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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

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

Wednesday, April 16, 2025

QUESTION NO. 12

QUESTION: Councillor E. Ó Broin

To ask the Chief Executive for an update on progress with the Clondalkin Local Area Plan?

REPLY:

A third round of public consultation focusing on issues around transport was completed in January 2025. The non statutory consultation phases are now finished and the next consultation will be a statutory process.
Since February the planning team have been working with the consultants on advancing the local transport plan, the conservation plan, the character statements for the three ACAs in Clondalkin, green infrastructure and an urban design strategy. Each of these different pieces of work are being brought together to produce a draft LAP type document in parallel with the SEA, AA and Strategic Flood Risk Assessment (SFRA).

The Implementation Plan for the 2024 Planning Act indicates that Part 3, Plans, Policies and Related Matters is due to commence by mid-2025. However, the Implementation Plan indicates that ‘This may be subject to change depending on the timeframes for draft local authority development plans or draft local area plans.’

There is still a lack of clarity as to whether a LAP remains an option as transitional arrangements under the new Act remain unclear. It is not an option under the new Act until such time as the next Development Plan is adopted. In the absence of certainty on the transitional arrangements, it is currently proposed to bring the plan as a Variation to the current Development Plan to bring the work to date into a statutory plan.

Subject to further clarity on transitional arrangements and to any impacts from a revised NPF, it is envisaged that a draft plan (as a Variation or otherwise) will be brought before the members in June or July 2025.