COMHAIRLE CONTAE ÁTHA CLIATH THEAS
SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF DEVELOPMENT PLAN MEETING

Tuesday, May 04, 2010

MOTION NO. 101

MOTION: Councillor G. O'Connell

At 2.214 add an additional paragraph “

Walking and Cycling will be promoted by securing the development of a network of safe cycle routes and footpaths on new and existing roads and on routes reserved exclusively for pedestrians and cyclists and by the development of foot and cycleways off-raod (e.g. through open spaces and along established rights of way”.

REPORT:

The objectives raised in this Motion have already been dealt with in Policy T12 and section 2.2.14.

Policy T12: ‘Pedestrian and Cyclist Movement’ states:

‘It is the policy of the Council to ensure sustainable forms of movement and the use of the street by pedestrians and cyclists and to promote permeable pedestrian and cyclist networks connecting to shops, community facilities, employment areas and desired places to go’. 

 

Section 2.2.14 also deals with these issues as follows:

‘Pedestrian and cyclist routes are encouraged to be located on-street to enliven and enhance the public realm.

Off-street routes can be provided to encourage walking and cycling in the form of short cuts to specific locations or recreational green routes (direct routes)…’

The Environmental Assessment Report on the motions found that with respect to the objectives raised in this motion and already contained in the Draft Plan, the status of specific Strategic Environmental Objectives is likely to improve.  These objectives are as follows:

• ‘To protect human health from hazards or nuisances arising from traffic and incompatible landuses’;
• ‘to minimise increases in travel related greenhouse emissions to air’; and
• ‘to reduce car dependency within the County by way of, inter alia, encouraging modal change from car to more sustainable forms of public transport and encouraging development which will not be dependent on private transport’.

 As the objectives proposed in the motion are already contained in the plan, the proposed additional paragraph is not required.

Recommendation:

 It is considered that the issues raised in the Motion are adequately covered in the Draft Plan.