How do my ideas and views inform the Old Connaught Local Area Plan?

Your views will help shape the direction of the final Local Area Plan. 

  

Your written submissions / observations will be reviewed and summarised, and recommendations made in response to them in a Chief Executive's Report. 

 

This report will be then circulated to the Elected Members for their consideration in spring/summer 2025. 

 

The Elected Members may agree to make the Local Area Plan, by way of a resolution, with minor amendments at a Council Meeting in the summer of 2025. 

 

Thank you for taking the time to have your say in the process by making a written submission / observation and helping to shape the policy framework for your area. 

How do residents go about requesting Paid Parking in their areas?

Guidelines for the Implementation of Paid Parking Control Schemes are contained in the Parking Control Bye-Laws, 2007.  For an area to be considered for Paid parking control a signed petition by a number of residents should be submitted by the Residents Association, or individually on behalf of a group of residents, to the Parking Section of the Municipal Services Department.  The request will be assessed by the Municipal Services Department.  A traffic / parking survey will be carried out to assess the nature and extent of the parking problem in the area, whether the implementation of Paid parking control is considered appropriate, the suitability of the area and the capacity to accommodate a Paid parking control scheme.  In primarily residential areas, if it is considered that Paid Parking is warranted, a survey and accompanying drawing will be circulated to eligible residents to obtain the residents preference in relation to the proposed introduction of Paid Parking.  A report on the proposed introduction of a parking scheme will then be brought to the Area Committee in which the proposed Scheme is located for approval. If the Scheme is approved by the Area Committee it will then go to the full Council for final approval to introduce the Scheme.
 

For more information, contact the Parking Section on (01) 2054884.

Email: parkingcontrol@dlrcoco.ie

 

residents paid parking
How do you get there by public transport?
  • From Dublin City to Dean’s Grange Cemetery, bus number 46a to the Dean’s Grange Crossroads and the number 4 bus to Rockford Pk., which are both within walking distance.
  • From Blackrock to Dean’s Grange Cemetery, the number 84 bus which stops near the Cemetery Gates.
  • From Dun Laoghaire to Dean’s Grange Cemetery, the number 46a to the Dean’s Grange Crossroads, within walking distance.
  • From Dublin City to Shanganagh Cemetery, the number 145 bus
  • From Blackrock to Shanganagh Cemetery, the number 84 bus
  • From Dun Laoghaire to Shanganagh Cemetery, the number 45a bus All buses to Shanganagh Cemetery stop near the Cemetery Gates
How do you go about getting a grave topped with soil and tidied?

Call to the Dean's Grange Cemetery Office or Post

  1. The grave number, or if this is not possible a date of death or burial of someone in the grave.
  2.  Cheque/Postal Order/Bank Draft (made payable to Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown Co. Co.) for €75 + VAT @ 13.5% Total Cost €85.13. Debit/Credit Card transactions may be made in person in the Dean's Grange Cemetery Office.
  3. Your name, address and phone number so we can contact you when the work has been completed. 
How do you go about getting new chippings on a grave?

Call to the Dean's Grange Cemetery Office or Post

  1. The grave number, or if this is not possible a date of death or burial of someone in the grave.
  2.  Cheque/Postal Order (made payable to Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown Co. Co.) for €210 + VAT @ 13.5% Total Cost €238.35. Debit/Credit Card transactions can be made in person in the Dean's Grange Cemetery Office.
  3.  Whether you would like grey granite or white marble chippings.
  4.  Your name, address and phone number so we can contact you when the work has been completed.  
How do you know when to do the bathing water testing?

When preparing the bathing water sampling calendar, effort is made to spread out the sampling days. However, due to tides and the requirement to sample during high tide, and factoring in the opening times of the central lab, there are only limited days when sampling can be completed and delivered on time to the lab.

How do you locate a grave?

Dean's Grange & Shanganagh Cemetery Reocds are online: https://dlrcc.discoverafter.com.

Or

Contact the Dean's Grange Cemetery Office

 

How does a structure become a Protected Structure?

Any structure including those of local interest that meet one or more of the Categories of Special Interest in accordance with Section 51 (1) of the Planning & Development Act, 2000 and Section 2.5.4 of the DOEHLG Architectural Heritage Protection Guidelines may be considered for inclusion onto the Record of Protected Structures (RPS).  
    
A planning authority may add (or delete) a structure from the RPS as appropriate:

a) in accordance with a review or variations of the County Development Plan as set out in Section 12 of the Planning and Development Act 2000 or

b) at any other time by following prescribed procedures laid out under Section 55. 
The making of an addition (or deletion) is a function that is a matter for the elected representatives.

Any person who wishes a structure be added to or deleted from the Record of Protected Structures may apply to the Conservation Division for consideration. Supplementary information should accompany the address of the building, such as maps, photographs, and any known historical information.

A notification process also forms part of the formal procedure to add a structure onto the Record of Protected Structures.  This involves notifying the owners/occupiers of the structure, along with certain interested bodies of the proposal and also the public by means of a newspaper advertisement.  The owner/occupier of the structure and any member of the public are entitled to make comments on the proposal to the authority.  These comments are taken into account before the planning authority’s elected members decide whether or not the structure should become a protected structure. 

How does a structure become a Protected Structure?

Any structure including those of local interest that meet one or more of the Categories of Special Interest in accordance with Section 51 (1) of the Planning & Development Act, 2000 and Section 2.5.4 of the Architectural Heritage Protection Guidelines may be considered for inclusion onto the Record of Protected Structures (RPS).  
    
A planning authority may add (or delete) a structure from the RPS as appropriate in accordance with legislative procedures set out in the Planning and Development Act 2000 (as amended).

Any person who wishes a structure be added to or deleted from the Record of Protected Structures may apply to the Conservation Division for consideration. Supplementary information should accompany the address of the building, such as maps, photographs, and any known historical information.

How does this distribution of Rates Liability Work?

An example is the best way to explain this. Look at the following:

 Property AProperty BProperty CTotal Rates
Rateable Valuation€200€200€200 
ARV – Pre Revaluation€69.20€69.20€69.20 
Rates Liability – Pre Revaluation €13,840€13,840€13,840€41,520
Rental Value €60,000€81,500€100,000 
ARV Post Revaluation  €0.170€0.170€0.170 
Rates Liability After Revaluation€10,200€13,855€17,000€41,055

Before revaluation, each property had the same valuation and the same rates assessment. The total rates take for the Council is €41,520. After revaluation the rateable valuations now reflect the open market rental values (as at the valuation date of the 30th September 2005). You can see, following revaluation, that property A has a decreased rates assessment, property B is virtually unchanged while property C gets an increased assessment. The Council’s overall take is also less. 

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