Chapter 2 Development Plan Strategy

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HEALTHY PLACEMAKING ● CLIMATE CHANGE ● ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY

2.0 Introduction
 

This chapter provides an overview of the three overarching cross-cutting themes that inform and shape all aspects of the County Development Plan. The legislative and policy context for each theme is outlined. These cross-cutting overarching themes align with the key principles identified in the NPF and Regional Spatial and Economic Strategy for the Eastern and Midland Region.  
As will be evident, there is significant overlap between the three themes. Placemaking integrates with the creation of sustainable communities which includes housing, sustainable mobility, healthy town and village centres and economic development. Climate change has implications for sustainable mobility, economic development and heritage and biodiversity. Economic development is increasingly integrated with our response to climate change and to the delivery of healthy placemaking.  

2.1 Healthy Placemaking

Planning has an important role to play in creating healthy places that enable a high quality of life. The role of healthy placemaking is increasingly important in the context of a post pandemic world, climate emergency and economic recovery. Healthy environments make healthy people; healthy people underpin economic vitality1. The environment in which we live in has a significant impact on our health and well-being.. In recent years, healthy placemaking has reignited the links between public health and planning. This will become even more crucial post-COVID.  

While healthy placemaking might be a relatively new term, the consideration of health and safety as part of planning policy is not a new phenomenon. Quality of life and impacts on amenity have long been important planning considerations. Town planning and public health both emerged in the late nineteenth century in response to the unsanitary and overcrowded conditions of industrial cities. Environmental pollution can have negative impacts on human health. Planning authorities have a responsibility to create and retain clean healthy environments. Many planning policies are based on health and safety considerations, for example – water and wastewater facilities, flooding, noise, sustainable mobility and open space provision.  

Healthy placemaking looks at creating places where people are healthier and happier. It questions the quality of the built environment and how it is impacting on health and well being. There is increasing consensus that the built environment can positively impact on people’s behaviour and that health should be a key consideration of spatial planning.  

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Overall Strategy
Please find An Taisce's submission on the Draft Development Plan attached.
Please find attached Submission on Chapter 2 Overall Strategy by GAP Community.
I OWN LAND IN Baltinglass East on the Shrughaun road  my eircode is (redacted).   The land is currently zoned residential. A planning for a family member was granted on the site on...
County Development Plan submission on behalf of Delgany Community Council Delgany Community Council recognises the time and work invested in bringing this plan to draft stage. We also...