Draft Minutes 13th Oct - Fingal County Council
Draft Minutes 13th Oct - Fingal County Council
Draft Minutes 13th Oct - Fingal County Council
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2040<br />
Regional Planning Guidelines for the Greater Dublin Area (5.2.2). The inclusion in<br />
the <strong>Fingal</strong> Development Plan of objectives facilitating the development of rural<br />
housing outside of the provisions of the rural settlement strategy would thus run<br />
counter to national and regional policy.<br />
Finally, Strategic Policy No. 12, adopted by the <strong>Council</strong> in <strong>Oct</strong>ober 2009, is to:<br />
Provide viable options for the retention of the rural community by the promotion<br />
of a controlled growth of the rural villages and clusters balanced with careful<br />
restriction of residential development in the countryside.<br />
The current and proposed rural settlement strategies provide for the<br />
implementation of this Strategic Policy. The exemption of certain sites from<br />
compliance with the settlement strategy would undermine the Strategic Policy<br />
and lead to an increase in the number of houses being developed in the rural area<br />
and inappropriate and unsustainable settlement patterns, giving rise to problems<br />
which include:<br />
• Threats to surface water and ground water quality from private waste<br />
water treatment systems, having regard in particular to the poor<br />
percolation characteristics of much of <strong>Fingal</strong>’s soil;<br />
• Unsustainable car dependent commuting patterns;<br />
• High costs of public services in comparison to more consolidated<br />
development patterns;<br />
• Erosion of the rural character and visual quality of the countryside and of<br />
the potential of the rural landscape as a resource for tourism;<br />
• Extensive land take (minimum 0.2 ha per house) resulting in the loss of<br />
farming land and food production capacity;<br />
• Undermining of the viability of normal farming activities (see NSS);<br />
• Compromising of routes and locations for infrastructure including wind<br />
energy (see NSS);<br />
• Loss of biodiversity.<br />
RECOMMENDATION:<br />
RECOMMENDATION:<br />
No change.”<br />
Following discussion the Motion was put and on a division the voting resulted as<br />
follows:<br />
For: For: 12 ( (Twelve (<br />
Twelve Twelve) Twelve<br />
Against: Against: 11 ( (Eleven (<br />
Eleven Eleven) Eleven<br />
Abstain: Abstain: 1 ( (One (<br />
One One) One<br />
For: For: <strong>Council</strong>lors <strong>Council</strong>lors Butler, Dennison, Devitt, Farrell KK.,<br />
K<br />
, , Kelleher,<br />
McGuinness, McGuinness, McGuire, McGuire, McKeon, McKeon, Murray, Murray, O’Leary.<br />
O’Leary.<br />
O’Brien, O’Brien, O’Connor,<br />
O’Connor,