Two county councillors say they have no recollection of zoning lands in areas prone to flooding along the Dingle Peninsula. Fine Gael’s Seamus Cosaí Fitzgerald and Breandán Fitzgerald of Fianna Fáil, who are both councillors for Dingle, were responding to criticism from the Office of the Planning Regulator. The State’s planning watchdog criticised proposals by […]
Watchdog criticises plans to rezone land prone to flooding in several towns on Dingle peninsula
It also expressed concern that the council had failed to carry out proper flood risk assessment of other proposed rezoning of sites. By Seán McCárthaigh Wednesday 17 Feb 2021, 11:36 AM Feb 17th 2021, 11:36 AM 16,910 Views 8 Comments
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Image: Shutterstock/D. Ribeiro
PROPOSALS BY KERRY County Council to rezone lands prone to flooding in several towns on the Dingle Peninsula have been criticised by the State’s planning watchdog.
The Office of the Planning Regulator has called on the council to justify its proposed changes to the draft local area plan for the Corca Dhuibhne area as it claimed sites in Castlegregory, Castlemaine and Dingle are being zoned for “highly vulnerable uses” in flood ris
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Cork s Kildare Village project dealt planning blow
A €100 million Cork Tourist Outlet Village is proposed for the Carrigtwohill area.
Thu, 24 Dec, 2020 - 14:30
Greg Murphy with additional reporting from Eoin English
Efforts to develop a Kildare Village-style outlet on the outskirts of Cork City have been dealt a blow after the Minister for Housing Local Government and Heritage intervened in a planning row.
Peter Burke has directed that a variation to the 2014 Cork county development plan be deleted, saying it was inconsistent with the guidelines published in 2012.
Cork county councillors voted in favour of a controversial variation to the plan to facilitate such a project and triggering intervention by the Office of the Planning Regulator (OPR).
101 submissions were received relating to this plan during the public consultation period.
A number of amendments, based on the submissions made, were discussed and voted on by the Castleisland Corca Dhuibhne Municipal District councillors at an online meeting.
This was a historical meeting, as it was the first vote on a Local Area Plan to take place online.
A submission made by the Office of the Planning Regulator recommended that plans to zone an area at Ballybeg, Dingle as residential land wouldn’t proceed, unless a comprehensive, evidence-based justification for its inclusion was provided; it suggested prioritising lands nearer the town centre.