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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

Monday, February 13, 2012

HEADED ITEM NO. 11

HEADED ITEM: B. Gorman

PROPOSED VARIATION OF THE COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN IN RESPECT OF BALDONNELL AERODROME

REPLY:

Policy EE41 of the South Dublin County Development Plan 2010-2016 ‘Casement Aerodrome – Security Consultation Zone’ states

‘It is the policy of the Council to seek to amend the Security Zone Restriction around Casement Aerodrome so that it becomes a Security Consultation Zone, within which standard security measures will be applied in line with international best practice at military and civilian aerodromes. Furthermore, the said issue shall be brought back to this Council within one year of adoption of this Development Plan to be considered by way of variation of the Development Plan when full technical and legal advice is available to the Members’. 

Since the adoption of the Development Plan in October 2010 the Planning Department has engaged in discussions with the Department of Defence. Arising from this work a protocol which would facilitate development of zoned land within the Casement Aerodrome security zone without compromising the security of the aerodrome is proposed to be inserted into the Development Plan. 

Criteria to address security concerns, either as part of a development submission or as a condition of permission, include:

• The creation of a sterile zone between the existing Security Zone fence and the boundary of the development, subject to a minimum width of 2.5 metres. 
• The provision of a 3 metre high clear visibility fence where the development shares a boundary with the Aerodrome.
• CCTV coverage of any new development along the aerodrome perimeter.
• Building restrictions including distance from perimeter, site layout, limitations on windows and secure roofs.

Proposed amendments to the Development Plan have been drafted on this basis and it is proposed that these would form a Variation to the Development Plan. 

The text to be amended is contained in the Enterprise and Employment section of the Plan, and Schedule 4 ‘Casement Aerodrome, Baldonnell’.  

These amendments are attached in full as an appendix (text to be deleted shown in red strikethrough; additional text shown in green). 

 In summary, the principal amendments are as follows:

Section 3.2.23 (Enterprise and Employment) :

Deletion of Policy EE40 ‘Restriction Area at Casement Aerodrome’

Reason: - Objective has been met.

 Deletion of Policy EE41 ‘Casement Aerodrome - Security Consultation Zone’

Reason: - Objective has been met.

 New Policy EE40:‘Requirements for Development within the Security Zone at Casement Aerodrome, Baldonnell’

Reason: - To set out the criteria for development. 

Schedule 4 – Casement Aerodrome, Baldonnell

 New section:  ‘Section 1 – Requirements for Development within the Security Zone at Casement Aerodrome, Baldonnell’

Reason: - In order to reiterate in the Schedule, the provisions of new Policy EE40.

 It is considered that the proposed amendments allow for a clear balance to be struck between the development of zoned land and the maintenance of appropriate security at Casement Aerodrome which will allow for the future proper planning and sustainable development of the area. 

 

RECOMMENDATION:

Accordingly, it is recommended to the Council that the statutory procedure for the making of a Variation to the County Development Plan be initiated on this basis.