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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF CLONDALKIN AREA COMMITTEE

Wednesday, June 16, 2021

MOTION NO. 11

MOTION: Councillor F. Timmons

"That the Clondalkin Area Committee agrees that any and all copies of the ecological results pertaining to the Rathcoole Master Plan, Rathcoole Woodlands and other lands under the Master Plan are released to the Committee and the Four Districts Woodland Group. The Committee asks that this be done in advance of any Area Meeting or Council meeting at which the housing proposal will be presented and as a matter of urgency given the highly sensitive nature of the site and the plan."

REPORT:

All finalised ecological reports relating to the master planned lands at Rathcoole can be made available to members and have been made available to the Four District Woodlands Group.  SDCC are currently in receipt of a draft ecological report for detailed ecological surveys carried out during 2020 which needs to be updated following further surveys commissioned and undertaken in May 2021 to further inform the masterplan for these lands.  As the report relates to ecological surveys and findings in the course of completion and therefore unfinished it would be premature to comment on the findings or release incomplete material. The appointed consultants and ecologists have been requested to update reports as a matter of priority. Once finalised SDCC will be able to make an informed decision on the masterplan for these lands and in progressing development of these lands SDCC will publish the accompanying environmental assessment.