COMHAIRLE CONTAE ÁTHA CLIATH THEAS
SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL
MEETING OF DEVELOPMENT PLAN MEETING
Thursday, June 17, 2021
MOTION NO. 139
MOTION: Councillor F. Timmons
That this council agrees that the Development Plan conserves /preserves /protects the Slí Mór (also known in later times as: The Pilgrim Path , The Green Road and Knockmeenagh Lane.) (It is vital that this ancient roadway is not updated or modernised, but maintained in a archaeologically sympathetic way. It dates back to at least 500 BC (much older than the Round Tower). It was part of the Five Great Roads of Ireland. It went from Dublin City to Galway City, and was important for trade and communication. It is possibly the last part of it still extant in a village setting. Much of it has already disappeared in the rest of the country because people have ploughed it, mined it for gravel etc or put houses on it.)
REPORT:
It is proposed to include a new objective in the Development Plan for the preparation of a LAP for Clondalkin. A wide variety of issues would be dealt with under the remit of the LAP which would include a conservation plan for the village area. The issue of identifying the route of the Slí Mór and associated conservation and protection raised in the motion would be dealt with as part of this conservation plan. The new objective would read as follows:
To prepare a LAP for Clondalkin, the extent of the boundary to be defined, which will be guided by the Local Area Plans Guidelines for Planning Authorities, 2013 (Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government) or any superseding guidelines and which will incorporate:
− A vision for the development of Clondalkin
− Wider urban design principles
− Framework plans for larger infill sites
− A Conservation Plan
− A local Green Infrastructure strategy derived from the County GI Strategy
− Transport movement study.’
Recommendation: It is recommended that the motion be adopted with amendment, to recognise that the issues raised in the motion will be dealt with through the inclusion of a new objective in the Development Plan as follows:
‘To prepare a LAP for Clondalkin, the extent of the boundary to be defined, which will be guided by the Local Area Plans Guidelines for Planning Authorities, 2013 (Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government) or any superseding guidelines and which will incorporate:
- A vision for the development of Clondalkin
- Wider urban design principles
- Framework plans for larger infill sites
- A Conservation Plan
- A local Green Infrastructure strategy derived from the County GI Strategy
- Traffic movement study.’