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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

Monday, April 11, 2011

QUESTION NO. 8

QUESTION: Councillor W. Lavelle

To ask the Manager, further to recent renewed national media coverage, to report on any pre-planning consultations or other meetings that have taken place between officials of this council and the backers of a proposal to locate a Children’s Hospital on lands in this county; and with respect to the lands in question to ask the Manager to outline the current zoning and any other development plans objectives applying to these lands and to advise if a proposal to locate a Children’s Hospital on these lands would likely require the agreement of the elected members to make a variation or material contravention to the current Development Plan?

REPLY:

No formal pre-planning consultation has taken place in respect of proposals to locate a Children's Hospital in South Dublin County.  A proposal by a single landowner for a Children's Hospital on a site in SDCC was made in respect of the joint HSE/Dept. of Health and Children evaluation of potential locations for a National Children's Hospital in early 2006, and the same proposal was also later submitted to the Planning Authority in the context of the N7 Framework preparation process.  The site in question remains zoned GB - Green Belt in the current 2010 County Development Plan, with Hospital use 'open for consideration'.  Development Plan variation or material contravention procedures are therefore unlikely to be required should any further proposal of a similar nature be made.