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:
 

• A virtual public display
• A StoryMap

The Draft Old Connaught Local Area Plan will be on display both in hard copy and online from 6th March to 17th April 2025.   

The Draft LAP is available to view in our online Virtual Room and at the following physical locations:

• Planning Counter, County Hall, Dún Laoghaire (10.00am – 4.00pm) 

• Council Offices, Dundrum Office Park, Dundrum (9.30am -12.30pm & 1.30pm – 4.30pm) 

• All branches of Dún Laoghaire - Rathdown Libraries during library opening hours.

An online webinar will be held on 20th March 2025, 7-8pm.  Click here to register for the event.

Two public information ‘Drop-in' days will be held at St. Gerard's School, Old Connaught on

• Tuesday 25th March 2025: 4pm - 8pm
• Tuesday 8th April 2025: 4pm - 8pm 

dlr staff will be available to meet those interested in the Draft LAP during these events.

Submissions and observations are invited from the public and interested parties and can be made in either of the following two ways: 

• Online through our consultation hub here, 
• In writing addressed to Senior Executive Officer, Planning and Economic Development Department, Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council, County Hall, Marine Road, Dún Laoghaire, Co. Dublin. 

The closing date for submissions or observations is 23.59 on the 17th April, 2025.

LATE SUBMISSIONS/OBSERVATIONS WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED. 

Note: 

• Children, or groups or associations representing the interests of children, are entitled to make submissions or observations. 

• All submissions and observations should include your name and a contact address and, where relevant, details of any organisation, community group or company etc., which you represent. 

• Please make your submission by one medium only, i.e. hard copy or dlr consultation. 

• All submissions will be published online. Names will be published only with consent. Addresses and contact details will be redacted on all submissions.

Following the public display period, a report summarising the issues raised, and the Chief Executive’s recommendation will then be prepared for the Elected Members for their consideration.

This has to be prepared not later than twelve weeks after publication of the notice regarding the Draft Plan in a national newspaper.

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.

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.