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FIN-C453-1254
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Siobhan Clifford

Appendix 11: FCC SUDS Guidance - Green/Blue Infrastructure for Development

Whilst the conclusion in this content states that resulting from this Development Plan 2023-29,there will be:-

"no likely significant effects on Natura 2000 sites in Fingal and its environs"

......we local longtime residents and Volunteers with Howth Pathways,Friends of Balscadden Beach & Howth Tidy Towns are acutely aware of the health of ecosystems on our Peninsula.We feel the above to be inaccurate.The growing footfall along the coastal route is already a concern..The adverse affects on all aspects of local ecosystems whilst constructing 6 proposed developments of 1051 residences and the multiple number of trucks delivering and removing material through Sutton Cross daily for an expected 3 years is undeniably set to have notable negative impact on this unique beautiful peninsula. In its Howth Castle Deveelopment Plans,WSHI Ltd say they expect 1000 visitors a day to their redesigned Castle area..The 2000 expected extra residents in the Peninsula + the realistic fact that they will own cars will add to a negative impact on biodiversity.According to The UN Environmental Programme-40% of annual carbon emissions are accounted for by the construction sector and the built environment.

Ireland along with the International Community has had no choice but to implement a NBAP to combat global crisis and restore national local ecosystems and sustainability

Howth Tidy Towns has collaborated wth FCC in forming and implementing Fingal BAP.

To quote your Development Plan in this section -P.51

"....to ensure that international targets for sites,species and habitats are translated into effective action at local level"- as regards this, we,the local volunteers look forward to "developing effective partnerships" with you so these "targets...are translated into effective action"..Please contact us immediately to start these effective partnerships.

Myself and my family also support every submission by the local groups Hillwatch and SAAO who are ever vigilant of encroaching developments onto or too proximate to The SAC,SPA and buffer zones.These encroaching Developmers' submissions currently include:_

* Tetrarch Submission on Deerpark lands for affordable housing & Senior residences

* Blackwood Devs Ltd Submission to build 5 houses off Thormanby Road

We call upon all Councillors and Planners to immediately oppose the rezoning of amenity lands.We are shocked to see these submissions promoting loss of amenity land as if this will of benefit the community!!?? Again these submissions use the terminology of the Development Plan,National & Regional Strategies to disguise their true intent to landgrab our amenity land for massive personal financial gain..We the people of the Peninsula will call out this onslaught of greedy land grabbing and fight to keep much needed amenity areas for the common good.

TD and former local councillor Cian O'Callaghan must be commended for his recent honest appraisal of one such developer's proposal:-

"Tetrarch's formulation of words doesn't carry any weight...there is no zoning just for accomodation for older people or affordable homes only.There is little appetite locally or within the Council to rezone what are valued amenity spaces.The electoral area has already seen the delivery of more housing than any other in the country in recent years,"