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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

Monday, January 14, 2013

QUESTION NO. 4

QUESTION: Councillor W. Lavelle

To ask the Manager to provide a detailed update on this council’s current engagement with the National Transport Authority and/or adjoining local authorities with respect to joint work on land-use, transport or economic development studies or strategies?

REPLY:

Since April 2012 the Planning Department has participated in an initiative of the Department of the Environment and National Transport Authority in relation to large-scale development sites in the Dublin region in respect of which significant infrastructural investment has taken place and which remain available for development.  This was partly in response to concerns expressed by the construction industry that notwithstanding an oversupply of housing nationally in recent years, there may be a shortage of land available for residential developent in the Dublin area in the near future.  There are several such sites in each of the four Dublin local authority areas, all of whom are represented at this forum by the relevant planning staff.  Consultants have been engaged by NTA and it is understood that a preliminary draft stage report was prepared towards the end of 2012, although this required further work.  It is expected that this work will continue in 2013 and members will be updated as the project progresses.