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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF LUCAN/PALMERSTOWN/NORTH CLONDALKIN AREA COMMITTEE

Tuesday, February 23, 2021

QUESTION NO. 14

QUESTION: Councillor L. O'Toole

This committee discussed a motion on Right Of Way at St Edmundsbury lands in a previous meeting and it was agreed to look into the process in implementing ROW passage. To ask Chief Executive to provide the members with the details of this process.

REPLY:

Part XIII of the Planning Act, Amenities, under section 206 deals with the creation of public rights of way by agreement. Under this section, a landowner can dedicate a specific route by agreement with the local authority. Once this agreement is made a planning authority must take all steps to secure the public right of way and enter it into the register.

Section 207 of the Act provides for compulsory powers for creation of public rights of way. Where a need for a public ROW is identified, the authority may, by resolution, make an order creating it and then follow a set out procedure to confirm it. 

The matter of creating Rights of Way has been discussed as part of the Development Plan Process and the strategic direction agreed is to ‘Review and update existing policies and objectives to support the protection and promotion of public rights of way or rights of way across the County where they are identified within the lifetime of the plan’.