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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

Monday, June 13, 2011

QUESTION NO. 20

QUESTION: Councillor D. Looney

To ask the Manager to clarify the status of the Naas Rd Area Framework, to make a statement on the costs involved in the project, and to state its utility with regard to future planning for the area?

REPLY:

The Naas Road Development Framework is a non-statutory planning guidance document for the relevant area.  The Framework was carried out in relation to securing local Zoning Objective No. 5, (N7 Gateway Corridor-Upgrading), of the County Development Plan 2004-10 and was noted by the Tallaght and Lucan-Clondalkin Area Committees of the Council in April 2010.  The document and it's preparation process have informed the current County Development Plan 2010-16, which is the statutory planning document for the County.  As the Framework is a longer term planning strategy document, it addresses the future potential of the relevant area beyond the life of the current County Development Plan and will inform future planning for the Corridor for some time to come.  The procurement process for the document commenced in 2006 and resulted in the appointment of international consultants (following a competitive tender process), and the completion of the Plan, at a cost of approximately 300,000 euro, .