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Fingal Development Plan 2023–2029 – Written Statement (Consolidated)
The council's development plan written statement: its strategy, policies, objectives and development standards.
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- EMPlOyMENT AND ECONOMy 301FINGAL DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2023-2029
- EMPlOyMENT AND ECONOMy 302FINGAL DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2023-2029 Neighbourhood Centres, Local Centres-Small Towns And Villages Level 4 of the Fingal Retail Hierarchy includes a number of important small towns, urban village centres, and local centres. These are dispersed throughout the County including urban centres such as Rush, Lusk, Donabate, Blanchardstown Village, Mulhuddart, Clonsilla, Castleknock, and Ongar in the west of the County, Balrothery to the north, and Howth, Portmarnock, Baldoyle and Sutton to the east. A complete list of Level 4 centres is included in the Fingal Retail Hierarchy in Table 7.2 above. Objective EEO96 – Level 4 Centres Ensure the development of Level 4 Centres as sustainable, vibrant and prosperous Small Towns, Village Centres and Local Centres performing at a level within the Fingal Retail Hierarchy to meet the retailing needs of immediate local populations and catchment populations. Objective EEO97 – Retail Provision in Level 4 Centres Where a gap in the retail provision of a Level 4 Centre is identified and established, facilitate appropriately scaled improvements to the retail offer and function in Level 4 Centres and ensure their sustainable development by enhancing the existing Centre for each and directing new retail opportunities into the Centres. Objective EEO98 – Ensure Sufficient Retail Offer in Level 4 Towns and Centres Ensure that the Level 4 Small Towns, Village Centres and Local Centres have a retail offer that is sufficient in terms of scale, type, and range without adversely impacting on or diverting trade from the higher order retailing locations. Corner Shops/Small Villages Level 5 of the Fingal Retail Hierarchy includes a range of lower-performing local centres and small groupings of local shops in urban areas, and the rural villages. In similarity with Level 4 Centres, the Level 5 Centres are by their nature widely represented through the County and include the Rural Villages of Balscadden, Ballymadun, Naul, Garristown, Oldtown, Ballyboghil, Rowlestown, Coolquay, and Rivermeade. A complete list of Level 5 Centres is included in the Fingal Retail Hierarchy in Table 7.2 above. Objective EEO99 – Level 5 Centres Ensure the development of Level 5 Centres as sustainable, vibrant and prosperous Local Shops and Small Villages performing at a level within the Fingal Retail Hierarchy to meet the retailing needs of immediate local populations and catchment populations.
- EMPlOyMENT AND ECONOMy 303FINGAL DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2023-2029 Objective EEO100 – Retail Provision in Level 5 Centres Where a gap in the retail provision of a Level 5 Centre is identified and established, facilitate appropriately scaled improvements to the retail offer and function of Level 5 Centres and ensure their sustainable development by enhancing the existing Centre for each and directing new retail opportunities into the Centres. Objective EEO101 – Retail Offer in Level 5 Local Shops and Small Villages Ensure that the Level 5 Local Shops and Small Villages have a retail offer that is sufficient in terms of scale, type, and range without adversely impacting on or diverting trade from the higher order retailing locations. Objective EEO102 – Ensure retailing remains as the Core Function of Centres Maintain and strengthen the vitality, viability and regeneration of the County’s Major Town, Town, Local and Village Centres by providing for civic, leisure, cultural and tourism attractions while ensuring that retailing remains a core function of these centres. Objective EEO103 – Use of Vacant Floor Space and Refurbishment and Replacement of Obsolete Units Promote the use of vacant floor space in our major town centres, town centres, local centres and villages and support proposals for refurbishment and replacement of obsolete buildings/units within these centres. Non-Retail Uses, Fast Food Outlets, Takeaways, Off Licences and Betting Offices In order to protect and enhance the vitality and viability of the County’s urban and rural centres, the occurrence of non-retail uses (such as amusement centres and arcades), fast food outlets, off licences and betting offices needs to monitored. An over-supply or dominance of these types of uses within the main streets, shopping centres and local centres of Fingal’s centres can have negative impacts on the amenities of these centres and their ability to perform their retailing functions in accordance with their classification in the Fingal Retail Hierarchy. Objective EEO104 – Non-Retail Uses Control the provision of non-retail uses, especially at ground floor level, in the main streets of towns and villages, shopping centres and local centres to ensure that injury is not caused to the amenities of these streets and centres through the loss of retail opportunities. Objective EEO105 – Prevent Over-Supply of Specific Uses / Outlets Prevent an over-supply or dominance of fast food outlets, takeaways, off licences, adult shops, gaming arcades and betting offices in the main streets of towns and villages, shopping centres and local centres to ensure that injury is not caused to the amenities of these streets and centres through the loss of retail opportunities.
- EMPlOyMENT AND ECONOMy 304FINGAL DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2023-2029 Retail Warehousing and Retail Parks There is considerable development of retail warehousing and high technology zoned lands with 78.5% and 48.7% of the zoned land developed as of Q2 2020. In the case of retail warehousing there are just 6 remaining hectares of zoned land capacity. In the absence of an up-to-date retail strategy, it is considered appropriate that the existing Retail Warehousing zonings remain and that a cautionary approach is taken in assessing proposals for new retail warehousing and/ or retail parks, and that a retail impact assessment should accompany any such proposal. Objective EEO106 – Retail Warehousing and Retail Parks Direct demand for new retail warehousing and/ or retail parks into the Major Town Centre ‘MC’ zoned lands of the Level 2 higher order retailing locations and into the Retail Warehousing ‘RW’ zoning, preferably, in the first instance, to consolidate the existing clusters of retail warehouses and/ or retail parks. Objective EEO107 – Applications for New Retail Warehousing and Retail Parks Ensure that applications for new retail warehousing and/ or retail parks are consistent with the requirements of the Guidelines for Planning Authorities: Retail Planning, including, where appropriate, the application of the Sequential Approach, and requirements for retail impact assessments and transport impact assessments for retail developments which due to their scale and/ or location may impact on the vitality and viability of existing retail parks.
- EMPlOyMENT AND ECONOMy 305FINGAL DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2023-2029 Blanchardstown Core Retail Area
- EMPlOyMENT AND ECONOMy 306FINGAL DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2023-2029 Swords Core Retail Area
- EMPlOyMENT AND ECONOMy 307FINGAL DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2023-2029 Balbriggan Core Retail Area
- EMPlOyMENT AND ECONOMy 308FINGAL DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2023-2029 Skerries Retail Core Area
- EMPlOyMENT AND ECONOMy 309FINGAL DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2023-2029 Malahide Core Retail Area
- EMPlOyMENT AND ECONOMy 310FINGAL DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2023-2029 Charlestown Core Retail Area
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