This submission is made by Sustainable Skerries, a committee of the Skerries Community Association. Our view is that any development needs to be not only sustainable, but regenerative. While we have consulted with local residents to inform our views, we do not intend to speak for “the” Skerries community.
We are pleased to see that the latest draft has taken into account many of the comments addressed in our previous submission such as the need to support and encourage organic and regenerative farming, the need for surfaces in new developments to be water permeable, nature-based flood mitigation measures, the creation of community bike and car-sharing initiatives, and the cessation of development in areas impacts by sea level rise and coastal erosion. We further welcome the inclusion of changes suggested by councillors including the removal of allotments as an example of rewilding, the inclusion of the 15 minute town, car-free neighbourhoods and the increased target of open space to 18%. The overall draft plan as published appears to be a comprehensive and well thought out document on which Fingal should be complimented. There are, however, a number of outstanding points of concern that we would like to raise in relation to the following chapters of the draft FDP.
As we outline in our submission below, we would welcome the inclusion of greater detail on timelines /delivery dates, definition of certain terms, and more explicit examples for many of the objectives presented across the plan.
Thank you for taking the time to consider our submission.