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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF CLONDALKIN AREA COMMITTEE

Wednesday, September 21, 2022

QUESTION NO.19

QUESTION: Councillor Eoin Ó Broin

To ask the Chief Executive for a timeframe for the creation of the Clondalkin Local Area Plan agreed as part of the SDCC County Development Plan 2022 - 2028?

REPLY:

The recently adopted County Development Plan provided for a local area plan for Clondalkin as set out in QDP14 Objective 3:

‘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
• Local Transport Plan.’

The publication of a draft plan has been targeted for early Q4 of 2023. Early background research has commenced as part of the plan making process, including an initial health audit of the town.  The need for the procurement of relevant expertise to meet the requirements of the objective is being examined and will be progressed in 2022 and into 2023. As indicated in the Local Area Plans Guidelines published by the Department, the pre-draft stage of a LAP, before a draft plan is published, is approximately one year. This allows time for meaningful engagement with the public and other stakeholders to explore the critical issues to be addressed in the plan.  An initial update on the early stages of the plan preparation is on the agenda for the September SPC meeting.