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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

Monday, October 10, 2022

QUESTION NO. 19

QUESTION: Councillor Eoin Ó Broin

To ask the Chief Executive for a report on when work to find all the rights of way in the county might begin?

REPLY:

The adopted Development Plan includes an objective relating to the identification of existing public rights of way as follows:

EDE23 Objective 2:

To identify, in a logical and sequenced way, existing public rights of way in relevant areas of the County and to investigate the creation of new public rights of way by taking the following steps within two years of adoption of the Plan:

• Identify and map those areas within the County which have the potential to give access to mountain, lakeshore, riverbank or other places of natural beauty or recreational utility;
• Examine the identified areas for existing access routes;
• Investigate whether existing access routes are public rights of way and where there is an understanding that a public right of way may exist, undertake the necessary steps for consultation set out in the Planning Acts;
• Once verified, map and identify those public rights of way in the Development Plan;
• Where public rights of way do not exist and access would be appropriate, consider using public rights of way agreements available under section 206 of the Planning and Development Acts;
• Where public rights of way agreements are not possible, consider the use of compulsory purchase orders under section 207 of the Planning and Development'

As indicated in the objective, the identification of public rights of way will be included as one of a list of projects for inclusion in the work programme up to 2024.