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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF DEVELOPMENT PLAN MEETING

Thursday, June 17, 2021

MOTION NO. 168

MOTION: Councillor R. McMahon

Section 3.2 Objective NCBH 1 Objective 3. To add in at end of objective 3 "and of development"

REPORT:

This motion is proposing to insert additional wording into NCBH 1 Objective 3 from:

“To pilot an assessment of the County’s natural and built heritage assets including Council owned protected structures and archaeological features and to identify and safeguard these assets from the potential impacts of climate change”.

To:

“To pilot an assessment of the County’s natural and built heritage assets including Council owned protected structures and archaeological features and to identify and safeguard these assets from the potential impacts of climate change and of development”.

Climate change has a worldwide application and its implications for now and the future is why its assessment is set out in the overarching policy in this chapter.  

The essence of this objective is about assessing the effects of climate change and to include the wording ‘and of development’ dilutes what this objective is trying to achieve. There are other policies and objectives in the Draft Plan which have been formulated to safeguard natural and built heritage assets from development. These are placed throughout the Plan, being a key part of the GI Strategy in Chapter 4, of the Built and Natural Heritage sections of Chapter 3, in Quality Design and Healthy Placemaking in Chapter 4 to name but some of the relevant sections of the Plan where these objectives are.

To include the words ‘and of development’ would make any pilot assessment so broad as to be not feasible given its already broad remit to assess natural and built heritage assets from the potential impacts of climate change.

Recommendation

It is recommended that is motion is not adopted.