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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

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MEETING OF RATHFARNHAM/TEMPLEOGUE-TERENURE AREA COMMITTEE

Tuesday, April 09, 2019

QUESTION NO. 2

QUESTION: Councillor D. Looney

"To ask the Chief Executive for an update on the LAP/Masterplanning of the Ballymount/Naas Road lands, a projected timeline for the plans, and to make a statement on the matter."

REPLY:

On the 28 November 2018, the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (the Minister) allocated €200,000 under Category “B” of the Urban Regeneration and Development Fund (URDF) for the preparation of a series of studies to support the development of a masterplan for the Naas Road / Ballymount area.

Category “B” – Projects require funding for technical assistance to enable project development.

The Category “B” Naas Road / Ballymount URDF project requires the following studies to support the preparation of a masterplan:

  1. Transport Assessment & Strategy;
  2. Constraints Study;
  3. Economic Viability Study;
  4. Flood Risk Assessment & Surface Water Management Strategy;
  5. A review of Land Use Zoning and Naas Road Framework Plan (2010); and
  6. Environmental assessment to ensure compliance with the EU Directives in relation to Strategic Environmental Assessment and Habitats.

The URDF allocation will be used to procure a multi-disciplinary team led by urban design consultants to undertake the survey/ analysis stage and masterplanning of the land, in collaboration with Dublin City Council (DCC). In 2019 the delivery of this Category “B” project will position SDCC, in collaboration with DCC, to prepare a Category “A” application for these lands in 2020.

SDCC has established a Capital Projects Team (CPT) to deliver a range of capital projects which includes the Category “B” Naas Road / Ballymount URDF project. The CPT will project manage the delivery of this project from inception to planning stage in conjunction with internal SDCC sponsoring departments and external stakeholders, including the public. The CPT is finalising a project brief for this URDF project in order to engage the relevant consultancy services in Q2 2019.