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Draft County Donegal Development Plan 2018-2024 Draft County Donegal Development Plan 2018-2024 Part A: The Strategic Contents Part B: Objectives and Policies of the Plan May 2017 Draft County Donegal Development Plan 2018-2024 Contents Part A: The Strategic Plan Chapter 1 Introduction and Vision 1 Chapter 2 Core Strategy 9 Chapter 3 Towns and Villages 25 Appendix 1 Legal, Interpretation and Policy Context 33 Appendix 2 Section 28 Statement in relation to the Draft County 39 Donegal Development Plan 2018-2024 Part B: Objectives and Policies of the Plan Chapter 4 Economic Development 43 4.1 General Economic Development 43 4.2 County Retail Strategy 2018-2024 53 Chapter 5 Infrastructure 61 5.1 Transportation 61 5.2 Water and Environmental Services 70 5.3 Telecommunications 79 5.4 Flooding 83 Chapter 6 Housing 88 6.1 Housing Strategy 88 6.2 Urban Housing 93 6.3 Rural Housing 101 Chapter 7 The Natural and Built Heritage 111 7.1 Natural Heritage 112 7.2 Built Heritage 118 7.3 Archaeological Heritage 122 Chapter 8 Natural Resource Development 124 8.1 Extractive Industry and Geology 124 8.2 Energy 127 Chapter 9 Tourism 134 Chapter 10 The Marine Resource and Coastal Management 145 Chapter 11 Community, Culture and the Gaeltacht 152 Appendix 3 Development Guidelines and Technical Standards 161 Appendix 4 Building a House in Rural Donegal - A Location, Siting 225 and Design Guide Page i Draft County Donegal Development Plan 2018-2024 Part C Objectives and Policies of the Towns Separate Document Part D Environmental Report Separate Document List of Maps Map 2.1: Core Strategy Map Map 5.1.1: Ten-T Network Map 5.1.2: Strategic Transport Network Map 5.1.3: Roads to which T-P-4 applies Map 5.1.4: N14 Letterkenny to Lifford (and A5 via Strabane) Map 5.1.5: N15/N13 Ballybofey/Stranorlar Map 5.1.6: N56 Letterkenny Relief Road Map 5.1.7: N15 Lifford to Ballybofey-Stranorlar Map 5.1.8: N56 Mountcharles to Inver Map 5.1.9: N56 An Clochán Liath (Dungloe) to Glenties Map 5.1.10: N56 Inver to Killybegs Map 5.1.11: N56 Inver to Killybegs Buncrana Inner and Outer relief Roads Map 5.1.12: Muff bypass Map 5.1.13: Donegal Airport Safeguarding Map 5.3.1: Strategic infrastructure Corridors Map 5.3.2: Major ICT Wireless Network (Line of Sight) Map 6.2.1: Rural Area Types Map 7.1.1: Scenic Amenity Map: 8.2.1: Wind Energy Map: 9.1: Tourism Map 10.1: Marine Map 11.1: Community, Culture and the Gaeltacht Map 01.Appendix 3: Public Rights of Way Page ii Draft County Donegal Development Plan 2018-2024 List of Figures Figure 1.1: County Donegal and its regional context Figure 1.2: The relationship between the County Development Plan and the North West City Region Figure 1.3: Population change (%) in County Donegal, 1991 to 2016 by Electoral Division (ED); Figure 1.4: Population change in County Donegal over the period 2006-2016 Figure 1.5 Cross Border Employment Community Flows: ROI Car Trips crossing border to NI (AM peak) Figure 1.6 Cross Border Employment Community Flows: NI Car Trips crossing border to ROI (AM peak) Figure 2.1: The 2 Phased Growth Strategy Figure 2.2: The Settlement Structure Figure 2.3: The Settlement Structure Figure 3.1: Spatial Distribution of ‘Strategic Towns.’ Figure 01 Appendix 1: Development Plan linkages with other Plans Figure 4.1.1: Factors of Competitiveness Figure 5.4.1: Example - Flood Zone Areas A, B and C Figure 6.3.1: Dwellings per Thousand of the Population by County, Q2 2016 Figure 9.1: Donegal Overseas Visitors (000’s) Figure 9.2: Donegal Domestic Visitors (000’s) Figure 9.3: Donegal Key Tourism Attractions Visitor Numbers 2016 Figure 9.4: Wild Atlantic Way Counties Overseas Visitors (2015) Figure 01 Appendix 3: Entrance Details For Residential Properties Figure 02 Appendix 3: Measurement for visibility Splays [X & Y distances] Figure 03 Appendix 3: Alternative visibility Splay for urban regional and local roads where overtaking is prohibited Page iii Draft County Donegal Development Plan 2018-2024 List of tables Table 1.1: Components of Population Change in County Donegal (2006, 2011, 2016) Table 1.2: Total Traffic Movement per week and day per route-DRD 2015 Telemetric Data Table 2.1: Population Targets Table 2.2: Targeted Distribution of Growth for Housing Land Supply Table 2.3: The Towns of the Settlement Structure Table 2.4: Strategic Status of Water Services Across Layers 1 & 2A Table 2.5: Population Projections Table 2.6: The Core Strategy Table Table 2.7: Planned Investment in Water Services contained in the Irish Water Capital Investment Plan 2017-2021 Table 3.1: The ‘Strategic Towns’ Performing ‘Special Economic Functions.’ Table 3.2: The Reasons for Identification of ‘Strategic Towns’, Performing ‘Special Economic Functions.’ Table 01 Appendix 1: Population Increase set out in RPG’s 2010 (to 2016 and 2022) Table 4.2.1: Retail types Table 5.1: Proposed transportation improvement projects as identified on Maps Table 5.2.1: Requirements for waste water treatment for multiple developments Table 5.4.1: Classification of Vulnerability for different types of development taken from Table 3.1 of The Planning System and Flood Risk Management - Guidelines for Planning Authorities (DoEHLG, 2009) Table 5.4.2: Matrix of Vulnerability versus flood zone as taken from Table 3.1 of The Planning System and Flood Risk Management - Guidelines for Planning Authorities (DoEHLG, 2009) Table 10.1: Coastal Management Strategies Table 01 Appendix 3: Roadside Boundaries in Rural Areas Table 02 Appendix 3: Internal Residential/Industrial Roads Table 03 Appendix 3: Vision Lines at accesses to Non-National Rural Roads, outside 60kph speed limit zone Table 04 Appendix 3: Stopping Sight Distances for Urban Areas within 60kph speed limit zone (SSD). Reduced SSD standards for application within cities, towns and villages. Reduced forward visibility increases driver caution and reduces vehicle speeds. Table 05 Appendix 3: Stopping Sight Distances for Urban Areas within 60kph speed limit zone (SSD). Reduced SSD standards for application within cities, towns and villages. Reduced forward visibility increases driver caution and reduces vehicle speeds. Table 06 Appendix 3: Stopping Sight Distances Table 06 Appendix 3: Car Parking Standards Table 07 Appendix 3: Dimensions of Loading and Parking Bays Table 08 Appendix 3: National Monuments in State Ownership or Guardianship by OPW Page iv Draft County Donegal Development Plan 2018-2024 Table 09 Appendix 3: Historic Graveyards (in guardianship of Donegal County Council) Table 10 Appendix 3: Record of Protected Structures in the Glenties Municipal District Table 11 Appendix 3: Record of Protected Structures in the Inishowen Municipal District Table 12 Appendix 3: Record of Protected Structures in the Letterkenny Municipal District Table 13 Appendix 3: Record of Protected Structures in the Stranorlar Municipal District Table 14 Appendix 3: Record of Protected Structures in the Donegal Municipal District Table 15 Appendix 3: Record of Protected Structures in Buncrana Table 16 Appendix 3: Record of Protected Structures in Bundoran Table 17 Appendix 3: Record of Protected Structures in Letterkenny Table 18 Appendix 3: Public Rights of Way Page v Draft County Donegal Development Plan 2018-2024 PART A The Strategic Plan Draft County Donegal Development Plan 2018-2024 Chapter 1 Introduction and Vision 1.1 Introduction and Vision The County Donegal Development Plan is the principal statutory land use plan for the County and it sets out a strategic vision for the future growth and development of the County over the 6 year life of the Plan (to 2024) and beyond to a 20 year timeframe (to 2038). This spatially-based strategic and framework seeks to manage and coordinate change in landuse in the County setting out a clear view ahead in development terms together with clear priorities to drive growth. This County Development Plan (CDP) sets out an ambitious vision to 2038 that is to be a catalyst for positive growth and economic development in County Donegal where the aim for the County is to target population growth of approximately 173,000 people by 2024 and to consequently reach upwards of 200,000 people by 2038. It acknowledges the wider social, economic and environmental trends within which growth is to occur but it is purposefully focussed on the possibilities and opportunities for the county arising from its position as part of a much broader cohesive socio- economic and geographical area. Within the wider context of the region, there are firmly established partnerships that are to be developed further in order to support a coordinated approach to deliver on regional priorities that are critical to facilitate the priorities of County Donegal. Given the diversity and geographical extent of County Donegal (Figure 1.1 refers), opportunities for regional cooperation are being harnessed across all of the county’s borders through (i) the area of the Northern and Western Regional Assembly (NWRA) comprising the counties of Donegal, Monaghan, Cavan, Leitrim, Sligo, Mayo, Roscommon and Galway and; (ii) in the context of the North West City Region comprising all of Donegal County Council (DCC) and Derry City & Strabane District Council (DCSDC) areas, with Letterkenny and the City of Derry-Londonderry as its linked metropolitan areas. This area has been identified as the North West City Region and the Initiative has secured the establishment of a local government partnership between DCC and DCSDC and has been endorsed by both local authorities and, signficantly, by both of the respective national governments. Figure 1.1: County Donegal and its regional context Part A: The Strategic Plan Chapter 1: Introduction and Vision Page 1 Draft County Donegal Development Plan 2018-2024 Capacity in the Region is evidenced through both the regional response to consultation on the National Planning Framework coordinated through NWRA and the joint work of DCC and DCSDC which is underpinned by the establishment of the North West Strategic Growth Partnership.
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