Implementation and Monitoring

CHAPTER 20

As highlighted in the recent Greystones Biodiversity Report 2021 by Faith Wilson for Greystones Tidy Towns, our current Planning & Development strategy to date (with housing zoning & regulation focus) has not worked to preserve our Biodiversity - the fabric of our Garden County - nor protect our Climate. We have declared a Climate & Biodiversity Emergency but not mobilized and significantly changed our Planning approach.  It is therefore unsustainable and an explicit Biodiversity Planning & Development function must be urgently established.

Delgany Community Council  propose that the monitoring section be rewritten and include an objective  that

"WCC will establish a dedicated Biodiversity Planning and Development function to monitor, plan and develop our biodiversity. Within 90 days, this function will set the first smart targets for short term (1-10 years) and long term (up to 100 years) biodiversity planning and development for County Wicklow. It will set a new Zoning type 'Zoned for Biodiversity Development'"