COMHAIRLE CONTAE ÁTHA CLIATH THEAS
SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF CLONDALKIN, NEWCASTLE, RATHCOOLE, SAGGART AND BRITTAS AREA COMMITTEE

Wednesday, May 17, 2023

QUESTION NO.7

QUESTION: Councillor F. Timmons

To ask the Chief executive to issue a detailed report into the ongoing development project at the former golf course to ensure that it adheres to the Exempted Development decision and takes into account all the potential impact on neighbouring properties, particularly the Fairgreen Estate and to ask planning to detail how this wont lead to flooding risk at Fairgreen Estate?

REPLY:

The only exempted development decision we have recently made relating to a golf course has been in the rural area - Butter Mountain Golf Club, Gortlum, Brittas, Co. Dublin (Ref ED23/0010) for the "localised re-contouring of the existing golf course surface including alterations to the layout of the fourth (4th) and sixth (6th) greens and associated bunkers, creating two new grass-based tee box accesses/pathways and tree planting for screening purposes". I think the elected member is referring to the Fairgreen Estate in Saggart which is at some remove from this golf course Exempted Development Section 5 Declaration. In general terms, exempted development applications turn on a series of legislative rules rather than policy and as such applications under exempted development are quite different to planning applications. Flooding-risk considerations along with many other policy considerations are not taken into account in Exempted Development decisions.