Draft Minutes 13th Oct - Fingal County Council

2016
Finally, Strategic Policy No. 12, adopted by the Council in October 2009, is to:
Provide viable options for the retention of the rural community by the promotion
of a controlled growth of the rural villages and clusters balanced with careful
restriction of residential development in the countryside.
The current and proposed rural settlement strategies provide for the
implementation of this Strategic Policy. The exemption of certain sites from
compliance with the settlement strategy would undermine the Strategic Policy
and lead to an increase in the number of houses being developed in the rural area
and inappropriate and unsustainable settlement patterns, giving rise to problems
which include:
• Threats to surface water and ground water quality from private waste
water treatment systems, having regard in particular to the poor
percolation characteristics of much of Fingal’s soil;
• Unsustainable car dependent commuting patterns;
• High costs of public services in comparison to more consolidated
development patterns;
• Erosion of the rural character and visual quality of the countryside and of
the potential of the rural landscape as a resource for tourism;
• Extensive land take (minimum 0.2 ha per house) resulting in the loss of
farming land and food production capacity;
• Undermining of the viability of normal farming activities (see NSS);
• Compromising of routes and locations for infrastructure including wind
energy (see NSS);
• Loss of biodiversity.
RECOMMENDATION:
RECOMMENDATION:
No change.”
Following discussion the Motion was put and on a division the voting resulted as
follows:
For: For: 8 8 ( (Eight (
Eight Eight) Eight
Against: Against: 15 15 ( (Fifteen ( Fifteen Fifteen) Fifteen
For: For: Councillors Councillors Butler, Butler, Devitt, Devitt, Farrell Farrell AA.,
A , Kelle Kelleher, Kelle
her, McGuire, McKeon,
O’Brien, O’Brien, O’Leary.
O’Leary.
Against: Against: Councillors Councillors Byrne, Coppinger, Coyle, Daly, Dennison, Dennison, Farrell Farrell KK.,
K
,
Hamill, Hamill, Loftus, Loftus, McGuinness, McGuinness, Murray, Murray, Nulty, Nulty, O’Callaghan, O’Callaghan, O’Connor,
O’Connor,
O’Donovan, O’Donovan, Waine.
Waine.
The Mayor, Councillor K. Farrell declared the Motion LO LOST. LO ST.