Frequently Accessed
Welcome to the Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council's Draft Old Connaught Local Area Plan webpage.
Draft Old Connaught Local Area Plan 2025
The Draft Old Connaught Local Area Plan (LAP) sets out the policies and objectives to guide future development in Old Connaught. The Draft Plan and its associated environmental reports can be viewed and/or downloaded from the document list below.
In addition to the Draft LAP, a number of non-statutory items have been prepared to provide an overview of the Draft Plan, including:
Vision
Draft Plan Public Consultation
The public consultation stage of the Draft Old Connaught Local Area Plan (LAP) ended on the 17th April 2025.
Thank you to everyone who came along to our well attended drop-in days and who took the time to make a submission on the Draft LAP.
What happens now?
All submissions made during the Draft Plan public consultation stage are now being reviewed.
Submissions / Observation can be viewed here.
A Chief Executive's report is being prepared which summarises the issues raised in submissions / observations received and will set out recommendations.
A Chief Executive's Report must to be completed not later than twelve weeks after publication of the notice regarding the Draft Plan in a national newspaper.
The Chief Executive’s report and recommendations on the Draft Old Connaught Local Area Plan will be submitted to the Elected Members for their consideration no longer than 6 weeks after the consultation deadline.
Next Steps
The Elected Members then have six weeks to consider the report and to adopt, amend, or reject the Draft LAP.
If Material Alterations to the Draft LAP are proposed they must go on public display for a further period of not less than four weeks. This would take place in the Summer.
The Elected Members would then have a further period of time to consider a Chief Executive’s Report on the proposed material alterations. The Plan would then be adopted with or without the material alterations.
Draft Old Connaught Local Area Plan
Pre-Draft Stage
FAQ
A Local Area Plan (LAP) is a statutory document prepared by the Local Authority in accordance with the requirements of the Planning and Development Act 2000 (as amended).
A LAP consists of a suite of policies and objectives to guide the development of an area for a period of 6 years. A LAP sets out a land use strategy for the proper planning and sustainable development an area and consists of a written statement and maps indicating:
- objectives for the zoning of land for the use solely or primarily of particular areas for particular purposes, or
- other objectives in such detail as may be determined by the Planning Authority for the proper planning and sustainable development of the area to which it applies, including the objective of development of land on a phased basis and, detail on community facilities and amenities and on standards for the design of developments and structures.
The Draft Old Connaught Local Area Plan was on public display from 6th March 2025 - 17th April 2025.
A recording of the webinar can be viewed here.
All Draft LAP documents are available to view online under the document list on this webpage, in our Virtual Room, the Council Offices in County Hall and Dundrum or in any of our dlr Library branches.
A Local Area Plan does not contain development proposals, rather, it sets out policies and objectives to help guide any future development within an area.
A number of ‘Site Development Frameworks’ are set out in Chapter 4 of the Local Area Plan, which provide site specific parameters for future development.
All proposed development is subject to assessment by way of a planning application.
All submissions made during the Draft Plan public consultation stage are now being reviewed.
A Chief Executive's report is being prepared which summarises the issues raised in submissions / observations received and will set out recommendations.
In the event that your query isn't addressed on this webpage, you can email us at: dlrforwardplanning@dlrcoco.ie
The list of FAQs do not purport to be a legal interpretation of the Planning and Development Act 2000 (as amended) and are simply for information purposes.
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Webinar
An online webinar was held on 20th March 2025.
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