Shaping your county online
Innovation so fresh you can almost smell the paint drying!
The Draft County Development Plan is a necessarily detailed vision of the county. Even with the best of efforts it can be a complex read and difficult to interpret exactly how places which you have an interest in are proposed to be shaped into the future.
South Dublin County Council are pleased to announce the availability of the South Dublin County Draft Development Plan on-line. On previous occasions the Council has had extensive volumes of information available including textual reports and maps. Interested parties could buy printed copies, download on-line documents, or visit the council office and libraries to review the detail of the proposed plan.
In addition to offering all of this, South Dublin County Council now provides an even easier way for interested parties to interpret what is being proposed in the Draft County Development Plan. Our on-line development plan viewer takes the information from many sources and presents it on a interactive map. You can zoom in and out, and pan the image to navigate to parts of the map or you can search for a street or house.
The information tool 
When you have landed on a point that you want to find out more about in terms of what is proposed simply click the information tool and click the point on the map. The viewer then responds by giving you a pop up window with information from the draft development plan about that exact spot.
The amount of information which is displayed is determined by what you select under the development plan layers tool which ‘floats’ over the map. You can turn on or off as much information that you wish to see.
Registering your opinion 
You can follow the link to register your details which will create a user account on the viewer. You can log in once your account is created and verified. Now you will have a new tool available to you to highlight a site or area on a map. Once highlighted, you can enter your submission text in the area provided and submit your observation.
Finally, once a valid submission has been made the development plan viewer system will email a copy of your submission to you including both text and map of the area with your site or area highlighted.
This innovative approach lets interested parties interrogate and comment on the draft county development plan, making it easier to access information which they have a particular interest in and more effective at ensuring the interested parties comments are received most appropriately with full mark up of the map detail. In technology terms it combines database technology, mapping technology, email technology across the medium of the internet to provide an end to end solution.
