COMHAIRLE CONTAE ÁTHA CLIATH THEAS
SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF DEVELOPMENT PLAN MEETING

Thursday, June 18, 2015

MOTION NO. 192

MOTION: Councillor P. Gogarty

Amend R6 Objective 2 to read: To ensure that the scale and type of retail offer in District Centres is sufficient to serve a district catchment, without adversely impacting on or drawing trade from higher order retail centres, the exception being SDZ highest density urban areas, (see below)

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

REPORT:

Related Motion – Item no. 45199 states:

Amend page 90 5.6.4 District Centres R6 Objective 3 to read:

To support and facilitate the development of new District Centres of an appropriate high density urban scale at Adamstown and Clonburris in accordance with approved Planning Schemes which should provide a sustainable retail mix including department stores and shopping centres that facilitates walking and use of public transport and reduces car journeys outside the SDZ for many retail needs.

This motion (item no. 45197) proposes the following objective:

To ensure that the scale and type of retail offer in District Centres is sufficient to serve a district catchment, without adversely impacting on or drawing trade from higher order retail centres, the exception being SDZ highest density urban areas

This motion reads that the SDZ centres are exempted from adversely impacting on or drawing trade from higher order retail centres. This may be an unintended meaning.

Having regard to the proposed amendment to R6 Objective 3 above and the Chief Executive’s recommendation to adopt Motion (Item no. 45199), it Is considered that the inclusion of the text

‘exception being SDZ highest density urban areas’ in R6 Objective 2 contradicts the overall aim of the retail policies in the CE Draft, undermines the retail hierarchy and impacts on the application of the sequential test to new development.

The CE Draft Plan establishes Clondalkin Town Centre as a primary urban centre in the Urban Hierarchy and as a Level 3 retail centre in the Retail Hierarchy (only below Tallaght and Liffey Valley) with a policy to enhance the retailing function.

The inclusion of ‘the exception being SDZ highest density urban areas’ would enable the development of the Clonburris SDZ District Centre to a scale and type to compete for the existing trade in Clondalkin and Tallaght.

It is considered that the design, quality and density of the SDZ centres is addressed in R2 Objective 3 and the approved Planning Schemes.

Recommendation

It is recommended that the motion be adopted with amendment.

To ensure that the scale and type of retail offer in District Centres is sufficient to serve a district catchment, without adversely impacting on or drawing trade from higher order retail centres,