COMHAIRLE CONTAE ÁTHA CLIATH THEAS
SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL
MEETING OF DEVELOPMENT PLAN MEETING
Thursday, June 17, 2021
MOTION NO. 63
MOTION: Councillor Peter Kavanagh, Councillor Liam Sinclair, Councillor L. Donaghy, Councillor S.McEneaney
Core Strategy and Settlement Strategy Motion: To insert a new objective in CS1 - To Develop Local Area Plans for the self-contained settlements of Rathcoole and Saggart.
REPORT:
The Draft County Development Plan states that Local Area Plans will be prepared for areas where new development requires a co-ordinated approach and in particular for areas that are likely to experience large scale residential or commercial development or regeneration.
As part of the deliverability analysis, the Core Strategy Table 10 identifies that approximately 7% of the total units to be constructed over the plan period will be located within the three settlements of Saggart, Newcastle and Rathcoole totalling 1,314 units approximately, developing at an incremental pace based on the delivery of social, physical and transport infrastructure and services.
As major development is not anticipated within the settlement of Saggart (0.5% of the total units 96 units) during the lifetime of the Draft Plan, it is considered that an objective to prepare a Local Area Plan is not justified at this time.
In regard to the area of Rathcoole, Table 10 provides for a growth of 580 units over the plan period (averaging less than 100 units/year). Rathcoole is not an area that will experience significant large-scale development, therefore, and having regard to the masterplanning of any Council owned or associated land, it is not considered appropriate to include a specific objective for an LAP as outlined in the above motion.
It should be noted that there is an SLO in the draft Plan to ‘Investigate the need to carry out a traffic and transport study for Rathcoole, Saggart and Newcastle and the surrounding areas following the publication of the GDA Strategy review to 2042, which will clarify the context within which the road network in the area will function’.
In line with the provisions of Chapter 5 Quality Design and Healthy Placemaking policy QDP13 it is a policy of the plan to prepare Local Area Plans as appropriate, prioritising areas that are likely to experience large scale residential or commercial development or regeneration. Having regard to the relatively low quantum of development planned for these villages, to the various policies and objectives in the Plan to ensure sensitive development and to the SLO to investigate the need for a traffic and transport study, and to the need to prioritise LAPs in areas of more significant planned development, LAPs are not required for Saggart and Rathcoole.
CE Recommendation:
It is recommended that this motion is not adopted.