COMHAIRLE CONTAE ÁTHA CLIATH THEAS
SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL
MEETING OF RATHFARNHAM/TEMPLEOGUE/FIRHOUSE/BOHERNABREENA AREA COMMITTEE
Tuesday, June 09, 2020
QUESTION NO. 1
QUESTION: Councillor Carly Bailey
To ask the Chief Executive to update the members in relation to the implementation and administration of the vacant sites levy established under the Urban Regeneration & Housing Act 2015. This levy was brought in as a site activation measure to ensure that vacant land in urban areas is brought into beneficial use and to prevent land hoarding.
To specifically ask the Chief Executive whether SDCC has assigned market valuations to any vacant lands in the Rathfarnham/Templeogue and Firhouse/Bohernabreena Local Electoral Areas, whether an active register is in place and whether levies have been collected to date. If levies have not yet been collected, or any other aspect, to ask the chief executive to make a statement on the matter.
REPLY:
South County Dublin currently has 8 sites on the Vacant Sites Register (VSR) established under the Urban Regeneration & Housing Act 2015. Within the Local Electoral Areas of Rathfarnham/Templeogue and Firhouse/Bohernabreena, there is currently 1 site on the VSR. This is shown in the table below.
|
Registration No. |
Address |
Date Site placed on Register |
Date valuation placed on Register |
|
SD/VS64 |
Lands at the junction of Grange Road, Nutgrove Avenue and Loreto College, Rathfarnham, Dublin 14 |
15th March 2018 |
12th December 2018 |
A market valuation has been assigned to the above site, which will be levied at 7%. This is the first year that this site can be levied as the legislation requires the site to be on the register for a full year – January to January – before levying. The Planning Department is in the process of issuing letters to owners of properties, including this site, demanding payment pursuant to Section 15 of the Urban Regeneration and Housing Act, 2015, (as amended). These demands can be appealed to An Bord Pleanala. No levies have been collected to date.
South Dublin's VSR can be found at this website address: