COMHAIRLE CONTAE ÁTHA CLIATH THEAS
SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL
MEETING OF DEVELOPMENT PLAN MEETING
Thursday, June 17, 2021
MOTION NO. 151
MOTION: Councillor Shane Moynihan
That this Council includes an appropriate objective to secure the preservation and enhancement of the Mill Lane heritage and amenity area in Palmerstown.
REPORT:
The Mill Lane in Palmerstown is located within the Architectural Conservation Area (Palmerstown Lower-Mill Complex). There is an existing policy in the Draft Plan to preserve and enhance ACAs:
NCBH Policy 20 – ‘Preserve and enhance the historic character and visual setting of Architectural Conservation Areas and carefully consider any proposals for development that would affect the special value of such areas’.
There are a range of further policies and objectives within the Draft Plan to conserve and enhance heritage within the County, such as:
NCBH Policy 26 – ‘Secure the identification, protection and conservation of historic items and features of interest throughout the County including street furniture, surface finishes, roadside installations, items of industrial heritage and other stand-alone features of interest’.
NCBH Policy 25 – ‘To encourage the conservation and protection of older features, buildings and groups of structures that are of historic character including 19th Century and early to mid- 20th Century houses, housing estates and streetscapes’.
NCBH 25 Objective 1 – ‘To retain existing buildings that, while not listed as Protected Structures, are considered to contribute to historic character, local character, visual setting, rural amenity or streetscape value within the County’.
It is considered that the policies and objectives outlined above capture the overall aim of the motion and it is not necessary to define specific locations which are covered by the policy. It is therefore considered that the Motion can be adopted with amendment to reflect the fact that the intent of the motion is expressed in existing policies/objectives NCBH Policy 20, NCBH Policy 26, NCBH Policy 25 and NCBH 25 Objective 1.
Recommendation:
It is recommended that this motion is adopted with amendment?to reflect?that the?existing policies/objectives NCBH Policy 20, NCBH Policy 26, NCBH Policy 25 and NCBH 25 Objective 1 as currently set out in the CE Draft Plan?are sufficient to provide for the intent of the motion:
NCBH Policy 20 – ‘Preserve and enhance the historic character and visual setting of Architectural Conservation Areas and carefully consider any proposals for development that would affect the special value of such areas’.
and
NCBH Policy 26 – ‘Secure the identification, protection and conservation of historic items and features of interest throughout the County including street furniture, surface finishes, roadside installations, items of industrial heritage and other stand-alone features of interest’
and
NCBH Policy 25 – ‘To encourage the conservation and protection of older features, buildings and groups of structures that are of historic character including 19th Century and early to mid- 20th Century houses, housing estates and streetscapes’.
and
NCBH 25 Objective 1 – ‘To retain existing buildings that, while not listed as Protected Structures, are considered to contribute to historic character, local character, visual setting, rural amenity or streetscape value within the County’.