S.I. No. 604/2015 - Planning and Development Act 2000 (Designation of Strategic Development Zone: Balgaddy-Clonburris, South Dublin County) Order 2015.

Notice of the making of this Statutory Instrument was published in

“Iris Oifigiúil” of 25th December, 2015.

The Government, pursuant to a proposal by the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government, being of the opinion that the development specified in Article 4 of the following Order is of economic and social importance to the State, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by section 166 of the Planning and Development Act 2000 (No. 30 of 2000), hereby order as follows:

1. (1) This Order may be cited as the Planning and Development Act 2000 (Designation of Strategic Development Zone: Balgaddy-Clonburris, South Dublin County) Order 2015.

(2) This Order comes into operation on 25 December 2015.

2. In this Order—

“Act” means the Planning and Development Act 2000 ;

“Greater Dublin Area” means the city of Dublin and the administrative counties of Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown, Fingal, Kildare, Meath, South Dublin and Wicklow.

4. The area shown as the “designated area” on the map titled “Proposed Strategic Development Zone at Balgaddy-Clonburris, South Dublin County” dated November 2015 and attached to this Order is designated as a site for the establishment of a strategic development zone in accordance with the provisions of Part IX of the Act for residential development and the provision of schools and other educational facilities, commercial activities, including employment office, hotel, leisure and retail facilities, rail infrastructure, emergency services and the provision of community facilities as referred to in Part III of the First Schedule to the Act, including health and childcare services.

5. The site referred to in Article 4 has been designated for the establishment of a strategic development zone for the development specified in that Article, taking into consideration the deficiency in the supply of housing nationally and in the Greater Dublin Area particularly, the number and phasing of the housing units which would be delivered by the inclusion of the lands within a strategic development zone, the potential for comprehensive planning and development of the site due to its scale and configuration, the efficient use of public investment in infrastructural facilities, including public transport, water, waste water and roads and that development of the site will help give effect to the policies in the Regional Planning Guidelines for the Greater Dublin Area 2004-2016.

6. The development agency specified for the purposes of section 168 of the Act is South Dublin County Council.

7. The Planning and Development Act 2000 (Designation of Strategic Development Zone: Balgaddy-Clonburris, South Dublin County) Order 2006 ( S.I. No. 442 of 2006 ) is revoked.

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Government,

15 December 2015.

ENDA KENNY,

Taoiseach.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Instrument and does not purport to be a legal interpretation.)

The effect of this Order is to revoke the 2006 Government Order (SI 442 of 2006) that designated 180 hectares of land at Clonburris as a Strategic Development Zone (SDZ) and make an order for the Clonburris SDZ that has the effect of extending the SDZ boundary northwards and westwards to include an additional 100 hectares of land in accordance with the provisions of Part IX of the Planning and Development Act 2000 , as amended.