COMHAIRLE CONTAE ÁTHA CLIATH THEAS
SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL
MEETING OF DEVELOPMENT PLAN MEETING
Thursday, June 17, 2021
MOTION NO.
MOTION: Councillor M. Duff, Councillor P. Kearns, Councillor Alan Edge
QDP13: SLO: To prepare a new Local Area Plan for Ballyboden.
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 development or that are in need of regeneration.
The Local Area Plans Guidelines for Planning Authorities (2013) advise that the decision to make a Local Area Plan should take cognisance of the degree to which major development is anticipated such as to justify the preparation of a stand alone plan, the resource implications and the need to focus resources in using the local area plan process for areas where major alterations to the built environment are anticipated.
Approximately 9% (7098 people) of the projected population growth in the County up to 2028 is anticipated in the wider neighbourhood area of Templeogue / Rathfarnham / Walkinstown which includes Ballyboden. Recent planning activity in the Ballyboden area includes a grant of permission with conditions by An Bord Pleanala for a Strategic Housing Development (SHD) consisting of 496 no. apartments and a creche on a site at Taylors Lane and Edmondstown Road, Ballyboden. There is an SHD application currently with An Bord Pleanala for 131 no. residential units (21 no. houses, 110 no. apartments) and a creche at Stocking Lane, Ballyboden.
Excluding the permitted and live applications in this area, no further major development is anticipated within the Ballyboden area during the lifetime of the Draft Plan 2022-2028. It is considered therefore that an objective to prepare a Local Area Plan is not justified at this time
Recommendation
It is recommended that this motion is not adopted.