COMHAIRLE CONTAE ÁTHA CLIATH THEAS
SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF DEVELOPMENT PLAN MEETING

Thursday, June 18, 2015

MOTION NO. 162

MOTION: Councillor P. Gogarty

Amend Zoning Objective MU Open For Consideration to read: Allotment, Bed & Breakfast, Boarding Kennels, Car Park, Crematoria, Cultural Use, Doctor/Dentist, Embassy, Funeral Home, Garden Centre, Guest House, Hospital, Industry-General, , Nursing Home, Off-Licence, Place of Worship, Primary Health Care Centre, Public House, Recycling Facility, Retail Warehouse, Retirement Home, Service Garage, Shop-Neighbourhood, Social Club, Veterinary Surgery, Warehousing, Wholesale Outlet.

Co-sponsored by Cllrs Liona O’Toole, Deirdre O Donovan, Guss O’Connell, Francis Timmons, Francis Noel Duffy

REPORT:

The CE Draft Plan introduces the ‘Mixed Use (MU)’ Zoning Objective - To facilitate enterprise and/or residential led development’.

The Council seeks to support and facilitate the regeneration of underutilised industrial lands that are proximate to town centres and transport nodes to provide for a more intensive mix of enterprise and / or residential led development. Many of these areas have high levels of vacancy, poor environmental quality and fragmented land ownerships. The incremental development of sites will result in transition areas between residential uses and enterprise uses. Given the transitional nature of the zone, precautions will be taken to ensure that the potential for noise pollution, air pollution or other nuisance from established industrial uses will not exceed acceptable environmental standards for any future occupants. Furthermore, any new enterprise land uses should generally be more compatible to residential amenity. As such, the Land Use tables are of particular importance in this hybrid zone where a combination of enterprise and residential uses are envisaged.

The land use tables for ‘MU’ are largely derived as a mix of the ‘EE’ and ‘RES’ zoning tables.

The motion proposes to amend the land uses ‘Open for Consideration’ as follows:

Boarding Kennels - Include

Nightclub – Omit

Refuse Transfer Station – Omit

Betting Office – Omit

It is considered that the proposed changes to use classes in Table 11.4 are acceptable.

Recommendation

It is recommended that this motion is adopted