The Land Development Agency which bought the undeveloped land at Stapolin last year has opened a public consultation (archived) in relation to its proposals to amend the existing planning permission for the part of the Stapolin area which will include the permanent access to Clongriffin train station. The consultation includes drop-in events at Racecourse Community Centre today and next Wednesday from 5 to 8 pm.

The information supplied to date is quite general but the LDA have made a detailed proposal to Fingal County Council in the Large Scale Residential Development process, which unfortunately isn’t publicly available. I have asked them for these document and submitted a request to them under the Access to Information on the Environment Regulations.

The Council Executive have put proposals on public display for parking charges on Harbour Road Howth. The proposal is to charge €1.70/hr, with a 3 hour time limit. The large car-parking areas at the Harbour are managed by the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, who have previously indicated that they would cooperate with Fingal in regulating parking. However, they’re not involved in the current proposal.

I have submitted a response to the consultation. It goes into detail on

• the need to cooperate with the Department / Harbourmaster in developing an integrated scheme,
• the need to extend the scheme over the areas currently affected by excessive parking demand or which will suffer from displaced car parking
• the need to address safety issues and improve conditions for people walking in Howth.

The proposal currently on display was brought to the Area Committee in early March. Feedback was given by councillors but this isn’t reflected in the proposal. The meeting can be watched at https://fingalcoco.public-i.tv/core/portal/webcast_interactive/1064576/start_time/120000?force_language_code=en_GB.