No mandated requirement for developers to provide sufficient ammenities for the community who will be housed there and also to provide premises to house schools, Garda stations, fire stations as required
This must be a condition of any development along with the below:

Parking capacity must be addressed to avoid the situation other areas of development in SDCC are currently facing such as Knocklyon, Citywest, Tallaght and even already in the newer developed sections of Adamstown and Clonburris.
Underground parking structures must be enforced and provide 1 space per residence at a minimum as well as bike storage and provisions for EV charging. 

Healthcare Capacity
There is no provision for healthcare infrastructure within the recommendation, despite the scale of population growth envisaged. The absence of requirements for primary care centres, GP capacity, or wider community health services creates a clear risk that essential services will lag behind residential development.

Visual Amenity
There is no explicit guidance on protecting visual amenity or managing the visual impact of development. Key aspects such as building height, density transitions, and views are deferred to future masterplanning, leaving considerable uncertainty about the eventual form and quality of the development.

Loss of Strategic Open Land
The rezoning of these lands is not accompanied by a strong strategic justification or clear mitigation measures. There is no commitment to maintaining meaningful green buffers or preserving separation between settlements, raising concerns about incremental coalescence and loss of open countryside.

Overall Pace of Development (Relative to Adamstown & Clonburris)
The absence of a clear phasing strategy linked to infrastructure delivery remains a significant gap. The reliance on a relatively weak rail trigger, combined with the lack of firm sequencing measures, creates a risk that development could proceed ahead of infrastructure and outpace the build-out of existing SDZ areas, undermining coordinated and sustainable growth.

 

Overdevelopment and Cumulative Growth

A central theme of the public submissions was that Lucan, Adamstown and the surrounding area have already accommodated exceptionally high levels of housing growth through Adamstown SDZ, Clonburris SDZ and other developments. The CE recommendation directly acknowledges cumulative development potential and requires a masterplan informed by cumulative impacts. However, it does not place any limit on the scale of development that may ultimately proceed. Instead, it requires further assessment and planning before development occurs. As a result, concerns about excessive growth have been recognised, but not fundamentally resolved.