Submission on behalf of Cllr Daniel Whooley, Cllr Pamela Conroy and Roderic O'Gorman TD

The number of allotments in the County should be doubled over the plan's lifetime.

Nature Development Areas should be zoned as Open Space (OS), High Amenity (HA) or Greenbelt (GB) to protect Fingal's Ecological Network. This will ensure that Objective GINH04, "resist development that would fragment or prejudice the County's strategic Green Infrastructure network", will be met in the Draft Fingal Development Plan.

An Access Officer should be employed full time by the council to assess developments, public buildings and spaces to make sure they are accessible.

New public toilets should be gender-neutral. The council should promote making existing public restrooms gender-neutral.

Social and community infrastructure should be built in tandem with new residential areas, not afterwards. Any development that includes plans to build community facilities or open space must provide a delivery plan to ensure that proper community infrastructure and facilities are provided within new residential areas in the County.

Orbital public transport links will allow residents to move across Fingal without travelling into the city centre. The Development Plan needs to encourage these.

All new builds around major roads must provide noise insulation for any house permitted to ensure that noise within the unit is within the WHO Noise pollution standard of 59dB.

All road upgrades and surfacing projects must consider creating or improving active travel routes adjacent to the road.

Examine our towns and villages in the County to identify which appropriate Bring Banks are needed in local communities and coordinate with local stakeholders to identify suitable locations to install such banks to encourage recycling and recovery of waste.

Aim to report and map the Level of Traffic Stress (LTS) of all current cycle lanes in the county 

All future cycle lanes would be graded on Level of Traffic Stress and mapped to provide accurate data on the standard of cycling infrastructure.

Level of Traffic Stress quantifies the amount of discomfort that people feel when they cycle close to traffic, with four being the highest (sharing roads with bikes) and 1 being the lowest (completely segregated bike lanes).

• References and video on Level of Traffic Stress below:
• https://montgomeryplanning.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Appendix-D.pdf
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p36skNda3KE
• https://blog.altaplanning.com/level-of-traffic-stress-what-it-means-for-building-better-bike-networks-c4af9800b4ee

Fingal County Council explores the pedestrianisation of main streets, or streets with a high level of footfall, in the County's towns and villages to reduce car congestion and promote local business.

Identify potential sites for community gardens, or allotments, in new and existing communities that lack private green spaces and facilitate their evolution into the areas mentioned above.

Several important local objectives in the current plan have been omitted from the draft. These should each be considered for retention. Several objectives in the community chapter have not been rolled over to the draft plan. Three specific objectives highlighted are:

Objective PM70: Ensure proposals for large scale residential developments include a community facility unless it can be established that the needs of the new residents can be adequately served within existing or committed community facilities in the area.

Objective PM72: Resist the loss of existing social and community facilities such as community centres and youth clubs or any sports facilities, including playing fields, unless satisfactory alternatives are available.

Objective PM76: Require as part of planning applications for new residential and commercial developments that provision be made for appropriate purpose-built childcare facilities where such facilities are deemed necessary by the Planning Authority.