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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF DEVELOPMENT PLAN MEETING

Thursday, February 04, 2016

MOTION NO. 50

MOTION: Councillor E. Higgins

To add a new local objective: “To support and facilitate the appropriate future development of Peamount Healthcare for rehabilitation and continuing care facilities.”

REPORT:

Submissions DRAFTDEVPLAN0200 & DRAFTDEVPLAN0344 sought the inclusion of an SLO to support and facilitate the future development of Peamount Healthcare for rehabilitation and continuing care facilities, and the rezoning of “surplus lands” at Peamount for enterprise and employment purposes. The submissions related to extensive lands at Peamount, including those located to the south of the R120 and identified as “surplus lands at Peamount (i.e. those not required for existing and future provision of rehabilitation and continuing care facilities)” in the submissions received.

As noted in the Chief Executive Report on the Draft Plan Public Consultation (December 2015), the rezoning of the ‘surplus lands’ from RU to objective EE was considered unnecessary due to the existing quantum of enterprise and employment zoned lands to serve the County and the location of the lands relative to Casement Aerodrome, Baldonnel. With regard to the proposed SLO, the Chief Executive Report (December 2015) noted that having regard to the established use of the subject site, in healthcare use prior to 1963, the listing of ‘Primary Health Care Centre’ as open for consideration in the proposed RU zoning objective of the subject lands, and the provisions of Section 11.1.1 of the Draft Plan regarding ‘Open for Consideration’ and ‘Non Conforming Uses’, an SLO would not be required in this instance.

Notwithstanding the above, having regard to the content of the Motion which relates only to the future development of the existing Peamount Healthcare facility, it considered reasonable to include SLO to facilitate the future development and consolidation of the existing healthcare premises.

Recommendation

It is recommended that this motion is adopted.