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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF SDZ, LAPS AND PLANNING PROJECTS

Thursday, January 23, 2020

MOTION NO. 27

MOTION: Councillor Teresa Costello

Special Meeting of County Council to consider the Draft Tallaght town Centre Local Area Plan

To achieve intensive enterprise and employment land uses per square metre floor space in Cookstown, Broomhill, Whitestown and Greenhills no further data centres should be permitted. 

There is a very large existing footprint of these in Greenhills and Airton already.

REPORT:

The Draft LAP strongly encourages higher intensity employment uses for this area. A number of policies and objectives addressing SDCC’s commitment to supporting and facilitating enterprise and economic activity in the town centre are set out in Section 4.2 of the Plan. Use as data centre would not normally fit this criteria.

A specific objective in the LAP to refuse a certain development, as suggested in the proposed motion, would effectively be pre-judging any such planning application, such that it would not be considered or assessed on its own merits. Such an objective may also contravene the zoning objectives set out in the County Development Plan, which relate to the entire County.

Objectives for more intensive enterprise and employment uses are reflected throughout the Draft LAP and recommended Chief Executive amendments, particularly for Cookstown and Broomhill, and it will be a matter for development proposals to demonstrate compliance with the policies and objectives of the LAP.

RECOMMENDATION:

It is recommended that this motion is not adopted.