Draft Minutes 13th Oct - Fingal County Council

1996
It was proposed by Councillor K. Farrell, seconded by Councillor D. O’Connor:
“Fingal County Council resolves that the lands at KILLOUGHER, NAUL, outlined in
red on the attached map and signed by the proposer for identification purposes be
designated with the following local objective “to provide for one house only,
sensitively designed and located on site” in the Fingal Development Plan 2011-
2017.
The following report by the Manager which had been circulated was
CONSIDERED
CONSIDERED:
CONSIDERED
“The site is zoned RU in the Draft Development Plan and has an area of some 0.42
ha. The site is located within an open field with two houses located in the south
east corner.
There is one planning application on the subject site F00A/0313 (Durnan) for a
single house which was refused due to the applicant’s non-compliance with the
rural housing policy and substandard road network. The existing 2 houses were
granted to members of the applicant’s family.
The rural settlement strategy in the Draft Plan reflects the policy adopted by the
Council on the 3 rd April 2007, following a lengthy process of careful consideration
and public consultation. The policy as it now stands recognises the need to
provide for housing for the rural community but limits the amount of housing in
the open countryside and provides for alternative options within the rural area
either in the villages or rural clusters as a more sustainable and suitable location
for rural generated housing. Areas which are particularly sensitive to ongoing
incremental housing growth, i.e. the Greenbelt and High Amenity zoned areas, are
limited to more essential needs with the broader rural community who wish to
remain in the rural area qualifying for housing in villages and rural clusters.
Allowing certain individuals to be excluded from this policy would contradict this
overall approach.
This motion would unfairly allow certain individuals to be favourably treated in
comparison to all other families with connections within the rural area.
The motion if adopted would allow the sale of the site on the open market, thereby
opening up the possibility of urban-generated housing development on the site.
Government policy as articulated by the National Spatial Strategy and the
Sustainable Rural Housing: Guidelines for Planning Authorities of April 2005,
classifies the rural area of Fingal as “an area under strong urban influence”
where the housing requirements of the rural community should be facilitated but
urban-generated housing should be directed to areas zoned for new residential