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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF DEVELOPMENT PLAN MEETING

Wednesday, June 22, 2022

MOTION NO. 9

MOTION: Councillor Joanna Tuffy

To modify amendment 4.9 regarding G17 SL02 (page 130 CE Report) as follows: that any works necessary to facilitate the development of new residential communities on the lands the subject of CS10 SLO1 are permitted on the lands the subject of G17 SL02, including any works to do with servicing of lands to facilitate the new residential development, and any works to ensure proper access to the new residential development by way of roads and footpaths etc.

REPORT:   

The motion seeks to modify GI7 SLO2 which currently reads:

To ensure the adequate protection and augmentation of the identified Alluvial Rathcoole Woodlands within the zoning RU, and in recognising their value as green infrastructure and the potential linkages to Lugg Woods and Slade Valley and other amenity areas, provide for sensitive passive amenity uses which have regard to their Annex 1 status.

By including additional wording, as follows:

That any works necessary to facilitate the development of new residential communities on the lands the subject of CS10 SLO1 are permitted on the lands the subject of GI7 SLO2, including any works to do with servicing of lands to facilitate the new residential development, and any works to ensure proper access to the new residential development by way of roads and footpaths etc.

Amendment 4.9 specifically seeks to ensure that there is adequate protection and augmentation of the identified Alluvial Rathcoole Woodlands within the zoning RU, as well as recognising their value as green infrastructure providing for potential linkages to Lugg Woods and Slade Valley. 

The additional wording, which seeks to include works on the lands identified under GI7 SLO2, comprising the servicing of lands, provision of a ‘proper access…by way of roads and footpaths’ to facilitate new development (subject of CS10 SLO1 on an adjacent site) represents a significant and potentially contradictory change in the wording that was put to the public under a Material Amendment, which would change the sentiment behind Specific Local Objective GI7 SLO2. 

It is therefore considered that the proposed additional wording is not minor in nature and is outside the scope of this stage of the plan making process.

CE Recommendation:  Make the Plan with Amendment 4.9 without modification to GI7 SLO2 which reads:

To ensure the adequate protection and augmentation of the identified Alluvial Rathcoole Woodlands within the zoning RU, and in recognising their value as green infrastructure and the potential linkages to Lugg Woods and Slade Valley and other amenity areas, provide for sensitive passive amenity uses which have regard to their Annex 1 status.

Note: It is considered that the proposed modification is not minor in nature and is outside the scope of this stage of the plan making process.