The Report of the Consultants on the Sketch Development Plan, together with the covering report of the Town Planning Committee of November, 1939, was considered at a special meeting of the General Purposes Committee on the 10th December, 1940. The General Purposes Committee adopted the report and sketch development proposals of the Consultants subject to the amendments embodied in the report of the Town Planning Committee and to the following additional recommendations:

(a) the exclusion of Government Buildings from the proposed statutory plan;

(b) the provision of bathing facilities on a larger scale than contemplated in the report considered;

(c) the use of St. Anne's (Clontarf) to be the subject of further consideration by the Town Planning Committee;

(d) the possibility of increasing the extent of the reclamation proposed at Merrion to be considered.

It was ordered that the draft scheme be prepared on the basis of the foregoing as a preliminary to the submission to the Municipal Council of the proposed statutory plan.