Ref Section 4.2.5 Landscape, Natural, Cultural and Built Heritage Amendment 4.9

I ask that the Development Plan ensures that detailed habitat classifications are recorded prior to zoning land and that implications of zoning are considered at a river basin catchment scale.

I support the need to protect the Woodlands in Rathcoole which are of significance from environmental, biodiversity and amenity perspectives.

I welcome the fact that the Council's own ecological assessment found that 'overall the site is currently considered to be of County ecological importance for its mosaic of Annex I (priority) habitats, species-rich semi-natural habitats, heritage value hedgerows, wetland habitats and mosaic of wooded and non-wooded semi-natural habitats which are rare in County Dublin'.