COMHAIRLE CONTAE ÁTHA CLIATH THEAS
SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF SDZ, LAPS AND PLANNING PROJECTS

Friday, January 26, 2018

MOTION NO.57

MOTION: Councillor M. Ward

Page 21, under Social Housing in paragraph 1 insert “private” between “All” and ‘”development” so the opening sentence should read “All private development shall comply…”

Louise Dunne, Cathal King, Danny O’Brien, Mark Ward

REPORT:

Response

South Dublin County Council as the planning and housing authority for the area is both obligated and mandated to achieve the best possible outcomes in terms of planned, socially integrated housing provision for all of its citizens within the planning scheme. As a major landowner in control of approx. 22% of the land bank within the plan area it is committed to fully utilising this asset together with the statutory obligations imposed by Part V of the Planning and Development Act 2000 (as amended) to maximise the distributed provision of social and affordable housing throughout the SDZ area. The distribution will be subject to appropriate master planning, will involve the integrated development off all lands collectively and where it necessitates commensurate land transfers will be subject to council approval. This integrated approach is aligned to the County Development Plan, the council Housing Strategy, national housing and planning policy and sufficiently agile to allow for the incorporation of any new or additional national strategies supportive of affordability.

The restriction of the requirements of Section 2.1.6 with regards to social housing would be inconsistent with Housing Strategy for the County and the Planning and Development Act 2000 (as amended).

Part V of the Planning and Development Act 2000 (as amended) prescribes the mechanism for delivery of social and affordable. Section 94(4) of the aforementioned legislation states that a housing strategy prepared as part of a County Development Plan shall provide for such accommodation.

Section 168(4) of the Planning and Development Act 2000 (as amended) states that a draft planning scheme for residential development shall be consistent with the relevant Housing Strategy for the County.

Section 96(1) under Part V of the Planning and Development Act 2000 (as amended) states that the provisions in relation to social and affordable housing relates to “any land zoned solely for residential use, or for a mixture of residential and other uses”.

Accordingly, Section 8.5 of the South Dublin County Council Interim Housing Strategy 2016, which states that its “social housing requirement will be applied in relation to all sites that are zoned residential or to the residential portion in a mixed-use development”.

This is reflected under Section 2.1.6 of the Draft Planning Scheme. The restriction of the Draft Planning Scheme’s social housing requirement to private development would render it inconsistent with Housing Strategy for the County and this would not be consistent with the Planning and Development Act 2000 (as amended).

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.