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18 May '17
Motion

To relocate the proposed commercial buffer adjacent to South Bank Road so it is parallel with the River Liffey.

Reference: submission by Brendan Buck, Rushfleet Ltd.

Reason: The use of South Bank Road’s position and alignment as the basis for the location of the buffer should be disregarded as it has no basis in land use planning terms. The commercial buffer should instead be provided on a north-south and east-west axis and should act as a buffer of commercial and mixed use development in a block layout form in area B1. The movement of the buffer zone to North of Southbank Road increases the residential capacity for areas A1 and A2.

Against:

The proposed relocation of the buffer zone to the north would: shift the substantial quantum of commercial development proposed within the Draft
SDZ Planning Scheme into lands under the ownership of Dublin Port, and undermine
Dublin Ports operations and growth;
conflict with Dublin Ports Masterplan; result in the western and southern portions of the Buffer being located within the South Port Access Road/Eastern By-Pass Corridor reservation, with the result that there may be no building to act as a buffer; It is unlikely that the 80,000-100,000sqm of commercial development proposed within the SDZ Planning Scheme could be delivered in these circumstances and will result in a poorly delivered scheme.

The failure to deliver the ‘Commercial Buffer’ and the associated the built or ‘shield’ element will result in further conflicts with the Key Principles of the SDZ, notably Section 2.4.2 notably Section 2.3.1 ‘Create a Sustainable Neighbourhood’ and Section 2.4.3 ‘Protect and Enhance the Amenity of Residents’.

Failed by rollcall vote
  • Daithí Doolan
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  • Pembroke-South Dock
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For
19 councillors
  • Chris Andrews
  • Cathleen Carney Boud
  • Janice Boylan
  • Christy Burke
  • Anthony Connaghan
  • Daithí Doolan
  • Gaye Fagan
  • Mannix Flynn
  • Vincent Jackson
  • Andrew Keegan
  • Greg Kelly
  • John Lyons
  • Paul McAuliffe
  • Ray McHugh
  • Edel Moran
  • Emma Murphy
  • Ciarán O'Moore
  • Larry O'Toole
  • Noeleen Reilly
Against
29 councillors
  • Kieran Binchy
  • Tom Brabazon
  • Claire Byrne
  • Brendan Carr
  • Patrick Costello
  • Ciarán Cuffe
  • Pat Dunne
  • Anne Feeney
  • Declan Flanagan
  • Alison Gilliland
  • Deirdre Heney
  • Jane Horgan-Jones
  • Teresa Keegan
  • Frank Kennedy
  • Dermot Lacey
  • Seán Paul Mahon
  • Ray McAdam
  • Paddy McCartan
  • Ruairí McGinley
  • Séamas McGrattan
  • Andrew Montague
  • Rebecca Moynihan
  • Naoise Ó Muirí
  • Michael Mullooly
  • Claire O'Connor
  • Nial Ring
  • Éilis Ryan
  • Norma Sammon
  • Paddy Smyth
Abstain
3 councillors
  • Críona Ní Dhálaigh
  • Mícheál Mac Donncha
  • Tina MacVeigh