COMHAIRLE CONTAE ÁTHA CLIATH THEAS
SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF DEVELOPMENT PLAN MEETING

Wednesday, January 27, 2021

MOTION NO. 219

MOTION: Councillor E. O'Brien

The County Development plan will seek to ensure safe cycling routes are incorporated into all future school developments and extensions to existing schools to promote safe cycling to and from schools

REPORT:

The Cycle South Dublin consultation document noted that, ‘today in South Dublin 50% of children are driven to school by car (Census 2016)’.  Among the aims of Cycle South Dublin is to make cycling a more achievable mode of transport for all adults and children.  The motion is broadly supported by several CE Strategic Recommendations under the ‘Sustainable Mobility – Walking and Cycling’ heading including bullet point 3 ‘Support the delivery of a sustainable movement study and the Cycle South Dublin Strategy to promote permeable and compact communities with access to amenities, business, employment and retail areas and to improve mobility’.  However, it is considered appropriate to amend this Strategic Recommendation to make explicit reference to schools, given the scope for considerable modal shift away from the private car, towards cycling.

Recommendation:

It is recommended that this motion is adopted with amendment.  The CE Recommendation bullet point 3 (Sustainable Movement – Walking and Cycling) should be amended so that it reads as follows: 

‘Support the delivery of a sustainable movement study and the Cycle South Dublin Strategy to promote permeable and compact communities with access to amenities, business, schools, employment and retail areas and to improve mobility’.