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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF SDZ, LAPS AND PLANNING PROJECTS

Friday, January 26, 2018

MOTION NO. 96

MOTION: Councillor G. O'Connell

Sections 2.2.3. and 2.2.4. Heavy Goods Vehicles shall be restricted from residential areas and deliveries/collections within all such areas will be time regulated.

Councillors Guss O’Connell, Liona O’Toole, Francis Timmons and Paul Gogarty.

REPORT:

Response

The Draft Planning Scheme already accords with the intent of the subject motion in terms of discouraging traffic including heavy good vehicles from Local Streets in residential areas. It is beyond the scope of the Draft Planning Scheme to set time limits for deliveries and collections and the wording of the subject motion would undermine with the street design strategy of the Draft planning scheme and DMURS in terms of directing traffic onto wider Link Streets and Arterial including those that bound residential areas.

It is a requirement of Section 2.2.4 of the Draft Planning Scheme for Local Streets to be designed as traffic calmed thoroughfares for lower traffic volumes and slower speeds. Furthermore, it is a requirement for Local Streets that provide through routes for strategic pedestrian and cycle routes should be filtered to restrict vehicular access.

In order to discourage fast moving traffic and heavy vehicles, Fig 2.2.6 illustrates that Local streets shall be designed with narrowed carriageways and narrowed lanes in accordance with DMURS. It is also a requirement for such streets to be designed with reduced corner radii in order to further discourage heavy vehicles.

It is a requirement of the Draft Planning Scheme and DMURS to design the more strategic Link Street and Arterial Streets with wider carriageways for larger volumes of traffic and larger vehicles. This further helps to discourage such vehicles from Local Streets. The wording to the subject motion would undermine this strategy for large sections of Link Streets and Arterial Streets that bound residential areas and would result in such vehicles being directed to less appropriate streets outside of the SDZ lands.

Apart from design responses, it is also beyond the scope of the Draft Planning Scheme to set restrictions for vehicles and set time limits for deliveries and collections. Such restrictions are normally dealt with by way of overall council policy on heavy goods vehicles etc.

The intent of the proposed motion has been fulfilled by the Draft Planning Scheme, in terms of restricting heavy goods vehicles from quieter residential areas, and no amendment to the Planning Scheme is required it this regard.

Recommendation

It is recommended that this motion is not adopted.

Strategic Environmental Assessment of Chief Executive’s Recommendation

No interaction with Strategic Environmental Objectives.

Appropriate Assessment Screening of Chief Executive’s Recommendation

No likely significant effects on European sites within the SDZ’s zone of influence are predicted.