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This Council calls on the CE to limit the number of Data Centres in the Tallaght Centre Local Area Plan in the Regen Zone, due to the lack of employment opportunities per floorspace in these Centres and to encourage industries that will offer higher numbers of jobs that will impact positively on future employment figures
Special Council Meeting to Consider the Draft Tallaght Town Centre Local Area Plan
That the LAP explains the term Legibility to the ordinary reader and explains exactly where the focal point for Tallaght is meant to be, is it County Hall and the area around The Square and the final Luas stop ? Is it the Tallaght village ?exactly where is it? For the LAP to make a strong statement about this and set out how it proposes to achieve the objectives of having one connected focal point in Tallaght
Special Council Meeting to Consider the Draft Tallaght Town Centre Local Area Plan
Given the high levels of existing traffic in the Cookstown Industrial Estate and Central Tallaght area that greater efforts are made in this LAP to outline what measures will be taken to address traffic management and increasing traffic congestion and what measures are there to promote and encourage the switch from the private car to public transport
Tallaght Town Center LAP
Encourage the facilitation of a medical center in the vicinity of Tallaght stadium
In line with proposed development
Special Council Meeting to Consider the Draft Tallaght town Centre Local Area Plan.
That SDCC in collaboration with The Square and the Luas run a design competition for the Transport hub to achieve an iconic, standout designed hub that sets a best in class design tone like the new transport hub in Derry has achieved. This could be transformational in design and quality terms for the whole area.
Special Council Meeting to Consider the Draft Tallaght town Centre Local Area Plan.
As a cited stakeholder of the future Transport Hub, the public wish to be included at pre-design stage. It is envisaged that the Transport Hub can be an iconic civic building, and therefore has the potential to be an iconic, standout structure vital in creating a clear sense of identity for the town centre - not simply the ground floor of a mixed use block.
This Council calls on the Manager to clarify how the heights and densities will operate in the Village area with specific regard to the ACA area and request that the scale takes into account the historic context and the two story landscape, in the Tallaght Town Centre Local Area Plan.
Please clarify of how this additional height and densities will operate in the village area with specific regard to the ACA area and desire to ensure scale that takes account of the historic context and 2 storey streetscape ?
Page 73 to 77 Clearly show an evidenced based need(Cenus 2011 and 2016) for family sized homes in the LAP to cater for the proportion of the population to enable the current population to stay in the LAP and to avoid a mass exodius of pre-school or young family households. The mechanism to enabling the LAP include a firm requirement on this is a Housing Needs Demand Analysis. Please prioritise the production of same for the LAP area in H1 2020. Retain the requirement re: 3 bed apts of 30%, subject to the HNDA completion, where if it does not support it, this section can be varied. The LAP should not be weakened in this regard in it's ability to direct the supply of family homes in Cookstown and Airton
Please clarify what national guidelines is the flexibility of 1.5 times the plot ratios within 500 walking distance of a capacity transport stop in the LAP area based upon ? Given the luas and bus routes / stops in the LAP - is this really the exception or the rule - please clarify what areas in the LAP do NOT qualify for this additional height and density ?
Special Meeting of County Council to consider the Draft Tallaght town Centre Local Area Plan.
To respond to the Census details outlined clearly on pages 72 - 77 of the LAP, there is a need for family homes for the young family population in the LAP area. We update Cookstown with an SLO like that done in Citywest Village to identify a site where high quality homes are developed by the luas for local family’s and key workers to support the long term sustainability of the population in the LAP.
Special Meeting of County Council to consider the Draft Tallaght town Centre Local Area Plan
We question the impact of responding to The Priory's request to rezone from institutional lands to village centre to assist the sale of some of their land. The Priory and its full parklands are integral to the heritage of Tallaght and the protection of the ACA and the small remaining village streetscape.
Special Meeting of County Council to consider the Draft Tallaght town Centre Local Area Plan
To add to the key objectives of the Town Centre Park:
To identify and deliver a urban farm and inclusion garden allotments in the park to replace those being built on.
Special Meeting of County Council to consider the Draft Tallaght town Centre Local Area Plan
To identify a site and progress design and funding of a county museum in the Tallaght LAP.
To ask the Chief Executive to indicate when it is anticipated that the village enhancement scheme in Lucan village will re commence.
To ask the Chief Executive to provide an update on the construction of the Grand Canal Greenway between the 12th Lock in Lucan and Hazel Hatch.
To ask the Chief Executive to detail the next steps in the roll out of the construction of the pavilion at Griffeen Valley Park, in particular can you advise the number of submissions received during the public consultation period and when it is anticipated that construction will commence on the pavilion.
Special Meeting of County Council to consider the Draft Tallaght town Centre Local Area Plan
The Community has been calling for the installing of a brown heritage sign (national NRA standard) at the M50 gateway on the N81 " Welcome to Tallaght" sign to proudly signpost the County town as a place of heritage. This will not conflict with further tourist signage and is a separate, very simple, BAU request and cost effective activity that is a basic tenet to create Pride of Place and a sense of place in the County Town and Town centre.
Special Meeting of County Council to consider the Draft Tallaght town Centre Local Area Plan
The insertion of employment findings needs to be supported by an objective to actively market and attract intense office / head quarter businesses to Cookstown, Broomhill and Greenhills as a response to the survey findings. The market should not be allowed to simply assume residential is the only response to ensure greater use of floor space in the LAP area.
Special Meeting of County Council to consider the Draft Tallaght town Centre Local Area Plan
To achieve intensive enterprise and employment land uses per square metre floor space in Cookstown, Broomhill, Whitestown and Greenhills no further data centres should be permitted.
There is a very large existing footprint of these in Greenhills and Airton already.