Submission To KCC Development Plan
LTTA make proposals on the Kildare County development plan jointly with Celbridge and Maynooth Tidy Town Associations
On our initiative, LTTA has combined with CTTA and MTT to make common proposals to Kildare County Council as a precursor to the Council’s preparation of a new development plan for the county. This is a first for us all.
WE MAKE PROPOSALS ON THE KILDARE COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN jointly with Celbridge and Maynooth Tidy Town Associations
On our initiative, LTTA has combined with CTTA and MTT to make common proposals to Kildare County Council as a precursor to the Council’s preparation of a new development plan for the county. This is a first for us all.
The common proposals we have agreed are:
- the provision of a pedal-cycling lane along the Liffey linear park into Dublin
- ensure that bicycle parking facilities are actually provided with developments – they are not - and retro-fit them in town centre, shopping and railway stations
- insist that all new commercial and institutional developments provide on-site parking facilities - not levies in lieu
- where practicable, ban HGVs from old, village- or town-centre locations and provide bypasses if necessary
- list old stone walls, all old canal and railway masonry bridges as protected structures
- the elected members to lobby government to bring Irish Rail and OPW within the normal planning process – to preclude the damage they do to structures without the public having any practical right of redress
- require all further town-centre development to be architecturally harmonious with the historic town theme
- promote the use of the third-rail electrification of the Maynooth commuter railway in place of ugly, overhead wires and pylons
- provide a bring-and-leave recycling centre for North Kildare, possibly at the Council’s own site on the West Celbridge – West Leixlip interchange road
- provide for the collection of brown (ie garden) waste
- provide for the operation of the Litter Acts to police surplus signage and commercial events and use traffic wardens for this purpose
- provide for feedback to complainants from litter wardens
- operate the Planning & Development Acts to control unauthorised development – KCC is among the least effective planning authorities in this respect according to 2006 and 2007 data
- provide public access to the Council’s unauthorised development files, as promised
- operate the Derelict Sites Act as envisaged to control dereliction
- remove excessive pole-mounted signage in historic village centres and replace with on-road signage or outside towns
- ban pole-mounted signs outside heritage, protected or historic structures
- require bus-stops and other premises to have cigarette butt disposal containers
- establish a parks and litter control team at the Maynooth Council centre
- plan to provide more leisure facilities for the elderly and playgrounds for children
- welcome substantial development proposals which provide for district heating or combined heat and power schemes
- require new developments to collect rain-water for non-potable purposes
- meter and charge for potable water and incentivise the use of economising devices
- Council policy on planning should be based on low population growth.
Leixlip-Specific Proposals
- Zone the Sileachán Valley as an area of special biodiversity
- Zone as public amenity the riverside parkland from Rye Bridge, Main Street to Leixlip Bridge and continue the development of it, taking care to prevent encroachment from private interests
- Specify the conservation of the Spa Well and Romanesque bath at Louisa Bridge, taking care to strike a balance between public access and the protection of the special micro-biodiversity there
- Specify as an objective the restoration of the canal collector’s cottage by the aqueduct
- Specify as an objective the preservation of parts of the Royal Canal embankment to foster the wild flora there
- Specify as an objective the implementation of the Planning and Development Regulations relating to prohibited signage, advertising material, flood and fascia lighting, the fixing of satellite dishes to the fronts and chimneys of village centre premises, the removal of what ought to be temporary fixtures for festive lighting and ancillary unauthorised electricity meters when not in use.
- Specify as an objective more studies on the abatement of flooding in the village
- Take a new, cul-de-sac in charge off Main St
- Upgrade the Council’s policy to secure the effective protection of the Wonderful Barn and consider allotments as a complementary use of the surround land.