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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF CLONDALKIN AREA COMMITTEE

Wednesday, October 16, 2019

MOTION NO. 9

MOTION: Councillor F. Timmons

"That this Area Committee calls on the Chief Executive to initiate a Local Area Plan for Rathcoole."

REPORT:

The County Development Plan 2016 - 2022 outlines what Local Area Plans will be prepared during it's 6 year lifetime. Under this Plan, Rathcoole is not an area which will be subject to the preparation of a Local Area Plan (LAP).

The Local Area Plan Guidelines for Planning Authorities (2013) advise that the decision to make a Local Area Plan should take cognisance of the degree to which major development is anticipated such as to justify the preparation of a stand alone plan, the resource implications and the need to focus resources in using the local area plan process for areas where major alterations to the built environment are anticipated. In this context and having regard to the established nature of the Rathcoole area, it is considered that the County Development Plan is an appropriate policy context for Rathcoole.

Furthermore, the Chief Executive outlines that the LAP process requires resources and the priority for these resources is in completing the Tallaght Town Centre LAP, continuing the formulation of a Framework/LAP for the Naas Road area and implementing the Planning Schemes and LAP for Clonburris, Adamstown, Fortunestown and Ballycullen – Oldcourt respectively.