My observation on Phase 1F of this development south of Station Road in Portmarnock focuses on the following:

• the urgent need to improve walking and cycling infrastructure in all directions from this area
• designing the new neighbourhood to prioritise walking and cycling, including by
  • clustering the car parking in one location
  • creating residential streets oriented towards walking and cycling rather than acting as car parking access routes
  • filtered permeability
  • designing residential streets which are shared between cycling and occasional vehicles rather than a separate cycletrack.
• not materially contravening the Fingal Development Plan limit on car parking
• providing for the childcare needs of the existing and future residents

An Coimisiún Pleanála have accepted that they should have circulated the applicant’s response to my planning appeal to me for comment and conceded the legal challenge I took against them.

They will now reconsider the file and enable me to make a submission on the applicant’s response to my appeal.

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