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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF SDZ, LAPS AND PLANNING PROJECTS

Thursday, January 23, 2020

MOTION NO. 28

MOTION: Councillor M. Duff

This Council calls on the CE to limit the number of Data Centres in the Tallaght Centre Local Area Plan  in the Regen Zone, due to the lack of employment opportunities per floorspace in these Centres and to encourage industries that will offer higher numbers of jobs that will impact positively on future employment figures  

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.

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 comply with these policies and objectives of the LAP.

RECOMMENDATION:

It is recommended that this motion is not adopted.