Development Plans

DLRCC County Development Plan 2016 – 2022

DLRCC County Development Plan 2016 – 2022
 
Under the Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown County Development Plan 2016 – 2022 the property is zoned:
 
Objective A (Yellow)- “To protect and-or improve residential amenity”
 
Development Permitted – Objective A
 
Assisted Living Accommodation, Open Space, Public Services, Residential, Residential Institution, Travellers Accommodation. 
Development Open for Consideration – Objective A 
Allotments, Bring Banks/Bring Centres, Carpark, Caravan Park-Holiday, Caravan Park-Residential, Cemetery, Community Facility, Childcare Service, Cultural Use, Doctor/Dentist etc., Education, Embassy, Enterprise Centre, Funeral Home, Garden Centre/Plant Nursery, Guest House, Health 
Centre / Healthcare Facility, Home Based Economic Activities, Hotel/Motel, Household Fuel Depot, Industry-Light, Part Off-License, Office Based Industry(a) , Offices less than 200sq.m.(b) , Petrol Station, Place of Public Worship, Public House, Restaurant, Service Garage, Shop Neighbourhood, Sports Facility, Tea Room/Café, Veterinary Surgery.
(a): less than 200sq.m. 
(b): Where the use will not have adverse effects on the ‘A’ zoning objective, ‘to protect and/or improve residential amenity’.
 
Other Objectives
 
“To protect and/or provide for Institutional Use in open land.”
 
The Development Plan States:
 
“Where no demand for an alternative institutional use is evident or foreseen, the Council may permit alternative uses subject to the area’s zoning objectives and the open character of the lands being retained. There are still a number of large institutions in the established suburbs of the County which may be subject to redevelopment pressures in the coming years. 
 
The principal aims of any eventual redevelopment of these lands will be to achieve a sustainable amount of development while ensuring the essential setting of the lands and the integrity of the main buildings are retained. In order to promote a high standard of development a comprehensive masterplan should accompany a planning application for institutional sites. Such a masterplan must adequately take account of the built heritage and natural assets of a site and established recreational use patterns. Public access to all or some of the lands may be required.” 
 
“Every planning application lodged on institutional lands shall clearly demonstrate how they conform with the agreed masterplan for the overall site. Should any proposed development deviate from the agreed masterplan then a revised masterplan shall be agreed with the Planning Authority. A minimum open space provision of 25% of the total site area (or a population-based provision in accordance with Section 8.2.8.2 whichever is the greater) will be required on Institutional Lands. This provision must be sufficient to maintain the open character of the site – with development proposals built around existing features and layout, particularly by reference to retention of trees, boundary walls and other features as considered necessary by the Council.”
 
“In addition to the provision of adequate open space, on Institutional Lands where existing school uses will be retained, any proposed residential development shall have regard to the future needs of the school and allow sufficient space to be retained adjacent to the school for possible future school expansion/ redevelopment.”
 
Local Objectives
 
A specific local objective affects the property:
• “To implement and develop the lands in Goatstown in accordance with the Goatstown LAP.”
 
In addition, the lands are adjacent to, but not directly impacted by, a reservation for the Dublin Eastern Bypass reservation corridor:
 
• “To promote potential additional future uses of the Dublin Eastern Bypass reservation corridor, including a greenway-cycleway, a pedestrian walkway, biodiversity projects, recreational opportunities inclusive of playing pitches and public transport provision such as Bus Rapid Transit services, pending a decision from the National Roads Authority-Central Government in relation to the future status of the Bypass. Any potential additional future short-term uses of the reservation corridor will be subject to a joint feasibility study to be undertaken by the NRA and NTA.”
 
The Dublin Eastern Bypass has no impact on the lands proposed for partnership.
 
Residential Development Density 
 
Significant parts of the existing built-up area of DLRCC are readily accessible to public transport corridors – QBCs, Luas, DART – “In these circumstances Government guidance is to provide densities at higher than 50 dwellings per hectare.”
 
Many of the DLRCC County Development Plan 2016-2021 objectives in relation to density and development management  have been overtaken by mandatory guidelines issued to local authorities by the then Department of Housing Planning & Local Government, in 2018, focussed on increasing residential development densities and heights in appropriate locations: 
  • Sustainable Urban Housing: Design Standards for New Apartments – Guidelines for Planning Authorities (March 2018)
  • Urban Development and Building Heights Guidelines for Planning Authorities (December 2018)