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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF DEVELOPMENT PLAN MEETING

Tuesday, May 04, 2010

MOTION NO.

MOTION: Councillor C. King, Councillor J. Hannon, Councillor S. Crowe

Motion also proposed by Cllrs. J. Hannon & S. Crowe.

Amend the following criteria for applicants wishing to build their homes in areas designated with Zoning Objective H(“to protect and enhance the outstanding natural character of the Dublin Mountain Area”)  

• the applicant is a native of the area and,

• the applicant can demonstrate a genuine need for housing in that particular area and,

• the development is related directly to the area’s amenity potential or to its use for agriculture, mountain or hill farming and,

• the development would not prejudice the environmental capacity of the area, and that it would be in keeping with the character of the mountain area.  

To the following:

The applicant is a permanent native resident of the area i.e. a person who was either born and reared in the familyhome in the same rural area as the proposed development site,

or

has resided in the area for at least 15 years prior to the application for planning permission;

or  

Persons who are full-time farmers or employed full-time in other rural based activity such as horticulture, forestry, bloodstock or other rural based activity in the area in which they wish to build or whose employment is intrinsically linked to the rural area in which they wish to build.  

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