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South Dublin County Development Plan 2022–2028 – Written Statement
The council's development plan written statement: its strategy, policies, objectives and development standards. Variations adopted since are not in this text.
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- SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2022-2028168Green Infrastructure (GI) Core Areas and Stepping Stones Objectives associated with the Core Areas / Stepping Stones Core Areas: Dodder Valley Park Tymon Park Grand Canal Liffey Valley (Waterstown Park) Stepping Stones: Ballymount Park / Newlands Farm Collinstown Park à To investigate EU funding mechanisms for nature-based solutions to climate change, exploring the feasibility of developing or retrofitting an eco-bridge or eco-tunnel across the M50 to provide ecological connectivity between both sides of Tymon Park for both biodiversity and for local communities. à To investigate EU funding mechanisms for nature-based solutions to climate change, exploring the feasibility of developing or retrofitting an eco-bridge or eco-tunnel across the M50 to provide ecological connectivity between Collinstown Park and Green space at Cloverhill Road. à To promote habitat improvement at Collinstown Park.
- SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2022-2028169Green Infrastructure (GI) Strategic Corridor 3: Grand Canal Corridor The Grand Canal is a key national Green Infrastructure feature, acting as a major ecological and recreational link between the River Shannon in the midlands and Dublin City where the canal enters the sea. As a proposed Natural Heritage Area, the Canal supports a range of key ecosystem services along its entire route and offers a major route for a range of protected species from Dublin’s rural hinterland through the urban environment of South Dublin County. While the Grand Canal offers significant opportunities for recreation and amenity, these provisions must be appropriate to the status of the Canal, at a time of biodiversity loss, as a key biodiversity corridor. This is particularly important when the Canal encounters the more urban environment of South Dublin County, where higher population densities and demand for recreational provision has the potential to sever and fragment the Canal’s regional ecological connectivity. The Grand Canal Corridor forms a major point of interaction with other identified Strategic Corridors in this Strategy: the M50 Corridor, the Rural / Urban Fringe corridor, and the Liffey-to-Liffey Corridor, while further local links connect it to the other areas of the Liffey Valley Corridor. There are also opportunities to connect to the Royal Canal Greenway in Fingal County Council, expanding the potential for additional GI connectivity in the Dublin region. Overarching Objectives: à To protect and enhance the Grand Canal as an ecological green corridor, recognising its role as a national / regional corridor for wildlife and some ecosystem services. à To ensure that development along and adjacent to the Grand Canal, including the sensitive provision of amenity and recreational facilities, recognises the Canal’s ecological status, avoiding areas and features of biodiversity and heritage sensitivity, and that appropriate set-back distances or buffer areas are identified and included. à To facilitate and enhance connectivity, both ecological and amenity, between the Grand Canal and Royal Canal Greenways. à To engage with stakeholders along the Grand Canal to achieve shared objectives for this GI feature, without negatively impacting on the Canal’s natural ecosystem services. To improve permeability and access to the Grand Canal for residents and visitors in a manner that does not cause habitat fragmentation. à To ensure that the design of recreational and amenity facilities along the Grand Canal Corridor will enhance and protect the character of the landscape through which it passes (see Appendix 9: South Dublin County Landscape Character Assessment, for landscape character details).
- SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2022-2028170Green Infrastructure (GI) Core Areas and Stepping Stones Objectives associated with the Core Areas / Stepping Stones Core Areas: Grand Canal pNHA Stepping Stones: Green spaces at Kishoge Green space at Clonburris Scrubland at Coolscuddan Open Spaces at Deansrath and Bawnogue Open Space and water body at Grange Castle Business Park à To preserve and enhance hedgerows to provide improved connectivity between the scrubland at Coolscuddan (north of Grangecastle West) and the Grand Canal GI Corridor. à To establish additional planted buffering along the course of the Grand Canal at Kylemore in order to mitigate the impact of industrial activities at Park West Industrial Estate and West Link Industrial Estate to the north and preserve the canals biodiversity and landscape / placemaking value. à To enhance the biodiversity within open space areas acting as stepping stones proximal to the Grand Canal Corridor.
- SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2022-2028171Green Infrastructure (GI) Strategic Corridor 4: Liffey Valley Corridor The River Liffey traverses the northern boundary of the County and is a GI corridor of regional importance. It provides a ‘green lung’ for Dublin City / County and is a key element of the wider regional GI network, running from its origins in the Wicklow Mountains through the plains of County Kildare and through County Dublin into Dublin City Centre where it enters the sea. Sections of the River Liffey are designated as proposed Natural Heritage Areas, while the portion within South Dublin County and Fingal County is also subject to a Special Amenity Area Order. These designations reflect the variety of habitats and protected species supported by the River Liffey. The majestic open parkland setting of sections of the River Liffey Valley provide opportunities to strengthen the visual and landscape amenity value of the valley and create appropriately designed pedestrian and cycle routes that can traverse the County and link with amenities in adjoining counties. Overarching Objectives: à To protect and enhance the outstanding character and ecology of the Liffey Valley Corridor, recognising its value as a key regional landscape and GI feature that supports important habitats, species, and a range of ecosystem services. à To protect and enhance the recreation and amenity value of the Liffey Valley Corridor, recognising its environmental sensitivities. à To enhance connectivity with the surrounding regional GI network infrastructure. à To facilitate and support the development of the Liffey Valley as an interconnected network of parklands and support the development of a carefully considered greenway in collaboration with Dublin City Council, Fingal County Council, and Kildare County Council. à To protect green and blue infrastructure within the River Liffey corridor based on the riparian corridors outlined in the Development Plan Green Infrastructure Map. à To protect and enhance the outstanding landscape character and amenity of the Liffey Valley (see Appendix 9: South Dublin County Landscape Character Assessment, for landscape character details).
- SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2022-2028172Green Infrastructure (GI) Core Areas and Stepping Stones Objectives associated with the Core Areas / Stepping Stones Core Areas: Areas designated SAAO and pNHA including: Lucan Demesne Italian Legation lands St. Edmondsbury lands Hermitage Golf Course lands King’s Hospital lands Waterstown Park Stepping Stones: Lucan Heights Lucan Weir Park Vessey Park Griffeen Valley Park à To preserve the existing woodland, trees and hedgerows at Lucan Demesne. à To investigate the potential for enhanced connectivity between Lucan Demesne and St. Edmundsbury lands. à To investigate the potential for enhanced access to St. Edmondsbury lands from Lucan. à To preserve and enhance existing woodlands and hedgerows at St. Edmondsbury. à To maximise the recreational amenity supported by proximity to the river within Lucan Demesne. à To continue to implement the grassland, hedgerow and landscape management regimes supporting biodiversity and the presence of ground nesting birds in particular, in Waterstown Park. à To develop a plan to manage access to the Liffey Valley to the publicly owned lands to the north east of the Hermitage Clinic. à To implement sensitive planting in order to enhance the setting of recorded monuments, including the Woodville Castle site (Lucan), a Recorded Monument (no. DU017-006) to contribute to local placemaking and amenity.
- SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2022-2028173Green Infrastructure (GI) Strategic Corridor 5: Camac River Corridor This corridor generally marks the interface between the urban and rural parts of the County. It follows the route of the River Camac from its origins in the foothills of the Dublin Mountains through the urban area of Clondalkin, flowing through Corkagh Park. While urban pressures have impacted upon the Camac River, it still sustains populations of protected species and habitats, making the Camac a key GI feature. This corridor has great potential as a regional level green infrastructure threading through the high-density urban areas. The opportunity to daylight existing culverted sections should be considered. Development at the urban / rural interface has the potential to inadvertently sever existing connectivity, both for wildlife and for local communities. Planning carefully for the inclusion of GI principles at this interface zone is therefore critically important if rural GI is to be protected and incorporated into new communities and enterprise developments. Overarching Objectives: à To avoid further fragmentation of the Green Infrastructure network at the urban fringe and strengthen existing ecological links between built-up areas along this corridor. à To enhance the GI network by addressing habitat quality issues along the Camac River and by identifying and including additional ‘stepping stone’ opportunities along the river. à To improve the ecological GI value and connectivity of landscape features created as part of permitted development. à To seek the daylighting of existing culverted sections of the Camac River Corridor. à To support the emerging principles of the City Edge Strategic Framework Plan and to support the naturalisation of the Camac River as part of that process. à To promote the completion of a Greenway linking Corkagh Park with Clondalkin Village and onwards to the Grand Canal Greenway.
- SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2022-2028174Green Infrastructure (GI) Core Areas and Stepping Stones Objectives associated with the Core Areas / Stepping Stones Core Areas: Corkagh Park Stepping Stones: Slievethoul / Slade Valley Lugg Forest Rathcoole Park Open spaces at City West Open spaces at Kilcarbery Rathcoole Alluvial Woodlands within RU zoning à To investigate potential opportunities to link existing and proposed recreational trails at Slade Valley to the emerging Dodder Greenway in order to improve recreational access and amenity. à To investigate the potential opportunities to link woodlands at Rathcoole to existing and proposed recreational trails at Lugg Woods and Slade Valley. à To improve GI value of newly developed landscape features (such as lakes) in Citywest. à To retain the open space adjacent to Rathcoole Park, developed as part of the Mill Lands Development as an open space area and provide a link between Rathcoole and Saggart. à To support the implementation of the Slade Valley Walking Route. à To preserve and enhance the status of Corkagh Park as a regional park for biodiversity and ecosystems services (including flooding) importance. à To preserve and protect the Alluvial Woodlands at Rathcoole within the zoning RU as an environmentally sensitive area for biodiversity and ecosystems services of importance having full regard to their Annex 1 status. à To include woodlands at Rathcoole as part of a wider nature / walking trail from Saggart to Lugg Woods subject to the protection of its biodiversity, wildlife and ecological value which is of primary importance.
- SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2022-2028175Green Infrastructure (GI) Strategic Corridor 6: Rural Fringe Corridor This corridor is important for both South Dublin and the wider regional GI network, providing a link between the foothills of the Dublin Mountains and lands at Wicklow to the south, through the rural landscape that marks the western section of the County to the Grand Canal and Liffey Valley corridors and connecting with lands at Leixlip in Kildare. This link recognises the important landscape character and rural heritage of the County’s western corridor and represents the final swathe of landscape in the County that retains its lowland rural heritage, supporting both its human communities and its biodiversity. The rural landscape of fields and hedgerows offers significant north-south ecological links through the County for ecosystem services and for species such as bats, badgers, and farmland birds. It also provides a significant opportunity to retain a green buffer for biodiversity and amenity provision for people between the urban expanse of this County and the County boundary with Co. Kildare. The corridor also sustains other cultural heritage assets, reflecting the position that South Dublin County once held in previous times as a supplier of agricultural produce to the expanding city of Dublin.
- SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2022-2028176Green Infrastructure (GI) Overarching Objectives: à To identify measures to protect the distinctive rural landscape of the western hinterland of South Dublin County, reflecting its high value as an ecosystem services provider and a cultural heritage asset for the County and a green lung between growing settlements to the east and west. à To collaboratively investigate with Kildare County Council the benefits of providing a greenbelt or green space between the growing settlements within South Dublin County and Kildare County Councils within the lifetime of the Development Plan. à To support and facilitate the development of accessible links between the Liffey Valley and the Grand Canal corridors. à To protect and provide an enhanced ecological, recreation and amenity corridor linking the county’s Green Infrastructure corridors on the western boundary of the county. à To investigate the feasibility of developing or retrofitting an eco-bridge or eco-tunnel across the N7 roadway and the M4. à To promote opportunities for local food production through allotments or other means as appropriate. à To retain the rural character of the existing roads retaining roadside hedgerows and drainage ditch networks. à To investigate and support the potential for a western-corridor way marked walking / cycling route utilising public roads, walkways and other accessible lands. à To consider the opportunities for rural hedgerow restoration including townland boundaries and other ancient field boundaries. à Recognise the contribution of agriculture to the production of high quality food and the protection of the natural heritage and promoting the use of environmentally friendly agricultural practices. Core Areas and Stepping Stones Objectives associated with the Core Areas / Stepping Stones Core Areas: Dublin / Wicklow Mountains Grand Canal pNHA Liffey Valley Stepping Stones: Slievethoul / Slade Valley Airlie Park (being developed) Lucan Golf Course Hedgerows and woodlands à To support the implementation of the Dublin Mountains Forest Conversion Plan by Coillte Nature in order to promote biodiversity and active and visual amenity.
- SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2022-2028177Green Infrastructure (GI)
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