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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF DEVELOPMENT PLAN MEETING

Thursday, February 04, 2016

MOTION NO. 28

MOTION: Councillor W. Lavelle

Mount Bellew Way, Lucan

That Maps No. 1/2 be amended to rezone lands at Mount Bellew Way, located between Fforster Square & Lucan Educate Together NS to zoning ‘OS’ to facilitate development of amenities for the community.

Co-sponsored by Cllr. Casserly

REPORT:

Previous & Concurrent Motion

The same motion was submitted to the June 2015 Development Plan Meeting under Motion 88 (ID 45122) and was taken together with Motion 87 at the same meeting. Following a vote on the motions, it was agreed to insert a Specific Local Objective into the Draft Development Plan (TM7 SLO 1), which relates to the provision of access and visitor parking as part of future residential development together with the facilitation of drop off and pick up arrangements at the neighbouring Lucan Educate Together NS.

There is also a concurrent motion (47876) seeking to increase the requirement for visitor parking spaces from 10 to 20 and to delete the word ‘residential’.

Core Strategy Requirements

The Core Strategy in Chapter 1 of the Draft Plan identifies a growth in population of over 26,300 people and a need for over 32,000 dwellings during the lifetimes of the County Development Plan and it is a requirement to ensure that enough lands are zoned for such need and in appropriate places. The subject lands are designated within the Metropolitan Consolidation Town of Lucan and are positioned to help meet the population and housing needs of the County and prevent a sprawl of development beyond the boundaries of the identified settlements and into rural and high amenity areas of the County that are not served by public transport, services and facilities.

This is reflected by the Core Strategy contained in the Draft County Development Plan, which seeks to ensure that zoned lands are located to gain maximum benefit from existing assets such as the adjacent national school, parklands and local centre through consolidation and increasing densities within the existing built footprint of the Metropolitan Consolidation Towns.

In the context that that there are more than sufficient parklands and open spaces located within the vicinity of the subject site including Willsbrook Park, Hermitage Park and Griffeen Valley Park, the removal of the proposed RES-N zoning objective from the lands would represent in inefficient use of housing lands that have access to services and facilities within a Metropolitan Consolidation Town.

Recommendation

It is recommended that this motion is not adopted.