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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

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MEETING OF DEVELOPMENT PLAN MEETING

Thursday, February 04, 2016

MOTION NO. 108

MOTION: Councillor W. Lavelle

Retail Planning

To decline to accept the Chief Executive’s recommendation in relation to the addition to the plans of a ‘Hypermarket’ use class.

Co-sponsored by Cllr. Brophy, Casserly, Dermody, Donovan, Egan

 

REPORT:

In terms of land use classes, it is noted that the Retail Planning Guidelines 2012 includes a definition for Hypermarket as:

‘Single or multi-level self-service store selling both food and a range of comparison goods, with net retail floorspace area in excess of 5,000 M2 with integrated or shared parking’

Retail Policy 1 Objective 7 refers to Hypermarket in the content and as such, it is considered that the land use class should be added to Schedule 5 of the Draft Plan and integrated into the Land Use zoning matrix. The content of R1 Objective 7 is noted as it states

‘to support, subject to identified need, the development of smaller and medium sized supermarkets in preference to superstore and hypermarket outlets, development of which should be generally limited’.

The consideration of Hypermarket as permitted in principle, open for consideration or not permitted in each zone is in accordance with the overarching Retail policy in the Draft Plan and be consistent with R1 Objective 7. The provision of Hypermarket as a definition and land use class would include the following integration into the Land Use Zoning Tables in Chapter 11:

 

Land Use Zonings

Permitted in Principle

None

Open for Consideration

Town Centre (TC); District Centre (DC); Major Retail Centre (MRC);

Not Permitted

Existing Residential (RES), New residential (RES-N), Village Centre (VC), Local Centre (LC), Enterprise and Employment (EE), Retail Warehousing (RW), High Amenity Zones (HA –DM/ DV/ LV), Open Space (OS ) & Rural and Agricultural (RU)

It is considered that the integration of the prescribed retail land use class from the Retail Planning Guidelines (2012) into the Land Use tables of the Plan provides clarity to the content of Retail Policy 1 Objective 7.

Recommendation

It is recommended that this motion is not adopted.