First we remind you that last year the High Court quashed planning permission awarded by An Bord Pleanala for the former Western Marine site at Bullock Harbour. The effect of this is that An Bord Pleanala must now make a new decision on the Western Marine /Bartra site. This is awaited.
However in order to protect Bullock Harbour in any future proposals under the forthcoming 2022-2028 County Development Plan (CDP) the committee of Bullock Harbour Preservation Assocation has been active this year in seeking two changes to the draft CDP. The first change would add a limitation to the W Zoning to omit any form of residential use on the former Western Marine site. The second change would re-word the current Bullock strategic local objective (now SLO28 in the draft plan) to give greater emphasis to the “special nature of the area” and to remove the assumption of residential development.
We have briefed Dun Laoghaire Rathdown councillors on the issues around Bullock Harbour and the adjacent area, including the extreme flooding to which Bullock is vulnerable. We continue to enjoy cross party support for the Bullock campaign and for these changes to the County Development Plan. Six motions have been put by councillors from various parties endeavouring to make these changes. These motions come up for debate at special Council meetings taking place this week and next and are listed below.
These are just six motions of the very many development plan motions that councillors will be voting on in coming days (we believe on Thursday 14 October 2021 but possibly into next week) and they could easily be overlooked. Please therefore write to your local councillors asking them to vote for these motions, along the lines of “Please vote for County Development Plan motions 146, 147, 153, 180 181 and 182 on Bullock Harbour to remove residential use from Bullock’s zoning, and to re-word draft SLO28 to give greater emphasis to the “special nature of the area” and remove the assumption of residential development”. A short email is best. You can find the email addresses of your DLR councillors at the end of this post.
We have only just been notified of the motions and their reference numbers and therefore ask our supporters to write immediately.
We thank all the supporters of Bullock Harbour.
Draft CDP motions referring to Bullock – October 2021
146. Councillor L. Hall That this Planning Authority pursuant to Section 12 (6) of the Planning and Development Act 2000 (as amended) removes “Residential Development” from the list of developments “Open to Consideration” for W zoning at Bullock Harbour, where there is demonstrable evidence of overtopping.
147. Councillor L. Hall That this Planning Authority pursuant to Section 12 (6) of the Planning and Development Act 2000 (as amended) ensures that any W development at Bullock Harbour shall have regard to the special nature of the area in terms of the height, scale, architecture and density of built form and shall comprise commercial marine-based activity and public water-based recreational uses, and shall consider flood risk.
153. Councillor M. Halpin That this Planning Authority pursuant to Section 12 (6) of the Planning and Development Act 2000 (as amended) resolves to amend the Draft Development Plan as follows – To amend page 304, to include a new line in table 13.1.1- J – To protect and improve coastal amenities To amend page 310 to include a new table 13.1.20 ZONING OBJECTIVE ‘J’ “To improve coastal amenities” Permitted in Principle Open Space, Recreational Facility*/Sports Club, Marine Leisure facility, community facility Open for Consideration Cultural Use, Public Services. *Recreational use of the coast; Recreational buildings including restaurant use To amend Map 4 to include a new colour for Objective J in the Key To amend Map 4 where the green colour for Bulloch Harbour is replaced by the new colour denoting Objective J.
180. Councillor J. Moylan That this Planning Authority pursuant to Section 12 (6) of the Planning and Development Act 2000 (as amended) resolves to amend the Draft Development Plan as follows – SLO 28 [Bullock Harbour] to be amended to read that ‘any development shall have regard to the special nature of the area in terms of the height, scale, architecture and density of built form and shall comprise commercial marine-based activity and public water-based recreational uses, and shall only comprise uses that are compatible with the flooding to which the site is subject and that Bullock harbour and its environs will be offered the same level of protection as its neighbouring harbour, Sandycove harbour in terms of any potential future residential development application that may be ‘open for consideration’ under W zoning.’
181. Councillors C. Smyth, J. O’Connell, and D. O’Callaghan That this Planning Authority pursuant to Section 12 (6) of the Planning and Development Act 2000 (as amended) resolves to amend the Draft Development Plan as follows – Amend the SLO number 28 for Bullock Harbour to remove the following text “residential”.
182. Councillor M. Halpin That this Planning Authority pursuant to Section 12 (6) of the Planning and Development Act 2000 (as amended) resolves to amend the Draft Development Plan as follows – To amend page 321 SLO 28 to read as follows – Bullock Harbour – Any development shall have regard to the special nature of the area in terms of the height, scale, architecture and density of built form and shall comprise commercial marine-based activity and public water-based recreational uses, and shall only comprise 34 uses that are compatible with the flooding (including wave over-topping) to which the site is subject”.
DUN LAOGHAIRE RATHDOWN COUNTY COUNCILLORS
Dun Laoghaire Area
Mary Fayne mfayne@cllr.dlrcoco.ie Fine Gael
Lorraine Hall lhall@cllr.dlrcoco.ie Fine Gael
Melissa Halpin mhalpin@cllr.dlrcoco.ie Solidarity – People before Profit
Tom Kivlehan tkivlehan@cllr.dlrcoco.ie Green Party
Justin Moylan jmoylan@cllr.dlrcoco.ie Fianna Fáil
Juliet O’Connell joconnell@cllr.dlrcoco.ie Labour
Dave Quinn dquinn@cllr.dlrcoco.ie Social Democrats
Blackrock Area
Marie Baker mbaker@cllr.dlrcoco.ie Fine Gael
Maurice Dockrell mdockrell@cllr.dlrcoco.ie Fine Gael
Martha Fanning mfanning@cllr.dlrcoco.ie Labour
Kate Feeney kfeeney@cllr.dlrcoco.ie Fianna Fáil
Mary Hanafin mhanafin@cllr.dlrcoco.ie Fianna Fáil
Séafra Ó Faoláin sofaolain@cllr.dlrcoco.ie Green Party
Killiney-Shankill Area
Michael Clark mclark@cllr.dlrcoco.ie Independent
Jim Gildea jgildea@cllr.dlrcoco.ie Fine Gael
Hugh Lewis hlewis@cllr.dlrcoco.ie Solidarity – People before Profit
Frank McNamara fmcnamara@cllr.dlrcoco.ie Fine Gael
Denis O’Callaghan denisoc@cllr.dlrcoco.ie Labour
Una Power unapower@cllr.dlrcoco.ie Green Party
Carrie Smyth carriesmyth@cllr.dlrcoco.ie Labour
Stillorgan Area
Deirdre Donnelly ddonnelly@cllr.dlrcoco.ie Independent
Eva-Elizabeth Dowling edowling@cllr.dlrcoco.ie Green Party
John Kennedy jkennedy@cllr.dlrcoco.i Fine Gael
Maeve O’Connell moconnell@cllr.dlrcoco.ie Fine Gael
Barry Saul bsaul@cllr.dlrcoco.ie Fine Gael
Dónal Smith dsmith@cllr.dlrcoco.ie Fianna Fáil
Dundrum Area
Shay Brennan sbrennan@cllr.dlrcoco.ie Fianna Fáil
Anne Colgan acolgan@cllr.dlrcoco.ie Independent
Daniel Dunne ddunne@cllr.dlrcoco.ie Green Party
Anna Grainger agrainger@cllr.dlrcoco.ie Fine Gael
Sean McLoughlin smcloughlin@cllr.dlrcoco.ie Independent
Peter O’Brien pobrien@cllr.dlrcoco.ie Labour
Jim O’Leary joleary@cllr.dlrcoco.ie Fine Gael
Glencullen Area
Kazi Ahmed kahmed@cllr.dlrcoco.ie Fine Gael
Emma Blain eblain@cllr.dlrcoco.ie Fine Gael
Michael Fleming mfleming@cllr.dlrcoco.ie Independent
Patricia Kinsella pkinsella@cllr.dlrcoco.ie Independent
Lettie McCarthy lmccarthy@cllr.dlrcoco.ie Labour
Tom Murphy tmurphy@cllr.dlrcoco.ie Fianna Fáil
Oisín O’Connor ooconnor@cllr.dlrcoco.ie Green Party
Bullock Harbour 