The Core Strategy in Chapter 2 identifies capacity for approximately 23,370 units that are serviced and/or serviceable within the lifetime of the Plan period. As per Appendix 11: South Dublin Housing Strategy and Interim HNDA 2022 - 2028, SDCC acknowledges that "On average across the past 5 years up to the end of 2020, 1,278 residential units a year were built." As only a fraction of the lands developed which were zoned residential have been delivered over the course of the last plan, one would have to question the viability/ suitability of the lands already zoned given if only 1,278 units are completed a year that correspondingly a greater volume of lands will have to be zoned/ rezoned to meet The Housing Need for the County of 17,817 new homes up to 2028.
I hope that SDCC can revise their standpoint on not rezoning/ zoning additional lands/ dezoning unsuitable lands as part of this Development Plan