Fingal County Council is currently preparing the County Development Plan to run from 2017 to 2023. The Draft Plan was on public display between February and April 2016 and a report on the over 900 responses received was supplied to Councillors at the end of July.

As Councillors we had until yesterday, 6th September, to draft proposals to amend the Plan based on the public consultation.  Those  amendments which the Council agrees to will go on public display in November.

I submitted amendments to a wide range of topics in the plan. A copy of my proposed amendments is here. In order to make them easy to navigate I have grouped them into the following topics:

• On Special Amenity Area Order and Dublin Bay Biosphere Reserve
• On cycle pedestrian routes to be added to the map
• On public transport reservation from Clongriffin/Portmarnock – Balgriffin – Belcamp – Clonshaugh to metro reservations south of Dublin Airport
• In relation to the Moyne Road bypass proposal based on discussions at the previous stage of the Development Plan and in response to submissions by the developer of the adjoining residentially zoned land and Portmarnock Community Association
• On the zoning of the industrial estates beside Howth Junction railway station based on issues I raised at the previous stage of the Plan and a submission from a local business.
• On the process for sub-county level plans based on the experience of Fingal councillors and citizens as well as submissions from public authorities including the National Transport Authority
• Based on Fáilte Ireland’s submission
• In relation to the circular economy and sustainable resource use
• In response to the submission by Keep Ireland Open, Fáilte Ireland and others concerned with access to the countryside
• Based on concerns about Fingal’s approach to open space in high density development, an issue raised both by developers and residents
• On the transition to a low carbon climate resilient economy, a legal obligation of the Plan under the Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Act and raised in a range of submissions
• On adaptation to climate change
• On Ecosystem Services Approach
• Transport motions based on a range of submissions by local road users and public transport users and the NTA
• Motion incorporating text from the Dublin City Development plan in relation to cycle parking as recommended by the submission from the National Transport Authority
• In relation to cycling in response to a wide range of submissions seeking better and safer cycling insfrastructure.
• Based on text in the National Cycling Policy Framework, to which some of the submissions refer.