COMHAIRLE CONTAE ÁTHA CLIATH THEAS
SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF DEVELOPMENT PLAN MEETING

Thursday, June 17, 2021

MOTION NO.

MOTION: Councillor Carly Bailey

To amend: H13 Objective 4: To promote and encourage 'Living-Over-The-Shop' residential uses on the upper floors of appropriate buildings located in Town, District, Local and Village Centres within the County save for public houses and nightclubs and other inappropriate places where similar business is conducted and to provide incentives to property owners that will translate in rent reductions to tenants that take up such tenancies.

REPORT:

The motion seeks to amend Chapter 6, H13 Objective 4 which sets out to “To promote and encourage ‘Living-Over-The-Shop’ residential uses on the upper floors of appropriate buildings located in Town, District, Local and Village Centres within the County save for public houses and nightclubs and other inappropriate places where similar business is conducted.”

The motion proposes that the following text to be added “…and to provide incentives to property owners that will translate in rent reductions to tenants that take up such tenancies.”

It is proposed therefore that H13 Objective 4 would read as follows: To promote and encourage 'Living-Over-The-Shop' residential uses on the upper floors of appropriate buildings located in Town, District, Local and Village Centres within the County save for public houses and nightclubs and other inappropriate places where similar business is conducted and to provide incentives to property owners that will translate in rent reductions to tenants that take up such tenancies.

The provision of incentives to property owners that will translate in rent reductions to tenants is beyond the functions of the Draft County Development Plan and therefore this motion is beyond the remit of the Development Plan.

Recommendation: It is recommended that this motion is not adopted