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Dublin City Development Plan 2022–2028 – Volume 1: Written Statement (as varied by Variations Nos. 1–11)
The council's development plan written statement: its strategy, policies, objectives and development standards.
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- Dublin City Development Plan 2022-2028 | Executive Summary 11 Chapter 10: Green Infrastructure and Recreation Dublin is shaped by its major landscape features including: ▪ the Phoenix Park, ▪ the River Liffey, ▪ Dublin Bay, and ▪ the river valleys of the Tolka and Dodder. These features are its green infrastructure. They are complemented by other amenities and green spaces of the city like: ▪ squares, ▪ historic gardens, ▪ the canals, and ▪ waterfront walkways (promenades). All of these features contribute to the city’s high-quality environment and are essential resources for conserving biodiversity (such as plants and animals) and creating a healthy, low-carbon, resilient and connected city. It is crucial to protect and enhance the quality of Dublin City’s natural assets by making sure development is green, sustainable and climate resilient. This is central to making sure the city is attractive as a place to live, work and visit. Green-space networks result in health-related benefits like clean air and better water quality. Particularly in deprived areas, green infrastructure offers possibilities to: ▪ increase social activity, ▪ improve community cohesion, and ▪ lower crime levels. The development plan includes a proactive green infrastructure strategy for the city. It seeks to balance the need for the city to grow and to protect and enhance vulnerable natural assets. As part of a green infrastructure approach, the City Council will seek more urban greening, and healthy placemaking. The overall approach is to: ▪ reduce the impacts of climate change, ▪ improve air and water quality, ▪ provide effective flood management, ▪ encourage walking, cycling and physical activity generally, and ▪ protect and improve biodiversity and ecological resilience.
- Dublin City Development Plan 2022-2028 | Executive Summary 12 Chapter 11: Built Heritage and Archaeology The development plan plays a key role in valuing and safeguarding built heritage and archaeology for future generations. These include features such as historic buildings, Georgian terraces and squares as well as monuments and so on. The plan guides: ▪ decision-making through policies and objectives, and ▪ how to put in place national legislation to conserve, protect and enhance our city’s built heritage and archaeology. The principal things that will enable the City Council to enhance the special characteristics of the city’s built heritage and archaeology are: ▪ the Record of Protected Structures (a list of protected structures such as the Georgian Houses on Merrion Square), ▪ the designation of Architectural Conservation Areas and Areas of Special Planning Control (areas that are formally allocated special status to protect their character and or contribution to the heritage of the city), and ▪ safeguarding the Monuments and Places listed on the statutory Record of Monuments and Places (RMP) as established under Section 12 of the National Monuments (Amendment) Act 1994 (for example the medieval city quarter and the Dublin City Walls). The development plan seeks to put in place the current Dublin City Heritage Plan. It will support the preparation and implementation of the Dublin City Strategic Heritage Plan 2022-2028. Chapter 12: Culture Culture is a universal and fundamental part of the human experience. It plays a central role in defining us as a society and as a city. Cultural and interpretative expression takes many forms like: ▪ music, ▪ dance, ▪ visual arts, ▪ sculpture, ▪ theatre, and ▪ literature. As the capital city, Dublin leads the State in the wealth of culture available to all. Dublin has everything from major cultural institutions and globally recognised festivals to local community spaces and events.
- Dublin City Development Plan 2022-2028 | Executive Summary 13 As Dublin continues to grow, we face the challenge of protecting its arts and cultural assets while allowing sustainable growth. We also need to expand the range of spaces and places available so the pace of cultural growth can match our population growth. To enable new facilities, these challenges must be met in all parts of the city, including: ▪ the regeneration of industrial lands, ▪ the regeneration of older social housing complexes, ▪ new builds in the suburbs, and ▪ gaps in facilities provided within the existing inner and outer city suburbs. All of this must be done while at the same time meeting the density targets within the National Planning Framework and the Regional Spatial and Economic Strategy (RSES). As recognised in the government policy document, Culture 2025, participation in cultural activities can: ▪ contribute to social cohesion, ▪ reduce isolation, and ▪ enrich all our lives. Cultural infrastructure is a key social asset that must be planned for in the same way as our water supply, our transport, our parks and our built heritage. The development plan seeks to address the planning challenges facing the cultural sector. It recognises that the protection and expansion of all types of cultural assets can only be achieved through both public and private investment. This reflects the diverse and wideranging sector that it is. The plan aims to provide for a vibrant and sustainable cultural sector and associated cultural infrastructure to meet the needs of the city. To cater for the future population growth outlined in the National Planning Framework, such growth must be in line with the strategic investment priority of the National Planning Framework. This means keeping culture at the heart of communities. Chapter 13: Strategic Development Regeneration Areas (SDRAs) The development plan designates 19 Strategic Development Regeneration Areas. This is a key part of delivering compact growth. We believe that these areas can deliver significant quantities of homes and employment for the city. For each of the SDRAs, guiding principles are provided. They set out how to make the most of the potential of these areas and develop their character. Key objectives we must achieve are set out regarding: ▪ mix of uses, ▪ street network,
- Dublin City Development Plan 2022-2028 | Executive Summary 14 ▪ linkages and connections within the area and to surrounding areas, for example, new routes and lanes, ▪ providing urban spaces, parks and playgrounds, and ▪ providing retail and recreational facilities. Chapters 14, 15 and 16: Land-Use Zoning, Development Standards and Implementation The zoning (the use of land for a particular purpose) and development standard provisions of this plan support the delivery of the core strategy. In particular, the zoning provisions make sure there is enough land to meet: ▪ population targets, and ▪ the economic role of the city as the nation’s capital. Zoning also makes sure: ▪ there is intensification of development such as housing along public transport corridors, and ▪ that a mixed-use approach is promoted. The mixed-use approach will underpin a compact and sustainable city. The Development Standards reinforce this approach with clear guidance for: ▪ quality residential development, ▪ successful neighbourhoods, and ▪ green infrastructure such as public open space. These are essential parts of the intensification of the city. This intensification relates to compact growth (the better use of available land within built up areas close to public transport and the city centre for development opportunities). It also involves promoting more effective use of land. Chapter 16 sets out: ▪ our city’s key performance indicators (signs of progress), and ▪ how the plan will be put in place and monitored.
- Strategic Context and Vision | Chapter 1 15 Chapter 1: Strategic Context and Vision
- Strategic Context and Vision | Chapter 1 16 1.1 Introduction The Dublin City Development Plan (2022–2028) sets out an integrated, coherent spatial framework to ensure our city is developed in an inclusive way which improves the quality of life for its citizens, and ensures that it is an attractive place to live, work and visit. The plan guides future growth and development, and provides the overall strategy to achieve proper planning and sustainable development, through a range of policies and objectives. The new plan has come at a time of unprecedented challenges for the city arising from the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic, Brexit and climate change. This new development plan creates a platform to facilitate and promote the sustainable, long-term recovery of the city for the benefit of its citizens, the region and the country. It offers an opportunity to respond to these challenges and to build on the success of the significant investment and regeneration seen in the city in recent years. The city has witnessed significant growth and expansion over the past number of years. There have been considerable achievements including the continued build out of Dublin Docklands as a vibrant new commercial and residential hub. Poolbeg West has been designated as a Strategic Development Zone (SDZ) and the adopted planning scheme will facilitate further significant housing and commercial development. Technological University Dublin has largely relocated to the Grangegorman campus and the new national children’s hospital at St. James’s Healthcare Campus is nearing completion, which will in turn greatly enhance the rejuvenation of the south west of the inner city. Extensive new neighbourhoods are being created at Pelletstown, Clongriffin-Belmayne, Ballymun and Cherry Orchard with the support of an updated suite of local area plans. (See Chapter 4: Shape and Structure of the City for further information on recent development patterns in the city). On the public transportation front, the new Luas cross-city line is complete and there are plans for further significant public transport investments including Metro, Bus Connects, Dart + and the Luas extension. An ambitious upgrade of the city’s cycle paths is planned over the next number of years, and works to enhance the city centre public realm are advancing as well as a number of city greening initiatives. Whilst much has been achieved, there remain areas of the city that remain underdeveloped and in need of regeneration. Significant housing delivery in tandem with physical and social infrastructure is required to meet the growing needs of the city to ensure that Dublin is an attractive city to live in and that it retains its competitiveness as capital city. The City Council is committed to promoting compact growth and ensuring the continued consolidation of the city, with sustainable patterns of development and the creation of a dynamic and vibrant city core complemented by well-serviced and integrated neighbourhoods.
- Strategic Context and Vision | Chapter 1 17 It is the objective of the Council to ensure the best use of the city’s land to deliver additional housing, to provide integrated transport including enhanced walking and cycling facilities; to the development of community infrastructure and facilities including cultural and sports amenities; and to long term, sustainable economic growth. 1.2 Strategic Approach – Achieving a Sustainable, Climate Resilient Dublin The development plan sets out the strategic approach to meet the needs and aspirations of citizens of Dublin and the country, not only for the six-year life of the plan, but for the long term. The overarching strategic approach of the plan is to develop a low carbon, sustainable, climate resilient city. The costly implications of not doing so are indisputable and the benefits of a more sustainable city are numerous. A shift in behavioural patterns, effective use of land well served by public transport, use of renewable energy sources and development of sustainable infrastructure is critical for the city to make its contribution to emissions reduction and to increase the resilience of the city’s economy. Dublin has made some good progress in these areas, but the scale of the challenge is such that there is a need for a coherent and strategic response. It is envisaged that by 2050, Dublin will be a zero carbon city with all of its energy coming from renewable energy sources. All of the city’s buildings will have been built or retrofitted to near zero energy building standards, which will provide comfortable, warm, living and working environments. The use of ‘conventionally-fuelled’ cars in urban transport will be halved by 2030 and phased out by 2050 and we will achieve essentially CO2-free city logistics in Dublin by 2030. Strategic Principles In achieving a more sustainable and resilient city, the application of the strategic principles at all levels, from plan making to urban projects and development management, will help to deliver a better quality of life for all. The principles which are set out below constitute interrelated and essential elements of a sustainable approach to future development of the city. These principles are imbued throughout the development plan, cascading from the vision, core strategy, policies, objectives and standards through to implementation. a) Social/Residential – creating a more compact city with a network of sustainable neighbourhoods (aligned with the principle of the 15 minute city) which have a range of facilities and a choice of tenure and house types, promoting social inclusion and integration of all ethnic/minority communities.
- Strategic Context and Vision | Chapter 1 18 b) Economic – continuing to develop Dublin as the engine of the Irish economy and the national gateway at the heart of the Dublin region, with a network of thriving spatial and sectoral clusters providing the strategic focus for employment and innovation. c) Sustainable Movement – helping to build an integrated transport network and encouraging the provision of greater choice of public transport and active travel including walking and cycling. d) Cultural/Built Heritage – making provision for cultural facilities throughout the city and increasing awareness of our cultural and built heritage and promoting safe and active streets through the design of buildings and the public realm. e) Urban Form – creating a connected, legible and liveable city with a distinctive sense of place, based on active streets, quality public spaces and adequate community and civic infrastructure. f) Healthy Placemaking - ensuring quality architecture, urban design and green spaces to provide quality of life and good health and wellbeing for all. g) Innovation - improving the liveability and attractiveness of Dublin as a dynamic, sustainable city that is future ready by embracing innovation and using technology, including Smart City possibilities, to address city challenges and improve quality of life. These components of the over-arching strategic approach and philosophy for the new development plan have informed the vision for the city, which is elaborated on below. Figure 1-1: Strategic Context
- Strategic Context and Vision | Chapter 1 19 1.3 The Vision for Dublin This Dublin City Development Plan arrives at a time of uncertainty as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, Brexit and climate change. The time is opportune however, to create a vision for the city that will not only facilitate growth, but will seek to ensure that this physical, social and economic growth takes place in a coherent and sustainable manner. The city must, collectively through its citizens and civic leaders, develop a shared vision of what sort of city we aspire to, not only for the six-year lifetime of a development plan, but for the next 25 to 30 years. It is only by developing a shared vision for Dublin that we can deliver the Core Strategies of each successive development plan as crucial stepping stones towards the long-term vision. Without a vision which enjoys broad support, short-term, often competing, interests will prevail, ultimately to the detriment of the city. The development plan vision has been informed having regard to the National Strategic Outcomes (NSOs) set out in the NPF, the Regional Strategic Outcomes (RSOs) set out in the RSES and the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Central to the achievement of the vision is the integration of climate action as a cross cutting theme throughout the plan. The vision for the city is that: Within the next 10 years, Dublin will have an established international reputation as one of Europe’s most sustainable, dynamic and resourceful city regions. Dublin, through the shared vision of its citizens and civic leaders, will be a beautiful, compact city, with a distinct character, a vibrant culture and a diverse, smart, green, innovation-based economy. It will be a socially inclusive city of urban neighbourhoods with excellent community and civic infrastructure based on the principles of the 15 minute city, all connected by an exemplary public transport, cycling and walking system and interwoven with a high quality bio-diverse, green space network. In short, the vision is for a capital city where people will seek to live, work, experience, invest and socialise, as a matter of choice. 1.4 Statutory Context This Dublin City Development Plan 2022-2028 has been prepared in accordance with the requirements of the Planning and Development Act, 2000 (as amended). The legislative basis for the preparation and adoption of a development plan is set out in Sections 9-12 of the Act. Section 10(1) provides that the development plan shall set out an overall strategy for the proper planning and sustainable development of the area and shall consist of a written statement and a plan or plans indicating the development objectives for the area (see Appendix 4 for a summary of development plan mandatory requirements).
- Strategic Context and Vision | Chapter 1 20 The Plan is required to be consistent with national and regional planning and development policy including the National Planning Framework and the Regional Spatial and Economic Strategy for the Eastern and Midland Region. The Plan must specifically address the following mandatory requirements: Figure 1-2: Mandatory Requirements to be Addressed by Development Plans The development plan and in particular, the core strategy (see Chapter 2) sets out the spatial framework for the city within the context of the National Development Plan (NDP), National Planning Framework (NPF), the National Climate Action Plan (CAP) 2021, the Regional Spatial and Economic Strategy for the Eastern and Midland Regional Assembly (RSES) 2019, the NTA’s Greater Dublin Area Transport Strategy 2022-2042 and with the Specific Planning Policy Requirements (SPPRs) set out in the relevant Section 28 Ministerial Guidelines.
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