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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF DEVELOPMENT PLAN MEETING

Wednesday, January 27, 2021

MOTION NO. 210

MOTION: Councillor Peter Kavanagh

To include the following as strategic direction for the plan: Sustainable Movement · Promote a modal shift away from car ownership in brownfield development sites.

REPORT:

South Dublin County Development Plan 2022-2028 will support a move towards active travel in line with what is stated in the NPF and RSES.

Objectives in the NPF aimed at reducing car dependency include National Policy Objective 13 which states, ‘In urban areas, planning and related standards, including in particular building height and car parking will be based on performance criteria that seek to achieve well-designed high quality outcomes in order to achieve targeted growth. These standards will be subject to a range of tolerance that enables alternative solutions to be proposed to achieve stated outcomes, provided public safety is not compromised and the environment is suitably protected.’

Attention is drawn also to Section 3 of the CE Report, bullet no.1 under Sustainable Movement, where it is recommended that the Draft Plan should ‘Direct compact growth around existing and planned services ensuring that transport and land use are integrated to the greatest extent possible so that the demand for travel in general and for car-based travel is reduced.’

The motion is broadly supported by the above CE Strategic Recommendation, which supports a general modal shift away from car ownership through the compact growth model where land use and transport can be most efficiently integrated to provide for a move away from car dependency. 

Recommendation:

It is recommended that this motion is adopted with amendment to recognise that this type of objective is overly specific for this strategic stage but could be considered as part of the draft plan preparation on foot of the strategic direction provided under the CE Recommendation 

‘Direct compact growth around existing and planned services ensuring that transport and land use are integrated to the greatest extent possible so that the demand for travel in general and for car-based travel is reduced.’