{"id":1550,"date":"2023-04-27T13:16:54","date_gmt":"2023-04-27T13:16:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davidhealy.com\/?p=1550"},"modified":"2024-05-01T09:34:55","modified_gmt":"2024-05-01T09:34:55","slug":"our-observation-on-proposed-draft-direction-to-delete-noise-insulation-objective-from-fingal-development-plan-make-your-observation-by-tuesday-2nd-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidhealy.com\/?p=1550","title":{"rendered":"Our observation on proposed draft direction to delete noise insulation objective from Fingal Development Plan; make your observation by Tuesday 2nd May!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Following advice from the Planning Regulator, the Minister of State for Local Government and Planning has drafted a Direction to Fingal County Council to delete a provision about noise insulation included in the Plan. The Draft Direction is open to <a href=\"https:\/\/consult.fingal.ie\/en\/consultation\/draft-ministerial-direction-accordance-section-317-planning-development-act-2000-amended-making\">public consultatio<\/a><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/consult.fingal.ie\/en\/consultation\/draft-ministerial-direction-accordance-section-317-planning-development-act-2000-amended-making\" target=\"_blank\">n<\/a> until Tuesday 2nd May 2023 at 11.59pm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 5 Green Councillors on Fingal County Council have made an <a href=\"https:\/\/davidhealy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Submission-in-relation-to-proposed-direction-to-delete-an-Objective-1.pdf\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/davidhealy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Submission-in-relation-to-proposed-direction-to-delete-an-Objective-1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">observation <\/a>pointing out that there is no legal basis for the draft direction and that the provisions were included to protect human health.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1600\" height=\"800\" class=\"wp-image-1553\" style=\"width: 600px;\" src=\"https:\/\/davidhealy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Dublin-Airport-Noise-2000x1000-1600x800-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/davidhealy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Dublin-Airport-Noise-2000x1000-1600x800-1.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/davidhealy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Dublin-Airport-Noise-2000x1000-1600x800-1-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/davidhealy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Dublin-Airport-Noise-2000x1000-1600x800-1-1024x512.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/davidhealy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Dublin-Airport-Noise-2000x1000-1600x800-1-768x384.jpg 768w, https:\/\/davidhealy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Dublin-Airport-Noise-2000x1000-1600x800-1-1536x768.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/davidhealy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Dublin-Airport-Noise-2000x1000-1600x800-1-624x312.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The objective, agreed by unanimous vote of the Council, specifies that insulation for homes affected by aircraft noise should achieve 40 dB Lnight, which is <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/europe\/publications\/i\/item\/9789289053563\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/europe\/publications\/i\/item\/9789289053563\" target=\"_blank\">the standard recommended by the World Health Organisation<\/a> to protect people from the impact on health caused by sleep disruption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyone affected by aircraft noise should <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/consult.fingal.ie\/en\/consultation\/draft-ministerial-direction-accordance-section-317-planning-development-act-2000-amended-making\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/consult.fingal.ie\/en\/consultation\/draft-ministerial-direction-accordance-section-317-planning-development-act-2000-amended-making\" target=\"_blank\">make their views known<\/a> before the deadline.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following advice from the Planning Regulator, the Minister of State for Local Government and Planning has drafted a Direction to Fingal County Council to delete a provision about noise insulation included in the Plan. The Draft Direction is open to public consultation until Tuesday 2nd May 2023 at 11.59pm. The 5 Green Councillors on Fingal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[83,84],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidhealy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1550"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidhealy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidhealy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidhealy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidhealy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1550"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/davidhealy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1558,"href":"https:\/\/davidhealy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1550\/revisions\/1558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidhealy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidhealy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidhealy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}