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Old Connaught Local Area Plan 2019 - 2025 Pre-Draft Consultation January 2019 1 Contents: 1. Introduction 3 2. Local Area Plan and Public Consultation 4 3. Movement 5 4. Future Residential Developments 7 5. Social & Community Facilities 8 6. Heritage 9 7. Infrastructural Services 10 8. Recreation & Open Space 11 9. The Next Steps! 12 Appendices Appendix A: Objectives for a Local Area Plan 13 Maps: Map 1. Local Area Plan Location Map 2. Aerial Photograhy Map 3. Extract from County Development Plan 2016 - 2022 Map 4. Constraints Map Director of Planning and Human Resources Mary Henchy Senior Planner Dave Irvine Project Team Anne Marie Woodwolfe, Executive Planner Malachy Hevehan, Chief Technician Michael Hennessy, Senior Executive Technician 2 dlrcoco / Old Connaught LAP / Pre-Draft Consultation Old Connaught 1. Introduction Draft Local Area Plan Old Connaught Draft Local Area Plan Boundary Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council (DLR) intends to Objective A1 To provide for new residential communities in accordance with approved prepare a Local Area Plan for the Old Connaught Area. A Local Area Plans. Local Area Plan (LAP) is a statutory document prepared by the Planning Authority in accordance with the requirements of the Planning and Development Act 2000 (as amended). The LAP will consist of a suite of policies and objectives to guide the development of the area for a period of 6 years. The LAP will set out a land use strategy for the proper planning and sustainable development of the area. It will consist of a written statement and maps indicating objectives for purposes such as zoning of land; residential development Includes Ordnance Survey Ireland data reproduced under Osi Licence number 2015-2016/CCMA/ Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council. Unauthorised reproduction infringes Ordnance Survey. Ireland and Government of Ireland copyright. and its phasing; delivery of commensurate community © Ordnance Survey Ireland, 2018 Planning and Human Resources Department development; heritage and culture; open space and Director M.Henchy recreation; transportation; urban design and environmental AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY protection. Senior Planner: D. Irvine Chief Technician: M. Hevehan Prepared By: A.M. Wood Wolfe Drawn By: A. Ayeni Date: Scale: Source: Esri, DigitalGlobe, GeoEye, Earthstar Geographics, CNES/Airbus DS, May 2018 1:8,000 Map 2 The various and specific requirements of a Local Area Plan PL-18-121 are outlined in more detail in Appendix A. Map 2: Aerial photograph of Old Connaught LAP Lands Local Area Plan Boundary and Zoning Core Strategy Old Connaught is located 20kms south of Dublin City Centre The Core Strategy contained in the current County and approximately 2.5kms southwest of Shankill village. Bray Development Plan anticipates the zoned residential lands in Town Centre lies less than 2kms to the southeast. the LAP delivering, on a phased basis and over a period of time, around 2000 residential units. Delivering this quantum The Plan area is bounded to the north by Allies River Road; to of housing development into an environment that was, the west by Ferndale Road; to the east by the M11 motorway heretofore, fundamentally greenfield and agricultural will corridor and to the south by the steep-sided County Brook prove both challenging and transformational. river valley that defines the administrative boundary between the Counties of DLR and Wicklow. The LAP lands extend in total to 182 hectares. In the current 2016-2022 DLR County Development Plan some 62 hectares of the LAP area are zoned objective ’A1’ – “To provide for new residential development in accordance with approved local area plans”; 109 hectares are zoned objective ’GB’ “To protect and enhance the open nature of lands between urban areas” with the residual 11 hectares zoned objective ‘F’ – “To preserve and provide for open space and recreational amenities”.DUBLIN CITY Milltown Trimleston Belfield Blackrock Windy Arbour Dun Laoghaire Rathfarnham N31 Mount Merrion Churchtown Goatstown Stillorgan Monkstown Nutgrove Sandycove Dundrum SOUTH Kilmacud DUBLIN Ballinteer Dalkey Deans Grange Kill of N31 the Grange Sallynoggin Marley Leopardstown Cornelscourt Killiney Foxrock M50 Sandyford N11 R118 M50 Cabinteely Rockbrook Stepaside Carrickmines Map 3: Extract from Map 14 of the 2016 - 2022 Dún Laoghaire- Kilmashogue Ballyedmonduff Rathdown County Development Plan Cherrywood Loughlinstown Tiknock Tibradden Glenamuck Shankill Kiltiernan Rathmichael M11 Ballybrack Johnstown Glencullen Glendoo Boranaraltry Old Connaught Bray WICKLOW Fassaroe Map 1: Site OldLocation Connaught Draft of Old Connaught LAP Lands Note: Full size maps available at the back of this document Other Roads Local Area Plan Boundary County Boundary LUAS (Existing) M50 / M11 DART & Rail dlrcoco / Old Connaught LAP / Pre-Draft Consultation 3 National Primary Roads PL-18-320 Old Connaught Local Area Plan OLD CONNAUGHT DRAFT LOCAL AREA PLAN 0 1,000 2,000 4,000 Metres Planning and Human Senior Planner: D. Irvine Chief Technician: M. Hevehan Resources Department Prepared By: A. M. Wood Wolfe Drawn By: A. Ayeni Includes Ordnance Survey Ireland data reproduced under OSi Licence number 2015-2016/CCMA/ Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council. M. Henchy Date: Scale: Unauthorised reproduction infringes Ordnance Survey Ireland Map 1 and Government of Ireland copyright. © - Ordnance Survey Ireland, 2018 Director November 2018 1:75,000 2. Local Area Plan and Public the recently published Draft Eastern and Midlands Region Spatial and Economic Strategy (RSES), will be delivered. Consultation The challenge will be for the LAP to balance and blend the The LAP preparation process will involve three stages of various competing objectives at play within the LAP to realise public consultation: Pre-Draft stage, Draft Plan stage and, an optimum solution that both respects the strengths and potentially, Proposed Amendments stage (see Diagram 1). As undoubted character of the area yet facilitates residential part of the first stage the Planning Authority is now engaging development of scale as demanded by higher order statutory in Pre-Draft consultation with the general public and a wide Strategies and Plans. range of interest groups. How to make a submission at the Pre-Draft This Issues Paper is intended to give a broad overview of the main development and challenges facing the Old Connaught consultation stage area and to stimulate public debate on what matters should You are invited to submit your views on what the Draft be considered in the new LAP. The issues listed are by no LAP should contain and what issues it should address. All means exhaustive and other matters can be raised by the submissions / observations should state your name, address public and other interested parties. and where applicable, the organisation / body represented, and should be made in the following ways: Why get involved? By post to: Public consultation is an important aspect of any plan-making Senior Executive Officer, process in order to address issues and concerns which relate Planning and Human Resources Department, to the LAP area, and to ensure that the final LAP acknowledges Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council, community aspirations and concerns. County Hall, Marine Road, Dún Laoghaire, Co. Dublin A96K6C9 It is important to stress at the outset, however, that the LAP is not a ‘blank canvas’ but is the vehicle through which the OR residential supply imperatives, copper-fastened in both the Core Strategy of the current County Development Plan and Online: On the Council’s website under ‘dlr consultations’ Submissions for the Pre-Draft consultation phase must be made within the display period, which runs from 23rd January 2019 to 26th February 2019 Statutory Timeframes – Planning and Development Act, 2000, Sections 18, 19 & 20 Two Information Sessions for members of the public will be held in St. Gerard’s School, Thornhill Road, Old Connaught on Monday 18th February 2019 from 3.00pm - 8.00pm and Pre Draft LAP Public Consultation Thursday 21st February 2019 from 3.00pm - 8.00pm. What happens next? Draft Local Area Plan - Public Consultation/Display Period - 6 weeks Following on from the Pre-Draft Public Consultation, a Draft Local Area Plan will be prepared, taking into consideration any Preparation of Chief Executive’s Report - 6 weeks submissions made during the Pre-Draft consultation. Once the Draft Local Area Plan has been prepared, the statutory Local Area Plan process and timelines as set out in Figure 1, Elected Members Make/Amend/Revoke LAP - 6 weeks will commence. (If required) Publish Notice of Proposed Variation or Modification - 3 weeks Public Consultation/ Display of Material Amendments (if any) -4 weeks Preparation of Chief Executive’s Report - 4 weeks Elected Members Make/Amend/Revoke LAP – 6 weeks LAP shall have effect 4 weeks from the day it is made Figure 1: Local Area Plan Process Photo 1: Photo of Public Consultation 4 dlrcoco / Old Connaught LAP / Pre-Draft Consultation 3. Movement Transport Infrastructure Ireland’s (TII) ‘M11/N11 Corridor Study Needs Assessment Report’ undertaken in 2017 While the LAP area is actually located immediately proximate assessed both the future needs of the M11/N11 National to the M11 - a major transport corridor of Local, Regional and Road corridor between Junction 4 (M50/M11) and Junction National importance – not unexpectedly the Plan area itself, 14 (Coyne’s Cross), and the necessary improvements to the given its wholly undeveloped nature, is currently very poorly Regional and Local road