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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF LUCAN AREA COMMITTEE

Tuesday, January 25, 2011

QUESTION NO. 7

QUESTION: Councillor W. Lavelle

To ask the Manager to report on the Council’s plans for the 42.56 acres of land at Cooldrinagh acquired by the Council as part of the land-swap agreement approved by Councillors in November 2006?

REPLY:

The lands in question are zoned 'Objective I  - To protect and enhance the outstanding character and amenity of the Liffey Valley and to preserve its strategic importance  as a green break between urban settlement areas' in the South Dublin County Development Plan 2010 - 2016.  

The lands are also the subject of Specific Local Objective 3 in the Development Plan i.e. Liffey Valley - Extension of SAAO - 'Investigate the feasibility of extending the Special Amenity Area Order to include all of the lands at Lucan Demesne, the Embassy - owned lands, the area behind Lucan BNS, St. Edmondsbury, Fonthill, Woodville, The Kings Hospital and Waterstown Park, extending from the River Liffey up to the N4 and bordered by the Leixlip-Lucan Slip Road by Lucan Village Road, The Lucan Hill Road, The Lucan Road from the Church Car Park to Woodies, the N4 onwards towards the Old Lucan Road and onwards as far a Waterstown Park'.

A portion of these lands adjacent to the River Liffey form part of a Proposed Natural  Heritage Area.