Support for MA6.1

Uimhir Thagarta Uathúil: 
SD-C431-367
Stádas: 
Submitted
Submission: 
Hermitage Residents MA to proposed Variation No 2
Údar: 
Hermitage Park
Comhairliúchán: 
Proposed Material Alterations to Proposed Variation No. 2 to the South Dublin County Development Plan 2022-2028
Dáta a cuireadh isteach: 
05.08.2026 - 00:34

MA St. Edmundsbury

Caibidil: 
MA St. Edmundsbury
Ábhair: 
MA6.1

We, the Hermitage Park Residents Association, strongly support the addition of MA6.1 to remove the proposal to rezone the lands at St. Edmundsbury for the following reasons:

  • These lands are currently zoned High Amenity and are adjacent to the Special Area of the Liffey Valley. This site is integral to the green corridor, feeding into the Liffey Valley Strategic Amenity Area (SAAO) and should not be rezoned for residential or any other use, except to be added to the SAAO. 
  • The biodiversity on this land must be maintained. It is home to many species including many protected species. A biodiversity study needs to be undertaken of these lands so they can be protected properly. Our community has shared sightings of foxes, badgers, barn owls, red kites, stoats, bats, yellow hammer, buzzards, swifts, pine martins - all of which are likely to be breeding on this land. 
  • This land includes important, established woodland. The government is encouraging and paying land owners to plant and maintain woodland across the country. It doesn't make sense to remove established woodland for housing in an area that already has so much housing development. 
  • The road that provides access to and from this land is already severely congested with traffic at all times of the day and night, it cannot accommodate an addition 700+ house and occupants.