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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

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MEETING OF LUCAN AREA COMMITTEE

Tuesday, November 27, 2018

QUESTION NO. 4

QUESTION: Councillor L. O'Toole

"To ask the Chief Executive how South Dublin County Council plan on addressing the issue of electric cars in planning permission going forward? With planning pushing for parking to be outside peoples curtilage (or communal etc) where are people expected to charge these cars given the to push to get people driving them?" 

REPLY:

Current County Development Policy requires that up to 10% of all car-parking spaces provided as part of developments must facilitate electric charging points, whilst the remainder of spaces provided must be capable of accommodating future charging points, as may be required. This requirement is being delivered through the development management process, whereby developers are obliged to provide designated car-parking spaces, complete with electric charging points. Allied to this, all spaces proposed in schemes must be designed for the future use of charging points.

South Dublin County Council will continue to monitor the uptake of electric cars and as demand for electric cars increases, South Dublin County Council will seek the provision of higher levels of designated car-parking spaces with electric charging points in all developments.