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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

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

Wednesday, February 19, 2025

MOTION NO. 18

MOTION: Councillor F. Timmons

That this Area Committee calls on SDCC for clarity around ''NCBH21 SLO 1: To protect and maintain the remaining old stone walls of Clondalkin" and what walls it covers and calls on SDCC to ensure that the walls on Monastery Road, Boot Rood, ARAS, Watery Lane and Floraville are included as part of this to ensure that we also meet EDE20 Objective 2: To support the development of local tourist and heritage trails and EDE11 Objective 4: To protect the historic village core of Clondalkin, recognising the role it has in placemaking and the attractiveness of the town to retailing and other functions. A list of walls of Clondalkin was provided to SDCC at time of Motion at CDP.

REPORT:

In delivering on QDP14 Objective 3 of the County Development Plan work is underway on the preparation of the Clondalkin local area plan (LAP). That objective included for the local area plan to include a conservation plan and in that regard conservation consultants have been employed by the Council. Molloy Associates are in the process of working with the LAP team in preparing a Conservation Plan for Clondalkin which will inform the objectives of the LAP. They are also drafting character statements for each of the ACAs in Clondalkin.

Following the second round of LAP public consultations in February to March 2024, at the request of local interests, a walkabout was held by Molloy consultants with those interested in the heritage of the village and its environs. This local knowledge augmented the research already gathered by the consultants, who had also been made aware by the LAP team of the list of walls put forward as a motion to the CDP. The Conservation Plan will include for the protection of old stone walls which have been identified as important to the heritage of the village, and recommendations will be brought forward through appropriate objectives into the local area plan. Having these more focused objectives in the LAP will ensure that there is a clear policy framework, tailored to the walls in Clondalkin, to assist in planning application assessments.