Chapter 10: Sustainable Communities and Social Infrastructure (Formerly Chapter 9)

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Amend Policy SCSI P2 Location of Community Facilities as follows:

Policy SCSI P2 - Location of Community Facilities - It is a policy of the Council to ensure that adequate provision is made in land use zoning, in the layout of developments and residential densities to ensure optimum accessibility to local community facilities and amenities, particularly by sustainable modes of transport and insofar as opportunities allow, that barriers to pedestrian access to such social infrastructure should be removed.

9.1 Introduction

SCSI P2 Location of Community Facilities

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Insert a new Objective SCSI OXX Health Place Audits in Section 9.4 Healthy Place-Making and Communities as follows:

Objective SCSI OXX - Health Place Audits - It is an objective of the Council to support the creation of attractive, enterprise development friendly, liveable, well designed, high quality places that are home to a diverse enterprise base mix and integrated communities by using tools such as Health Place Audits to audit locations in meeting necessary conditions.

9.4 Healthy Place-Making and Communities  

New objective

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Amend Objective SCSI O9 Educational Facilities as follows:

a)    Ensure that existing and new school sites are protected for educational use and that lands

       adjacent to existing schools are protected for future educational use in order to allow for expansion of these schools, if required, subject to site suitability. Reserve lands to facilitate the delivery of new educational facilities, including extensions of existing schools in cooperation with the Department of Education.

b)     Ensure that there are sufficient educational places to meet the needs generated by proposed residential developments, by requiring the completion of a Sustainability Statement and Social Infrastructure Assessment for residential development of 5 or more dwellings. 

c)  In order to ensure availability of educational provision to meet projected increased requirements arising from the consolidation and densification of development within the City Centre, all existing City Centre schools (and land buffers around them if available) should be protected so that they can be purposed to meet future educational requirements.

        Support the provision of new City Centre schools, with a general presumption against the relocation of City schools away from the City Centre.

d)   Commence work in conjunction with the Department of Education, to identify potential school sites in the City and Environs that will address the future educational needs of the projected population.

9.5 Education Facilities

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53 - Cllr. Elena Secas

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Amend title of Objective SCSI O18 Protection of lands zoned for public open space as follows:

Objective SCSI O18 - Protection of lands zoned for Open Space and Recreation public open space

9.10 Sports and Recreation

SCSI 018 Protection of lands zoned for public open space

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Amend Objective SCSI O26 Playgrounds to include the following:

d)   Require developers of new residential schemes commensurate with the scale and purpose of the development to provide in situ, natural play areas for children, or as the case may be, small playgrounds, where it is considered necessary and opportune to address local deficits in provision as set out in Table DM1 Open Space Hierarchy.

9.11 Play Areas

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Amend Objective SCSI O28 Trails, Hiking and Walking Routes as follows:

Objective SCSI O28 - Trails, Hiking and Walking Routes - It is an objective of the Council to support and promote the development of regional and local networks of mountain biking, hiking and walking routes/trails. These should be waymarked/signposted and listed, where feasible and appropriate. 

9.12 Trails and Green Routes

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Insert a new Objective SCSI OXX Cultural Audit in Section 9.14 Arts and Culture as follows:

Objective SCSI XX - Cultural Audit – It is an objective of the Council to undertake a cultural audit and create a dynamic database and associated map of existing and future locations and landmarks that incorporates, or has the potential to incorporate cultural/creative arts.

9.14 Arts and Culture

New objective

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Amend Objective SCSI O36 Burial Grounds/ Crematoria to include the following:

e)   Ensure protection of water quality, in particular drinking water sources, with any proposed development.

9.16 Burial Grounds and Crematoria

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Amend Objective SCI O38 Public Rights of Way as follows:

Objective SCSI O38 - Public Rights of Way - It is an objective of the Council to examine the feasibility of identifying and mapping new public rights of way in the recreational and amenity areas in Limerick in the context of emerging national guidance, within the lifetime of the Plan encourage the preservation of existing public rights of way within the plan area.

9.18 Public Rights of Way

SCSI 038 Public Rights of Way

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