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South Dublin County Development Plan 2022–2028 – Written Statement
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- SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2022-2028338Economic Development and Employment (EDE)338 9.0 Introduction The Development Plan faces the challenge of responding proactively to circumstance and facilitating a built-in resilience and strength to the County’s economy through providing for attractive places to work and a broad employment base. The preparation of the 2022-2028 Development Plan takes place within a period of significant economic flux. The heightened global uncertainty surrounding the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, has revised slightly downward the Economic Social Research Institute (ESRI) Quarterly Economic Commentary Spring 2022 forecast. While significant downside risks for the public finances are identified owing to the geopolitical crisis and higher than anticipated inflation, the Irish economy is considered to be well positioned to recover strongly as the threat from COVID-19 recedes. ESRI forecasts that modified domestic demand will grow by 5 per cent in 2022. Unemployment continues to improve following the lifting of Covid restrictions to 5.2% in February 2022 from a pre-COVID low of 4.7 per cent in February 2020. This chapter sets out a broad spatial framework for enterprise and employment including the retail strategy for the County. Potential growth sectors are identified, and policies are included to encourage more labour-intensive sectors, promoting compact growth in appropriate locations, while recognising the need for a broad based, inclusive, and resilient economy within the County. 9.0.1 Planning Policy Context Development Plan policies and objectives must be consistent with national and regional planning policy as set out in the National Planning Framework (2018) (NPF) and the Regional Spatial and Economic Strategy (2019) (RSES). National Strategic Outcome 5 of the NPF seeks a strong economy for the country supported by enterprise, innovation, and skills. It is recognised that this depends on creating places that can foster enterprise and innovations and attract investment and talent. Similarly, Strategic Outcome 3 seeks strengthened rural economies and communities. Nationally, under NPO 6, there is an objective to ‘regenerate and rejuvenate cities, towns and villages of all types and scale as environmental assets, that can accommodate changing roles and functions, increased residential population and employment activity and enhanced levels of amenity and design quality, in order to sustainably influence and support their surrounding area’. This will become increasingly relevant as trends in retail and other sectors continue to change and urban areas look to reinvent themselves to different degrees. The place of funding under the Rural and Urban Regeneration and Development Fund in applying a tailored approach to development is set out in National Policy Objective 7 and South Dublin County has been to the fore in using this funding mechanism to best advantage in Clonburris and Adamstown SDZs and the Tallaght and City Edge regeneration areas. Key strategic employment areas for South Dublin have been identified in the RSES. These are concentrated at Grange Castle Business Park and the regeneration areas at
- SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2022-2028339Economic Development and Employment (EDE) Tallaght (Cookstown) and the City Edge / City Edge Strategic Framework area. The RSES also supports the implementation of Local Authority Local Economic and Community Plans (LECP), in collaboration with Local and Economic Development Committees (LCDCs), and using spatial planning policies, seeks to reduce the number of people in or at risk of poverty and social exclusion in the Region. South Dublin County’s LECP will be reviewed during the preparation of this Development Plan and a co-ordinated approach to policy and actions in both plans will be pursued. There are many other relevant national and regional policy objectives. These are referenced by number within individual Development Plan policies and objectives and are set out in full at Appendix 7. Enterprise 2025 Renewed was published by the Department of Business, Enterprise and Innovation in 2018 and, recognising the different existing and potential shocks within the economy, focuses on the need for resilience and the need to accelerate change. Alongside Project Ireland 2040 and the RSES, it sets a comprehensive framework for economic policy for the County Development Plan. 9.0.2 Economic Development and Climate Action Climate change, sustainable development and the green economy are now central policy concerns for the international and national community, forming a central role to the strategy of the IDA and Enterprise Ireland. The transition to a low carbon and climate resilient society is also a national strategic outcome of the NPF. It is therefore vital that the Development Plan realises its role in the delivery of the green economy. The compact growth approach taken in this Development Plan, with its potential for helping to achieve climate action targets at local and national level, applies not just to residential development but also to economic development within the County. Uses related to employment and economic development account for 1,300 ha of zoned land in the County, not including the wide range of commercial and retail businesses which bring life to our towns and villages. Ensuring that we put the right employment in the right place, building on sustainable mobility and the potential for active travel will have a significant impact on the realisation of climate action targets. The source of Greenhouse Gases (GHGs) from the industrial and commercial sectors is essentially from the activities and processes used in the manufacturing process. These include combustion emissions from industrial and commercial activities, including processes used in food and drinks production. Fossil fuels are also used for the heating and cooling of industrial and commercial buildings. Energy efficient gains are achievable in this sector through innovative design, low-carbon technology, use of Combined Heat and Power (CHP) and roll out of district heating and other renewable energy projects. In addition, sustainable development requires that our economic strategy is resilient, adaptable and innovative. 9.0.3 Placemaking The role of placemaking in helping to enhance Ireland’s attractiveness to investors has been highlighted by research carried out by the IDA and the Department of
- SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2022-2028340Economic Development and Employment (EDE) Housing, Planning and Local Government in recent years. The creation of urban environments that offer good quality of life is important in allowing investors to attract and retain the talent necessary to support their establishment and growth. Placemaking offers the opportunity to differentiate Ireland and South Dublin County from other locations by delivering attractive, vibrant urban areas in which to reside and work. Placemaking is often referred to in the context of residential development. However, the concept of placemaking should be fully integrated into all development. Our businesses, offices and warehouses and the sites on which they sit potentially have a key role to play in the creation of attractive places within wider communities. They may contribute to urban squares or the public realm, or in more traditional warehouse areas, the overall site may have the potential to contribute to an important ecological or green infrastructure corridor. There are nearly 108,000 people employed in businesses and enterprises across our county. The working day could and should be passed in a place with a strong sense of community and connectivity rather than just being a destination. Equally, emerging changes to working practices such as home working or working from hubs, needs to be supported within an attractive, local and accessible environment. 9.0.4 Overarching Policy Policy EDE1: Overarching Support sustainable enterprise and employment growth in South Dublin County recognising the County’s role in the Dublin region as a driver of economic growth EDE1 Objective 1: To enable a strong, inclusive and resilient economy, supported by enterprise, innovation and skills through the creation of places that can foster enterprise and innovation and attract investment and talent, consistent with National Strategic Outcomes 4, 5 and 6 of the NPF. EDE1 Objective 2: To develop and support the Dublin Metropolitan Area Strategic Plan (MASP) through growth in the identified strategic development and employment areas of South Dublin County, as part of the growth of the Dublin Region to a sufficient scale and quality to compete internationally and to be drivers of national and regional growth, investment, and prosperity consistent with NSO 5 of the NPF. EDE1 Objective 3: To ensure that there is a sufficient supply of zoned and serviced lands at suitable locations to accommodate a range of enterprise and employment development types and to promote compact growth by strengthening the integration between employment, housing and transportation.
- SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2022-2028341Economic Development and Employment (EDE) EDE1 Objective 4: To support the implementation of the RSES Economic Strategy to create economic opportunity to diversify local and rural economies and create quality jobs, to achieve a sustainable, competitive, inclusive, and resilient region, through the promotion of: à Smart Specialisation for industry, enterprise agencies, Higher Institutes of Education, communities, and stakeholders; à Clustering: Create, maintain, or upgrade economic strongholds in a favourable business ecosystem; à Orderly Growth reflecting the identified strategic employment locations within the County; à A broad, resilient, economic base. EDE1 Objective 5: To support the implementation of the Metropolitan Area Strategic Plan to support the objectives for the South - West Corridor and the area within the M50 by the: à Promotion of high tech, manufacturing and research and development in Grange Castle Business Park and Citywest; à Intensification of industrial lands and mixed-use development at the City Edge / City Edge Strategic Framework area and in Tallaght Town Centre / Cookstown while ensuring, to the greatest extent possible, the sustainability of existing businesses and employment. EDE1 Objective 6: To ensure that economic and enterprise related development is provided in a manner which facilitates a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by supporting and promoting the following measures: à An increase in employment densities within walkable distances of communities and on public transport routes; à Promotion of walking and cycling and use of public transport through increased permeability and mobility management measures within and outside employment areas; à The sourcing of power from district heating and renewables including wind, hydro and solar; à Additional native tree planting and landscaping on existing and proposed enterprise zones and development sites to aid with carbon sequestration, contribute to the green infrastructure network of the County and promote quality placemaking. EDE1 Objective 7: To ensure a co-ordinated approach to policy and objectives contained within the County Development Plan and the Local Economic and Community Plan.
- SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2022-2028342Economic Development and Employment (EDE) 9.1 Employment in South Dublin County South Dublin County has a strong and diverse economic base. The County is home to 6,975 (SDCC rates data 2022) business entities and had 84,6271 jobs at the time of Census 2016 (CSO Workplace Zone Data). Retailing, transportation and distribution, industry and manufacturing, professional and financial services, medical and pharmaceuticals are the key economic sectors in the County. There are currently 1,352 ha of land zoned specifically for employment use in the County with an estimated 617 ha undeveloped to date. In addition, there is 425 ha of land zoned for regeneration focused on Cookstown in Tallaght and the City Edge lands. The latter area crosses over the administrative boundary into Dublin City. It is one of the largest regeneration areas in Europe and will be subject to a joint planning framework between the two local authority’s. Mixed employment, including services and retail, are a key element of the local economy and are reflected by mixed use type zonings in our different urban centres. Economic activity is focused on enterprise lands and urban centres for the most part, with a number of identifiable economic clusters: à The Citywest Business Campus and Grange Castle Business Park are modern business parks located in the west of the County with capacity to attract large scale industries of regional, national and international significance, due to the availability of large plot sizes, infrastructure and corporate park style environments. These areas have attracted a significant number of blue-chip national and multi-national corporations. Significant investment has been made over the past two decades in infrastructure and services to support these economic areas. Grange Castle Business Park is identified in the MASP as a strategic development area for the promotion of high-tech manufacturing, research and development. à The Greenogue and Aerodrome Business Parks at Rathcoole / Newcastle, Clondalkin Industrial Estate and Fonthill Industrial Estate are large industrial campuses comprising a mix of largely warehousing and manufacturing facilities, providing potential for new jobs or any displacement of jobs from the Naas Road or Tallaght REGEN lands over the coming years. Other smaller industrial estates throughout the County can also offer space for employment throughout the lifetime of the plan. à Tallaght Town Centre, the County Town, has emerged over the last two decades as a centre for civic and institutional uses in addition to retailing and hospitality services. It plays host to several major institutions including Tallaght Hospital, Technology University Dublin (Tallaght Campus), South Dublin County Council headquarters and the head office of the Dublin and Dun Laoghaire Education and Training Board (formerly VEC). The various industrial estates provide a range of employment in the immediate area. The Council will seek to strengthen Tallaght’s position as an urban centre of regional significance. Tallaght has significant potential for regeneration, focused on Cookstown, with a local area plan adopted in 2020, reflecting its location for strategic growth identified in the MASP. 1 Source: EMRA - Socio-Economic Evidence Baseline Report, available at: https://emra.ie/dubh/ wp-content/uploads/2017/12/EMRA-Economy-and-Employment.pdf
- SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2022-2028343Economic Development and Employment (EDE) à The City Edge / City Edge Strategic Framework area is an older industrial area which is identified in the MASP as one of the strategic areas of mixed-use growth in the County. The existing employment profile for this area of the County highlights ‘Wholesale / Retail Trade’ which accounts for 40.4% of total employees, with ‘Information and Communications, Financial’ accounting for 21.6% of total employees. A statutory plan for the long-term development of the City Edge REGEN and other lands on the Naas Road and adjoining Dublin City will be prepared. à The TU Dublin-Tallaght Campus has a central role to play as the main higher education institution in South Dublin County, with over 7,000 students. It is now incorporated within the Technological University Dublin and further expansion of the campus is now underway. à Strategic Development Zones (SDZ) at Adamstown and Clonburris are focused on residential development but with a significant land bank for supporting services, retail and enterprise development. Retail is a significant employer within the County. Trends in retail are changing, with consumers increasingly moving towards online shopping in comparison to historic trends of shopping in town centre locations. This continues to present challenges for the vibrancy and role of our towns, villages and retail centres (see Retail Strategy in this chapter). 9.2 South Dublin County Employment Themes Economic policy in this Development Plan reflects the overarching themes of climate change and placemaking and integrates National and Regional direction into policy at a county level. This is supported in the following four economic policy areas for the Plan: 1. Green and Innovative Economy;
- SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2022-2028344Economic Development and Employment (EDE) 2. Urban Growth, Regeneration and Placemaking; 3. Building on Clusters; 4. A Learning Economy. 9.2.1 Green and Innovative Economy Climate change, sustainable development and the green economy are central policy concerns for global institutions and agencies including the UN, World Economic Forum, World Bank and EU. These themes are integrated into the strategies of the IDA and Enterprise Ireland and the NPF and RSES. It is therefore vital that the Development Plan recognises the importance of the green economy as industry mitigates and adapts to climate change. As part of a modern economy with leading global companies, sustainability in all its forms is considered a competitive necessity for business in South Dublin County. The central focus of sustainable development and the green economy requires that our economic policies adapt to context, reflecting the need to be resilient, adaptable and innovative. Innovation not only refers to technological and organisational change but also how land use is managed to support the green economy. The core strategy and settlement strategy of this Plan reflect the need for orderly growth to support the green economy and innovation. Policy EDE2: Green Economy Support the Green Economy as a means of future proofing South Dublin County’s economy and facilitate this through orderly growth. EDE2 Objective 1: To ensure that climate action and sustainable development is central to economic development in the County through sustainable land use and orderly growth and a co-ordinated approach to the preparation and implementation of South Dublin County Council Climate Change Action Plan (2019-2024) and the Local Economic and Community Plan (2016-2021). EDE2 Objective 2: To support the growth of business in the green and circular economy and the initiatives within the IDA strategy ‘Driving Recovery and Sustainable Growth’ (or any superseding documents), including growth and transformation, where it promotes sustainable job creation in South Dublin County. EDE2 Objective 3: To promote net zero-carbon and carbon reduction in economic development through the support of relevant actions of the National Climate Action Plan including Action 15 to implement the National Planning Framework and Action 46 to Examine feasibility for commercial rates to be linked to BER (or as superseded).
- SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2022-2028345Economic Development and Employment (EDE) EDE2 Objective 4: To support the measures in South Dublin’s Climate Change Action Plan (2019- 2024), or any superseding plan, to integrate the Circular Economy approach with economic development initiatives, in order to optimise opportunities in design and operation to reduce energy and material consumption and recycling of materials in support of sustainable development. EDE2 Objective 5: To support the promotion of skills, education and awareness raising in the energy efficiency sectors, promoting smart technologies and well-connected communities. Policy EDE3: Innovative Economy Promote an Innovative Economy, fostering an environment which supports creativity and new technologies in the places we live, work and invest in, supported through orderly growth at strategic population and employment locations. EDE3 Objective 1: To support the provision of a highly interconnected “ecosystem” or network of entrepreneurs and investors, technologists and innovators in the County. EDE3 Objective 2: To support the delivery of a resilient economy, capable of an agile and flexible response to short-term stresses and cycles through the promotion of a broad economic base, appropriately zoned land and ongoing stakeholder engagement. EDE3 Objective 3: To create an environment that supports export and non-export enterprise and small business. EDE3 Objective 4: To support the development of South Dublin County as a SMART city that utilises technology to make life easier for residents and business; particularly how and where people spend their time. EDE3 Objective 5: To promote, through good placemaking, the delivery of places and communities which encourage employers and workers alike to live in the County, closer to their workplaces, promoting more sustainable travel and a good quality of life. EDE3 Objective 6: To support the development of new and existing enterprise centres to provide locally based affordable work facilities such as co-working space and to improve employment opportunities and creative networks for local communities.
- SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2022-2028346Economic Development and Employment (EDE) EDE3 Objective 7: To promote the provision of workspace as part of any mixed-use development on REGEN zoned land. 9.2.2 Urban Growth, Regeneration and Placemaking South Dublin County’s growth is set out in the core strategy and settlement strategy in Chapter 2. Population growth must be supported by growth in jobs if the County is to develop in a compact manner and reduce the need to commute. In achieving this at a spatial level, the location of employment will be important. Priority will be given to people intensive enterprise where there is good public transport, services and appropriate infrastructure. South Dublin County’s regeneration areas, at City Edge and Cookstown in Tallaght, are well located to provide for this intensification, and will promote this type of use. A framework plan has been prepared for the City Edge lands which will inform a statutory land use plan for the area. Land or space extensive employment uses will generally be encouraged to locate outside the M50 where there are a number of industrial estates within the County with good transport links. Working from home or from a local hub provides options for employees and employers which are increasingly likely to be taken up. This provides an opportunity not just for a more balanced live-work environment but for the regeneration of spaces within towns and villages. Ground floor work-live units, where the residential component is ancillary to the workspace, will be encouraged within mixed use schemes to animate street frontages. As set out earlier in this chapter, good placemaking is recognised as a critically important competitive advantage in the attraction of business to an area. The Council recognises this and is continuously investing in placemaking through various schemes including the public realm improvements approved for the County town of Tallaght, the N81 landscaping improvements and village initiatives throughout the County. In line with this approach, the Council will investigate appropriate uses for lands at the 12th Lock in Lucan. This will recognise the significant potential of the central location of the 12th Lock and associated heritage, within a fast growing residential and employment area along the Grand Canal. Policy EDE4: Urban Growth, Regeneration and Placemaking Support urban growth and regeneration through the promotion of good placemaking to attract employees and employers and to provide a competitive advantage to the County and diverse investment opportunity. EDE4 Objective 1: To ensure that economic and employment development is located to optimise existing infrastructure and to support development and investment in the County’s urban centres supporting orderly growth and placemaking.
- SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2022-2028347Economic Development and Employment (EDE) EDE4 Objective 2: To promote quality placemaking and design as an integral element of attracting investment and a diverse and creative population to live and work within the County. EDE4 Objective 3: To ensure a synergy between economic growth and investment and the development of urban centres, supporting consolidation and re-intensification of infill, brownfield and underutilised lands within the County. EDE4 Objective 4: To direct people intensive enterprise and employment uses such as major office developments (>1,000 sq m gross floor area) into appropriately zoned lands subject to their location within approximately 500 metres of a high frequency urban bus service and / or within 1000 metres walking distance of high capacity transport stops (Train / Luas), and to demonstrate the required walking distance or provision of a permeability project, in accordance with the Permeability Best Practice Guide (2015), to achieve same. EDE4 Objective 5: To ensure that proposals to diversify or densify underutilised industrial lands support the overarching goals of placemaking, consolidating growth centres along public transport corridors in a planned and / or sequential basis, and ensuring realisable linkages with nearby services and amenities. EDE4 Objective 6: To support the provision of ground floor work-live units as part of mixed-use and residential developments in appropriate locations, as a means of enlivening streets and to provide flexible accommodation for small businesses. EDE4 Objective 7: To require that employment space provided as part of new mixed-use development is suitably designed to be a viable workspace to meet the needs of a broad range of different employment types. EDE4 Objective 8: To support the provision of a broad diversity of employment opportunities in the County that can attract a wide range of skills, training, and educational qualifications for a resilient and inclusive economy. EDE4 Objective 9: To consider proposals and initiatives that seek to re-purpose redundant or declining uses in important urban locations and ensure that proposals for the reuse of buildings demonstrate that new uses support a more sustainable use of the urban centre, having particular regard to its location and accessibility. EDE4 Objective 10: To support the City Edge / City Edge Strategic Framework and any future framework for the area in delivering urban growth and regeneration for the County and the wider Region, recognising its significant potential as the largest regeneration area in the country.
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