5.4 - The Strategic Approach

The delivery of quality homes and sustainable communities in the compact city is a key issue for our citizens and ensuring that Dublin remains competitive as a place to live and invest in. The approach is to build on the policies of the last development plan and implement the core strategy by:

  • Supporting the Metropolitan Area Strategic Plan (MASP) which seeks the sustainable development of the Dublin metropolitan area.
  • Providing for the right quantity of appropriate housing in the right locations that are accessible and affordable for all residents of the city through the implementation and delivery of the Housing Strategy.
  • Completion and implementation of approved Local Area Plans (LAPs) and Strategic Development Zones (SDZs), in addition to Strategic Development and Regeneration Areas (SDRAs) and Key Urban Villages (KUVs), to drive the delivery of sustainable, dynamic urban centres, in line with the settlement strategy.
  • Delivering good quality housing to cater for diverse housing needs - mix of tenures and typologies to meet people's full lifecycle and avoidance of large areas of mono use developments.
  • Promote and facilitate the provision of the 15-minute city which provides for sustainable urban neighbourhoods and villages through healthy placemaking and the delivery of high quality housing served by local services.
  • Engaging in active land management to promote regeneration including utilising the Vacant Sites Register, the Dublin Housing Task Force and Dublin City’s Regeneration Programme.
  • Inter-departmental Council collaboration to actively seek funding for housing and social infrastructure from national and European funding including LIHAF, URDF and the Serviced Sites Fund.

In development management, ensuring that applications for significant large new developments are accompanied by an audit of community infrastructure and an implementation and phasing programme in relation to community infrastructure, so that facilities identified as needed are provided in a timely and co-ordinated fashion.