meters at various locations for the payment of parking fees.

Visitors permits will be valid for one day only. Permits must be purchased and up to 200 permits may be purchased by a household in any one year. This is based on an allowance of a maximum of 4 persons in any one household purchasing 50 permits each.

Thirteen submissions were received by the council – 9 from individual local residents, one from the residents’ association, and one each from the gardaí, a resident of the adjoining Aldemere estate and the Council’s own planning department.

Most of the submissions received from residents related to the location of particular yellow lines and the placing of parking meters. These were examined by the Council’s engineers and in a number of cases adjustments were made to the plans.

The Aldemere submission indicated that the problem of commuter parking is one that has spread beyond Portersgate and sought an extension of the parking scheme to include Aldemere. No doubt other estates in Dublin 15 afflicted by wholesale commuter parking will also be looking to introduce the Portersgate example into their areas in the coming months and years.

The submission from the garda traffic division in Dublin castle expressed concern over the impact the scheme would have on traffic volumes in the wider area and suggested that it would negate efforts to encourage commuters to leave their cars at home and use public transport. However this was rejected by Council engineers who stressed that “the scheme is required to regulate the commuter parking presently occurring within Portersgate estate.”

In the event the scheme with some minor modifications was adopted by the Council and steps to implement Dublin 15’s first official pay and display parking system will now begin.

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