18/09/08 Breaking News!

At yesterdays Planning Department Meeting of the Lucan/Clondalkin
Area Committee, my latest Motion was Passed in an effort to secure
the preservation of the lands at St. Edmundsbury and Woodville for
all time. At the June 08th Council Meeting my Motion was Passed
requesting South Dublin County Council to write to the Minister for
the Environment and Local Government requesting the Minister to make
a Ministerial Order, under Section 202 of the Planning and
Development Act 2000, to make further Special Amenity Area Order(s)
to preserve the Liffey Valley Lands in South Dublin, including at St.
Edmundsbury and Woodville, particularly in view of the unanimous
decision of South Dublin County Council expressed in the Motion
passed in South Dublin County Council on 10th March 2008, including
it is wholly undesirable that any future housing developments take
place in the Liffey Valley, including at St. Edmundsbury and
Woodville, that would undoubtedly further damage the Liffey Valley
Park as did, for example, the earlier housing developments at
Laraghcon, in the interest of the preservation of these lands, and
that this committee also requests the Manager to specifically
emphasise in this letter to the Minister the urgency of this request
and specify in the request that this Ministerial Order for further
Special Amenity Area Order(s) to preserve the Liffey Valley Lands,
including at St. Edmundsbury and Woodville, is made prior to the
commencement of the Review of the next County Development Plan,
scheduled to commence in November 2008.