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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

Monday, October 13, 2014

QUESTION NO. 9

QUESTION: Councillor P. Gogarty

To ask the Chief Executive to outline the provisional dates for public display and consultation periods for the upcoming Development Plan process; and if he will make a statement on the matter?

REPLY:

The current stage of the County Development Plan process concludes with the deadline for pre-draft submissions on 31st October next.  As this stage of the process commenced on 5th September, the legislative requirement is for a Report on submissions received, to be made to elected members within 16 weeks of 5th September.  It is aimed to provide this Report prior to Christmas, during the third week of December.

The elected members then have 10 weeks to consider the Report, during which time they may give direction in relation to the preparation of the draft Plan.  It is expected that this would be concluded by mid-late February 2015.  There is then a period of 12 weeks to prepare the Draft Plan, which takes the process to May 2015.  The elected members then have 8 weeks to consider and amend the draft Plan, which will run to early July.

There is then a further period of up to two weeks, before the Draft Plan is then displayed in public for not less than 10 weeks.  It is expected that the period of display and consultation on the draft Plan will be late summer and early autumn 2015.