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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 2022-2028408Infrastructure and Environmental Services (IE) IE3 Objective 2: To maintain and enhance existing surface water drainage systems in the County and to require Sustainable Drainage Systems (SuDS) in new development in accordance with objectives set out in section 4.2.2 of this Plan including, where feasible, integrated constructed wetlands, at a local, district and County level, to control surface water outfall and protect water quality. IE3 Objective 3: To protect the regionally and locally important aquifers within the County from risk of pollution. IE3 Objective 4: To continue efforts to improve water quality under the Local Government (Water Pollution) Act 1977, as amended and by implementing the measures outlined under the Nitrates Directive (91 / 676 / EEC) and the current National Nitrates Action Programme (NAP) and all other relevant legislation. IE3 Objective 5: To generally prohibit development within restricted areas identified on the Bohernabreena / Glenasmole Reservoir Restricted Areas Map contained in Appendix 5. IE3 Objective 6: To protect salmonid water courses, such as the Liffey and Dodder River catchments (including Bohernabreena Reservoir), which are recognised to be exceptional in supporting salmonid fish species. IE3 Objective 7: To protect surface water quality by continuing to assess the impact of domestic and industrial misconnections to the drainage network in the County and the associated impact on surface water quality, and by implementing measures to address same, and to diagnose and repair any misconnections in Council housing stock as part of the re-letting process. IE3 Objective 8: Integrate Surface Water and Groundwater systems as an essential component of all new developments, in accordance with the requirements set out in Chapter 12: Implementation and Monitoring and the policies and objectives of this chapter. 11.3 Flood Risk Management The EU Floods Directive and the recommendations of the 2004 National Flood Policy Review Report are driving forces behind flood management in Ireland. The Planning System and Flood Risk Management Guidelines for Planning Authorities, DECLG and OPW (2009) and DECLG Circular P12 / 2014 address the interface between flood risk management and the planning system. The guidelines state that the steps in the development plan process and its Strategic Environmental Assessment need to be supported by an appropriate analysis of flood risk.
- SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2022-2028409Infrastructure and Environmental Services (IE) The SFRA of the County has been carried out to support the Strategic Environmental Assessment of the County Development Plan. The assessment was carried out in accordance with the requirements of the Flood Risk Management Guidelines and the EU Water Framework Directive. The SFRA Report is a separate document to be read in parallel with this Plan. The SFRA identifies and maps flood risk in the County and has supported a sequential approach to planning, in accordance with the recommendations of the Flood Risk Management Guidelines. Climate change adaption and resilience has become one of the fundamental considerations for strategic planning. As such, an appraisal of the potential impacts of climate change was carried out as part of the Strategic Flood Risk Assessment with regard to the OPW climate change parameters stated in the Flood Risk Management Climate Change Sectoral Adaptation Plan (2019), also international best practice within other European jurisdictions and the latest scientific studies. There is an increasing likelihood that Ireland’s climate will be similar to that depicted in the High-End Future climate change scenario by the year 2100. Therefore, High End Future Scenario (HEFS) parameters were used in the assessment process. This approach will also assist in achieving our obligations under the Water Framework Directive (WFD). The OPW is currently transitioning to regionally based climate models that reflect the likely varied impacts throughout the island of Ireland. These models will be implemented during the lifetime of the plan. 11.3.1 Riparian Corridors Riparian corridors are now regarded as essential for ecosystem service provision. The benefits of Riparian Corridors are addressed in detail in Chapter 4: Green Infrastructure, Section 4.2.2 Sustainable Water Management, relevant policy and objectives are also set out in that section. Hydromorphical Assessment and Riparian Corridor Designation Hydromorphological integrity is identified in the WFD as one of the three key criteria for determining waterbody status (the others being ecology and chemical). A strategic hydromorphological assessment of major rivers within South Dublin County was undertaken for the County Development Plan in parallel to the SFRA. The outcome of this study was the mapping of riparian corridors of the major rivers of the County. It is an objective of the plan to require Hydromorphical Assessment of development proposals that are within riparian corridors to demonstrate how the integrity of the Riparian Corridor can be maintained and enhanced having regard to flood risk management, biodiversity, ecosystem service provision, water quality and hydromorphology (riparian corridors are identified on Development Plan maps). For policy on riparian corridors see Chapter 4: Green Infrastructure, Section 4.2.2 Sustainable Water Management and the Strategic Flood Risk Assessment carried out as part of the Development Plan process, Section 6, Riparian Corridors.
- SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2022-2028410Infrastructure and Environmental Services (IE) Policy IE4: Flood Risk Ensure the continued incorporation of Flood Risk Management into the spatial planning of the County, to meet the requirements of the EU Floods Directive and the EU Water Framework Directive and to promote a climate resilient County. IE4 Objective 1: To require site specific flood risk assessments to be undertaken for all new developments within the County in accordance with The Planning System and Flood Risk Management – Guidelines for Planning Authorities (2009) and the requirements of DECLG Circular P12 / 2014 and the EU Floods Directive and Chapter 12: Implementation and Monitoring and the policies and objectives of this chapter. IE4 Objective 2: To require all developments in the County to be designed and constructed in accordance with the “Precautionary Principle” detailed in the OPW Guidelines. IE4 Objective 3: To continue to support and co-operate with the Office of Public Works in measures set out in the relevant Flood Risk Management Plan. IE4 Objective 4: To support and facilitate the delivery of flood alleviation schemes in South Dublin County, including the schemes listed, in as environmentally sensitive a way as possible and to ensure that zoning or development proposals do not impede or prevent the progression of these measures: à Poddle Flood Alleviation Scheme; à Camac Flood Alleviation Scheme; à Whitechurch Flood Alleviation Scheme; à Lucan to Chapelizod Flood Alleviation Scheme. IE4 SLO 1: To require the preparation of a site and catchment specific Flood Risk Assessment and Mitigation Strategy, prepared by a qualified person(s), to be submitted with any proposal for development on the ‘EE’ zoned lands at Moneenalion Commons Upper, Baldonnell (See Development Plan Map). 11.4 Information and Communications Technology The continued widespread availability of high-quality Information and Communications Technology (ICT) networks within the County is critical to the development of the County’s economy and to social progress. It will ensure that the County remains attractive to hi-tech knowledge-based industries providing for high value employment. It is also a huge asset to the residents of the County encouraging home working and individual entrepreneurial activity.
- SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2022-2028411Infrastructure and Environmental Services (IE) Policy IE5: Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Promote and facilitate the sustainable development of a high-quality ICT network throughout the County in order to achieve social and economic development, whilst protecting the amenities of urban and rural areas. IE5 Objective 1: To promote and facilitate the provision of appropriate telecommunications infrastructure, including broadband connectivity and other innovative and advancing technologies within the County in a non-intrusive manner. IE5 Objective 2: To co-operate with the relevant agencies to facilitate the undergrounding of all electricity, telephone and television cables in urban areas wherever possible, in the interests of visual amenity. IE5 Objective 3: To permit telecommunications antennae and support infrastructure throughout the County, subject to high quality design, the protection of sensitive landscapes and visual amenity. IE5 Objective 4: To discourage a proliferation of telecommunication masts in the County and promote and facilitate the sharing of facilities. IE5 Objective 5: To ensure that above ground utility boxes are sensitively located and finished to reduce their visual impact, designing out anti-social behaviour and promoting soft planting around existing and new ones where feasible. IE5 Objective 6: To require the identification of adjacent Public Rights of Way and established walking routes by applicants prior to any new telecommunication developments and to prohibit telecommunications developments that impinge thereon or on recreational amenities, public access to the countryside or the natural environment. IE5 Objective 7: Ensure that applications made in relation to the provision of overground telecommunications infrastructure, including planning applications and Section 254 licence applications, take into consideration and demonstrate compliance with the ‘Guidance on the Potential Location of Overground Telecommunications Infrastructure on Public Roads’ (2015). IE5 Objective 8: To investigate the potential for the provision of fibre optic cables in the County to facilitate the delivery of high-speed broadband and to work collaboratively with providers in facilitating the same.
- SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2022-2028412Infrastructure and Environmental Services (IE) 11.5 Electricity Infrastructure In line with government policy, the development of energy networks in a safe and secure way to meet projected demand levels and to ensure a long-term, sustainable and competitive energy future for Ireland will be critical to our economy and to enabling the relevant grid connections for renewable energy. The protection of existing networks as well as expansion, where necessary, will enable energy service providers to deliver their statutory function. It is recognised that natural gas, particularly renewable and indigenous gas, will have a role to play in the transition to a low carbon economy. As such, renewable energy developments may require support from such sources in times of high energy demand. Policy IE6: Electricity Infrastructure Protect the existing electricity infrastructure and support the development of a safe, secure and reliable supply of electricity and the development of enhanced electricity networks as well as new transmission infrastructure projects subject to the relevant environmental assessments. IE6 Objective 1: To support roll-out of the Smart Grids and Smart Cities Action Plan enabling new connections, grid balancing, energy management and micro grid development in line with RPO 10.19. IE6 Objective 2: To support the reinforcement and strengthening of the electricity transmission and distribution network to facilitate planned growth and transmission / distribution of a renewable energy focused generation in line with RPO 10.22 IE6 Objective 3: To support the sustainable development of Ireland’s offshore renewable energy resources in accordance with the Department of Environment, Climate and Communications ‘Offshore Renewable Energy Development Plan’ and any successor thereof including any associated domestic and international grid connection enhancements in line with RPO 10.24 IE6 Objective 4: To ensure that the design of energy networks achieves the least possible environmental impact and that where such impacts are inevitable, they are mitigated to the greatest possible extent. IE6 Objective 5: To protect existing infrastructure and strategic route corridors, where they have gone through appropriate social, environmental and cultural impact assessments, for identified energy networks from encroachment by development that might compromise the performance of the networks.
- SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2022-2028413Infrastructure and Environmental Services (IE) 11.6 Waste Management Waste Management is integral to sustainable development and is a key element of the circular economy, protecting public health and maintaining a high-quality environment. The Planning and Development Act (2000) (as amended) states that a development plan shall include objectives for waste recovery and disposal facilities. By virtue of Section 22(10A) of the Waste Management Acts (1996-2008), the objectives of the relevant Waste Management Plan are deemed to be included in the Development Plan. National and Regional policy on waste management is set out in a number of documents. These include the NPF, the RSES, the Regional Waste Management Plans, the National Climate Action Plan (2021) and the Government’s policy document A Waste Action Plan for a Circular Economy 2020-2025. These policy documents require a transition towards the creation of a circular economy, requiring the longterm use of materials, promoting recycling and re-use, and minimising waste at the end of the cycle. All of these documents and the policies and objectives which flow from them are consistent with the EU Waste Hierarchy approach to waste which endorses prevention, preparing for re-use, recycling, energy recovery and sustainable disposal. The Government’s Waste Action Plan for a Circular Economy 2020-2025 outlines the new focus which goes beyond simple management of waste and moves towards how we look at resources more broadly, thereby capturing the maximum value of all materials. The focus is on the circular economy approach. The Eastern Midlands Region Waste Management Plan 2015-2021 (EMRWMP) provides the framework for waste management in South Dublin and the Region. It sets out a strategic vision with a focus on viewing waste as a valuable resource. It seeks to make better use of current resources, reduce the leakage of material including energy, as the country transitions from a linear to a circular economy. Policy IE7: Waste Management Implement European Union, National and Regional waste and related environmental policy, legislation, guidance and codes of practice to improve management of material resources and wastes. IE7 Objective 1: To encourage a just transition from a waste management economy to a green circular economy to enhance employment and increase the value, recovery and recirculation of resources through compliance with the provisions of the Waste Action Plan for a Circular Economy 2020-2025 and to promote the use of, but not limited to, reverse vending machines and deposit return schemes or similar to ensure a wider and varying ways of recycling.
- SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2022-2028414Infrastructure and Environmental Services (IE) IE7 Objective 2: To support the implementation of the Eastern Midlands Region Waste Management Plan 2015-2021 or as amended by adhering to overarching performance targets, policies and policy actions. IE7 Objective 3: To provide for, promote and facilitate high quality sustainable waste recovery and disposal infrastructure / technology in keeping with the EU waste hierarchy and to adequately cater for a growing residential population and business sector. IE7 Objective 4: To provide for and maintain the network of bring infrastructure (for example, civic amenity facilities, bring banks) in the County to facilitate the recycling and recovery of hazardous and non-hazardous municipal wastes. IE7 Objective 5: To ensure the provision of adequately sized public recycling facilities in association with new commercial developments and in tandem with significant change of use / extensions of existing commercial developments where appropriate. IE7 Objective 6: To ensure that green waste centres are provided in suitable locations to augment the local house to house collection system for compostable waste. IE7 Objective 7: To require the appropriate provision for the sustainable management of waste within all developments, ensuring it is suitably designed into the development, including the provision of facilities for the storage, separation and collection of such waste. IE7 Objective 8: To adhere to the recommendations of the National Hazardous Waste Management Plan 2014-2020 and any subsequent plan, and to co-operate with other agencies including the EPA in the planning, organisation and supervision of the disposal of hazardous waste streams, including hazardous waste identified during construction and demolition projects. IE7 Objective 9: To support the development of indigenous capacity for the treatment of nonhazardous and hazardous wastes where technically, economically and environmentally practicable subject to the relevant environmental protection criteria for the planning and development of such activities being applied. 11.7 Environmental Quality: Air, Noise and Light Clean air is essential in ensuring a high-quality environment for the wellbeing of the residents and success of the economy of the County. It also plays a key role in managing climate action. The impact of noise on human health is increasingly being recognised by the World Health Organisation and others including the EU. As the world has urbanised, the level of light pollution has increased. Set out below are the
- SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2022-2028415Infrastructure and Environmental Services (IE) higher-level strategic policies in relation to air, noise and light. More detailed development management standards are set out in Chapter 12: Implementation and Monitoring. It is noted that air quality, noise and light pollution control are primarily covered within air, light and noise control legislation. 11.7.1 Air Ireland as an EU member state is obliged to implement EU Directive 2008 / 50 / EC on ambient air quality and cleaner air for Europe (also referred to as the CAFÉ Directive). These requirements were transposed into national legislation in Ireland by the Air Quality Standards Regulations 2011 (S.I.180 / 2011). Air quality monitoring stations collect data on ambient air levels assessed against European legal limit values and World Health Organisation guideline values. The network is managed by the EPA, in partnership with Local Authorities and other public / semi-state bodies and universities. The Council has a number of air quality monitoring stations in the County at Tallaght, Rathcoole and Walkinstown managed by the Environmental Health Team. Up to date information on air quality for the Dublin Area – which includes the four Dublin Local Authorities – together with the Air Quality Index for Health is available at www.epa.ie/ air/quality. 11.7.2 Noise The European Communities (Environmental Noise) Regulations (2018) (S.I. No. 549 of 2018), implements EC Directive 2002 / 49 / EC (END) on assessment and management of environmental noise in Ireland. The END requires Member States to prepare and publish, every 5 years, strategic noise maps and noise management action plans for transport noise sources (that is, roads, railways and airports) and industry. The Dublin Agglomeration Environmental Noise Action Plan 2018-2023 was developed jointly by the four Local Authorities in the Dublin Region in their role as designated Action Planning Authorities under Article 10 of the Environmental Noise Regulations (2006). The purpose of the Noise Action Plan is to avoid, prevent and reduce, where necessary, on a prioritised basis the harmful effects including annoyance, caused by long-term exposure to environmental noise. Under the Noise Regulations (2018), all Local Authorities will review strategic noise mapping of non- National major roads, that is, all roads with more than 3 million vehicle passages per year. The EPA is the national competent authority under the Regulations. Development Management Policies on noise are set out in Chapter 12: Implementation and Monitoring. 11.7.3 Light Adequate lighting is essential for a safe and secure environment. However, light spillage from excessive or poorly designed lighting is increasingly recognised as a
- SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2022-2028416Infrastructure and Environmental Services (IE) potential nuisance to surrounding properties and a threat to light-sensitive wildlife. Light pollution can be defined as wasted light. While South Dublin is significantly urbanised, it has large areas of rural and mountain character, including river corridors, which are particularly sensitive to light pollution. Where proposals for new lighting require planning consent, the Council will ensure that they are carefully and sensitively designed. Development proposals which include external lighting should ensure that the proposed lighting scheme is the minimum required for reasons of public safety and security; there is no light spillage above the horizon; there is no unacceptable adverse impact on neighbouring or nearby properties or on the surrounding countryside; there is no dazzling or distraction to road users including cyclists and pedestrians; and road and footway lighting meets the Council’s standards. Policy IE8: Environmental Quality Seek to take appropriate steps to reduce the effects of air, noise and light pollution on environmental quality and residential amenity in line with European, National and Regional policy and legislation. IE8 Objective 1: To implement the provisions of national and EU Directives on air and noise pollution and other relevant legislative requirements in conjunction with other agencies as appropriate, consistent with RPO 10.10 of the RSES. IE8 Objective 2: To co-operate with the EPA and TII in the maintenance of a Dublin ambient air quality monitoring network. IE8 Objective 3: To implement the recommendations of the Dublin Region Air Quality Plan 2021 to protect people from the harmful health effects associated with air pollution, to preserve good air quality where it exists and to improve air quality where it is unsatisfactory. IE8 Objective 4: To implement the relevant spatial planning recommendations and actions of the Dublin Agglomeration Environmental Noise Action Plan 2018-2023 or any superseding action plan. IE8 Objective 5: To ensure that future developments are designed and constructed to minimise noise disturbance and take into account the multi-functional uses of streets including movement and recreation as detailed in the Urban Design Manual (2009) and the Design Manual for Urban Roads and Streets (2013, updated 2019).
- SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2022-2028417Infrastructure and Environmental Services (IE) IE8 Objective 6: To ensure external lighting schemes minimise light spillage or pollution in the immediate surrounding environment and do not adversely impact on residential or visual amenity and biodiversity in the surrounding areas having regard to the Institute of Lighting Engineers’ Guidance Notes for the Reduction of Light Pollution (UK). (see section 12.11.4 (iii)). IE8 Objective 7: To ensure that noise sensitive development in proximity to national and other roads provides a noise impact assessment and includes appropriate mitigation measures, such as noise barriers, set back landscaping and / or buffer zones between areas of land where development is proposed and existing and proposed national and other roads. IE8 Objective 8: To work alongside relevant stakeholders NTA, TII, EPA to promote and improve safer noise protection infrastructure in line with population growth and traffic increases along all our national roads. 11.8 Airports and Aerodromes This section sets out the general restrictions and requirements on development within the County for Dublin Airport, Casement Aerodrome and Weston Airport. The safeguarding requirements in the vicinity of civil aerodromes located in South Dublin (Dublin Airport and Weston Airport) are set out in: a. International Standards and Recommended Practices’ within Annex 14 to the Convention on International Civil Aviation, which is published by the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) and the Irish Aviation Authority Guidance Material on Aerodrome Annex 14 Surfaces (2015); b. Certification Specifications & Guidance Material for Aerodromes Design published in 2017 by the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA). Safeguarding is dealt with in more detail in Chapter 12: Implementation and Monitoring. Casement Aerodrome is a fully equipped military base and includes the main centre for Air Corps Operations. Its operations and requirements are dealt with by the Department of Defence. This section also addresses policy and objectives relating to airport noise and public safety issues relating to the operation of the airports and aerodromes within South Dublin, while also providing information on helipads within the County. 11.8.1 National Aviation Policy National aviation policy highlights the importance of air transport for trade, inward investment and tourism. The National Aviation Policy for Ireland (2015) published by
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