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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF LUCAN / PALMERSTOWN / NORTH CLONDALKIN AREA COMMITTEE

Tuesday, March 25, 2025

QUESTION NO.16

QUESTION: Councillor C. Brady

To ask the manager whether a best practice communications process, guideline, or checklist exists for developers to promote effective communication with residents during construction phases? If not, whether this would be considered and developed from lessons learned via developments across the county.

REPLY:

In relation to larger developments being built-out close to established residential areas, the Planning Authority at times impose a condition requiring the appointment of a designated community liaison contact on behalf of a developer. For proposals that exceed 500 dwellings, this matter is usually covered off in the Environmental Impact Assessment Report. It would only be considered a proportionate condition whether a development is of scale. An example of a condition we've imposed recently in relation to a development in Adamstown reads as follows:

Construction Consultation and Local Liaison 

(a) Prior to the commencement of development, the applicant/owner shall submit the following to the Planning Authority. 

(i) the names, job functions and phone numbers (both fixed line and mobile numbers) of all key personnel for the construction of the development as approved. Subsequently all changes in these personnel or particulars in the course of construction must also be notified to the Council as soon as they occur. 

(b) The applicant/owner or developer shall provide occupiers of noise sensitive properties within 100 metres of agreed construction access points to the development as approved with appropriate contact details which may be used in the event that any such person wishes to inform the operator of any incident that could give rise to a disruptive aspect of construction activity, or otherwise to make an observation in respect of an aspect of construction activity. 

(c) A public notice shall be erected and maintained at the agreed construction access points. This notice shall contain the name of the operating company and contact details, including out of hours contact, which may be used in the event that any person wishes to contact the operator in respect of any disruptive aspect of construction activity. 

REASON: In the interests of amenity, public health and safety, the avoidance of unnecessary disruptive aspect of construction activity and the proper planning and sustainable development of the area