Kildare County Development Plan 2023–2029 — Chapter 2: Core Strategy and Settlement Strategy

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   Type of employment use Ha Industry and Warehousing 451.721 Integrated Leisure 132.366 Light Industry, Office Park & Warehousing 1.429 Light Industry and Warehousing 26.339 Mixed Use 17.715 Office, Enterprise & Employment 73.836 Research and Technology 72.272 Total 1097.955 Table 2.9 - Quantum of undeveloped lands in County Kildare The aim for this Plan is to co-locate employment centres near homes and communities, thereby reducing the need for unsustainable commuting patterns into, within or outside of the county. This can and will be achieved in a number of ways including: (i) Zoning lands for employment type uses throughout the County through the Local Area Plan process. (ii) Continuing to work with key stakeholders to identify ways of attracting investors and employers to locate in Kildare in partnership with the Kildare Local Enterprise Office and the IDA. (iii) Recognise the highly skilled labour force in situ in the county and to continue to work in partnership with key educational institutions such as NUI Maynooth and the KWETB to further improve the county’s labour force. (iv) Developing a co-working hub strategy for the County, which reduces the need for commuting and creates a dynamic environment for start- ups Critically, it will be an action of this Plan to monitor the quantum of undeveloped lands as set out in Table 2.9 above in order to determine whether it is necessary to identify and zone additional lands for employment purposes having regard to the employment hierarchy as set out above. Core Strategy and Settlement Strategy It is an objective of the Council to: CS O1 Ensure that the future growth and spatial development of County Kildare is in accordance with the population and housing allocations contained in the Core Strategy which aligns with the regional growth strategy as set out in the National Planning Framework and Regional Spatial and Economic Strategy for the Eastern and Midland Region and further specified in the ‘Housing Supply Target Methodology for Development Planning’. CS O2 Ensure that the future growth and spatial development of County35

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   Kildare provides for a county that is resilient to climate change, enables the decarbonisation of the county’s economy and reduces the county’s carbon footprint in support of national targets for climate mitigation and adaption objectives as well as targets for greenhouse gas emissions reductions. CS O3 Actively engage with the Eastern Midlands Regional Assembly during the mid-term review of the Regional Spatial and Economic Strategy and to inform the consideration of how urban settlements, regional growth centres and the retail hierarchy are designated within the region. CS O4 Ensure that sufficient zoned and adequately serviced lands are available to meet the planned population and housing growth of settlements throughout the county in line with the Core Strategy and the Settlement Hierarchy. CS O5 Promote compact growth and the renewal of towns and villages through the development of underutilised town centres and brownfield sites, and where appropriate, pursue through active land management measures a co-ordinated planned approach to developing appropriately zoned lands at key locations, including regeneration areas, vacant sites and under-utilised areas in cooperation with state agencies, while also maintaining a ‘live’ baseline dataset to monitor the delivery of population growth on existing zoned and serviced lands to achieve the sustainable compact growth targets of 30% of all new housing within the existing urban footprint of settlements. CS O6 Promote, and initiate where feasible, measures to reduce vacancy and the underutilisation of existing building stock and support initiatives that promote the reuse, refurbishment and retrofitting of existing buildings within settlements throughout the county. CS O7 Promote and facilitate the development of sustainable and socially integrated communities through, a plan-led approach that is informed by settlement capacity audits and social infrastructure audits by providing for land use zoning designations capable of accommodating employment, environmental education, community, leisure, education campuses, childcare, recreational and cultural facilities having regard to the quality of the receiving environment, and any landscape character, archaeological and architectural heritage sensitivities. CS O8 Support the implementation of Kildare’s Climate Change Adaptation Plan in conjunction with all relevant stakeholders. CS O9 Review and prepare on an ongoing basis a portfolio of Local Area Plans (LAPs) for the mandatory LAP settlements (and environs, where appropriate) of Naas, Maynooth, Newbridge, Leixlip, Kildare, Athy, Celbridge, Kilcock, Monasterevin, Sallins, Clane and Kilcullen in accordance with the objectives of the County Development Plan and36

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   all relevant Section 28 Ministerial Guidelines.14 CS O10 Prepare a Joint Local Area Plan for Maynooth and Environs in conjunction with Meath County Council. CS O11 Inform and engage with the preparation of the emerging Local Economic and Community Plan (LECP) for the county which will promote and support the economic and community development of Kildare. CS O12 Continue to implement the Council’s programme of regeneration and renewal projects and actively seek funding from relevant agencies and Government sources including the Rural/Urban Regeneration and Development Fund (RRDF/URDF) in order to ensure the equitable delivery of projects across County Kildare and endeavour to ensure that such project proposals are, where possible, fully prepared in advance of funding announcements and to have resources allocated to focus on undeveloped projects or match funded opportunities. CS O13 Require that the design of future development complies with the 10- minute settlement principle through the creation of a safe, attractive, permeable, and universally accessible environment for all, including permeability to existing estates to require public consultation which maximises the potential for active modes of travel along with accessibility to both present and planned public transport options and to advocate for increased public transport options to meet this goal where none are in place. CS O14 Engage with public infrastructure providers including Irish Water and local communities to provide serviced sites with appropriate infrastructure for people to build their own homes in designated towns and villages, subject to all relevant planning and environmental criteria as a sustainable alternative to one off housing. CS O15 Monitor the take up of available employment related land use zonings throughout the county every two years following the adoption of the Plan in order to determine if further lands are required to be zoned for employment purposes at particular locations. CS O16 Review the existing quantum of employment related land use zonings in each of the Local Area Plan (LAP) towns as part of the review of each of the LAPs. Additional lands may be zoned for employment purposes, as necessary and appropriate in accordance with the principles of proper planning and sustainable development. 14 Where any objectives of an LAP are deemed to be no longer wholly consistent with the County Development Plan, the Planning Authority, will, where practical, consider options regarding the initiation of a review and/or prepare a statutory amendment to the LAP.37

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   CS O17 Continue to work in a positive and proactive manner with key stakeholders to identify ways of attracting investors and employers to locate in Kildare, in partnership with the Kildare Chamber of Commerce, the Kildare Local Enterprise Office and the IDA. CS O18 Continue to work with the educational institutions throughout the county and Solas, in order to further enhance the already existing highly skilled labour force in Kildare and to encourage improvements in the labour force to include the development of specific apprenticeships in the technology, tourism, youth and childcare sectors during the lifetime of the plan to enhance and develop the agility of the workforces in those sectors. CS O19 Align the Kildare County Development Plan 2023-2029, with the up-todate population from Census 2022 where there are verified material population differentials at settlement level to those in Table 2.8 of the Plan, by way of a statutory variation/ review pursuant to Section 13 of the Planning and Development Act 2000 (as amended). CS O20 Prepare a Local Transport Plan, Settlement Capacity Audit and Social Infrastructure Audit for each local area plan, in order to facilitate the integration of land use and transportation, to apply a tiered approach to zoning and to identify deficiencies in social infrastructure provision, all in order to provide a sustainable growth strategy for each town.15 CS O21 Monitor the delivery of new housing units and facilitating infrastructure (i.e., Irish Water Capital Investment Programme, Irish Rail DART + Programmes etc.) across County Kildare 16 on an annual basis to ensure general compliance with the County Development Plan Core Strategy and housing supply targets to inform possible redistribution if/where appropriate. CS O22 Ensure that all sustainable urban extensions to settlements along high-capacity public transport routes (Dart+ services, Bus Connects routes and any designated bus only/ bus priority route) are considered in the appropriate Local Area Plan process, in conjunction with the Regional Spatial and Economic Strategy to support new distributed growth in County Kildare during the life of this Plan and to inform the next County Development Plan, LAPs, UDZs and or any other plans or variation. CS O23 Support the implementation of LEADER Programmes equally across all areas which aim to deliver a range of rural enterprise, social inclusion and community development initiatives in County Kildare. 15 Detailed infrastructure assessments, consistent with NPO 72 and the methodology for a Tiered Approach to Zoning under Appendix 3 of the NPF, and Settlement Capacity Audits under Appendix A of the Development Plans, Guidelines for Planning Authorities (2022) will continue to be prepared to inform the development strategy for future Local Area Plans in the county. 16 In accordance with the CSO Housing Completion data38

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   CS O24 Consider any proposal for a Strategic Development Zone (SDZ) in County Kildare on its merits, having regard to the characteristics of the proposed area and the ability of the receiving environment to absorb new development of the level proposed.39

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   Ordnance Survey Ireland data reproduced under OSi Licence number CYAL50250173 © Ordnance Survey Ireland/Government of Ireland/Kildare County Council Core Strategy Map Stage Date This drawing is to be read in conjunction with the written statement Description County Development Plan 2023-2029 Metropolitan Area Multi-Model Transport Corridoor Rural Housing Policy Zone 1 Rural Housing Policy Zone 2 Settlement_Strategy Key Town Self Sustaining Growth Town Self Sustaining Town Town Motorway National Road Regional Roads Rail Line Rivers Canals Legend Scale: N.T.S. Drawn By: M O'Loughlin Date 28/01/2023 County Development Plan 28/01/2023 Map Ref: V1-2.1 Date: January 2023 Date the Plan comes into effect Checked By: L Crawford Date 28/01/2023 County Development Plan 09/12/2022 Plan adopted by Elected Members Drawing No.: 200/22/1328 Approved By: C O'Donnell Date 28/01/202340

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   County Development Plan 2023-2029 Ordnance Survey Ireland data reproduced under OSi Licence Number CYAL50250173 © Ordnance Survey Ireland/Government of Ireland/Kildare County Council County Settlement Hierarchy Map Stage This drawing is to be read in conjunction with the written statement Date Description Settlement Strategy Key Town Self Sustaining Growth Town Self Sustaining Town Town Village Rural Settlement Rural Node Metropolitan Area Core Region Gateway Region Legend Scale: N.T.S. Drawn By: M O'Loughlin Date 28/01/2023 County Development Plan 28/01/2023 Map Ref: V1-2.2 Date the Plan comes into effect Checked By: L Crawford Date 28/01/2023 Date: January 2023 County Development Plan 09/12/2022 Plan adopted by Elected Members Drawing No.: 200/22/1327 Approved By: C O'Donnell Date 28/01/202341

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