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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF DEVELOPMENT PLAN MEETING

Thursday, February 04, 2016

MOTION NO. 75

MOTION: Councillor P. Gogarty

Motion: Cllr P. Gogarty, Cllr G. O’Connell, Cllr L O’Toole

To delete from C7 Objective 7 through to and including C7 Objective 11 and replace with the following:

C7 Objective 7:

To provide for a multi-use sports and community campus off the Newcastle Road to include and enhance existing facilities and add new facilities in a modular way to provide a hub for sports activities in the Lucan area, including provision for multi-storey buildings where appropriate.

C7 Objective 8:

To provide a swimming pool for Lucan on a new sports and leisure centre campus off the Newcastle Road; or at Griffeen Sports and Leisure Centre, the most suitable location to be sought as part of an extensive public consultation process; with any swimming pool building being modular in design and able to integrate and operate in conjunction with existing and future facilities, including having sufficient capacity built in to provide storage space for sports equipment from local clubs.

C7 Objective 9:

To support the development and promotion of an athletics track, built to a National standard, within the Lucan area, ideally within the designated location for a multi-use sports and community campus off the Newcastle Road.

C7 Objective 10:

To make available suitable Council owned brown land sites and buildings to sport, arts and community groups on a temporary basis.

C7 Objective 11:

To include a BMX facility for consideration in the review of the Jobstown Park Masterplan.

C7 Objective 12:

To support the review of the County’s playing pitches.

REPORT:

The Chief Executive’s Amendments to the Member’s Draft Copy noted a correction to the written text of the Draft Plan 2016-2022 to correct a formatting error, namely the erroneous inversion of the wording of C7 Policy 7 and Policy C7 SLO1 (p56 of Draft Plan).

In this regard, it is noted that existing Policy C7 Objective 7 states:

‘To provide a swimming pool for Lucan on a new sports and leisure centre campus at Griffeen; alternative locations to be sought as part of an extensive public consultation process but with Griffeen identified as the default site. The new sports facility will ensure that sufficient capacity is built in to provide storage space for sports equipment from local clubs’.

and existing Policy C7 SLO 1 states:

‘To support District Level Community Hubs in the Metropolitan Consolidation Towns of Tallaght, Lucan and Clondalkin, to serve the growing population of these settlements and of the County as a whole. Such hubs should incorporate a sports centre with swimming pool, all weather playing pitches and children’s play facilities’.

The wording of C7 Objective 7 – to be corrected as C7 SLO1 – is unchanged from the SLO wording proposed by Councillor P. Gogarty (Co-sponsored by Cllrs Guss O’Connell, Liona O’Toole, and Francis Timmons), under Motion 118 (Item 45358), and adopted at the Draft Development Plan Meeting on 18^th June 2015 with regard to the provision of a swimming pool for Lucan on a new sports and leisure centre campus at Griffeen (as a default site).

The wording of C7 Objective 8 as proposed under this Motion is therefore considered to be adequately addressed under C Policy 7, as corrected, in this regard.

The wording of C7 Objective 7 and C7 Objective 8, as proposed under this Motion, are considered to be overly specific and would restrict the assessment of alternative locations of a swimming pool and National standard athletics track if required. It is noted that the C7 Objective 7 of the Draft Plan – subject to the correction detailed above – would provide for District Level Community Hubs in the Metropolitan Consolidation Towns of Tallaght, Lucan and Clondalkin, to serve the growing population of these settlements and of the County as a whole, with such hubs proposed to incorporate a sports centre with swimming pool, all weather playing pitches and children’s play facilities. In addition, C7 Objective 8 of the Draft Plan provides for the development and promotion of an athletics track, built to a National standard, within the Lucan area and situated close to a major public transport route.

The existing Policies and Objectives of the Draft Plan detailed above are therefore considered adequate and appropriate in this regard.

The wording of C7 Objective 10, C7 Objective 11 and C7 Objective 12, as proposed under this Motion, are unchanged from the wording of existing C7 Objective 9, C7 Objective 10 and C7 Objective 11 of the Draft Plan respectively. No change is therefore required in this regard.

Recommendation

It is recommended that this motion is not adopted.