COMHAIRLE CONTAE ÁTHA CLIATH THEAS
SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF DEVELOPMENT PLAN MEETING

Monday, April 20, 2009

MOTION NO. 1

MOTION: Councillor E. Tuffy

Chapter 1 - Strategy

The Council directs the Manager to include in the Overall Strategy/Recommended Policy Approach, in the section beginning with "Seek to provide for the future well being of the residents of the County by" the addendum "Ensuring an adequate supply of zoned lands for agriculture and food production, including land for allotments, to provide for any new and/or additional demand for locally produced food, which may arise in the medium to longer term future as a consequence of predicted climate changes resulting in significantly changed world and Irish patterns of food production and associated changes in the availability of imported foodstuffs to Ireland and the Greater Dublin Region."

REPORT:

The Draft Development Plan will include policies in relation to the promotion of allotments. The Development Plan also zones significant portions of the County objective B with a stated zoning objective ' To protect and improve rural amenity and to provide for the development of agriculture.' With respect to the issue of food security and locally produced foods these relate more to national agricultural policy. It is considered that the linkage of future zoning to the protection of locally food growing areas is not appropriate.

Recommend

That this motion not be adopted.