My comments are here. I strongly support the application, but I have asked An Bord Pleanála to make some important changes, including

• reducing the very large area of car parking planned (2x the size of the Racecourse shops car park plus an extra “overflow” car park);
• providing low level lighting like that on the existing greenway instead of 6m high lights;
• ensuring that the bridges don’t become dangerously icy like the existing greenway bridge;
• putting resources into planting rather than corten steel objects.

A report on current progress with the Greenway from Malahide to Donabate, given at this month’s Area Committee meeting.

My response to the Department of Housing’s consultation on draft Development Plan Guidelines asks the Department not to try to prevent local authorities using the planning system to drive the decarbonisation process.

It refers to this article on Fingal’s successful energy standards innovation at a local level, where Fingal led Ireland to higher building energy standards.