4.4 Dublin City and Suburbs

4.4 Dublin City and Suburbs

The RSES supports continued population and economic growth in Dublin City and suburbs, with high quality new housing promoted and a focus on the role of good urban design, brownfield redevelopment and urban renewal and regeneration. There is an opportunity to promote and improve the provision of public transport and active travel and the development of strategic amenities to provide for sustainable communities. Dublin City and suburbs is considered in the context of the MASP and is dealt with in greater detail in Chapter 5 Dublin Metropolitan Area Strategic Plan (MASP).

The NPF sets out ambitious targets to achieve compact growth with 50% of housing to be provided within or contiguous to the built-up area of Dublin City and suburbs. To achieve this, the MASP identifies strategic residential and employment corridors along key public transport corridors existing and planned, that contain development opportunities. These include; Dublin Docklands and Poolbeg West, former industrial lands including Naas Road, the regeneration of older social housing projects, Parkwest-Cherry Orchard and Ballymun, large scale urban expansion on the North Fringe of the city, the western suburbs including Adamstown and Clonburris SDZs, Fortunestown near the emerging town of Saggart/Citywest, brownfield lands in Tallaght along with the development of the Hansfield SDZ lands in Blanchardstown.

The Naas Road lands are a significant landbank straddling the Dublin City Council and South Dublin County Council boundary, with long-term potential to become a major district centre but which require significant investment and site assembly efforts to enable their activation. Other long-term opportunities include the development of Dunsink, a major greenfield landbank inside the M50 ring, that requires requisite investment in infrastructure and public transport links.

REGIONAL POLICY OBJECTIVES:

Consolidation and Re-Intensification

RPO 4.3: Support the consolidation and re-intensification of infill/brownfield sites to provide high density and people intensive uses within the existing built up area of Dublin City and suburbs and ensure that the development of future development areas is co-ordinated with the delivery of key water infrastructure and public transport projects.

There is also potential for significant re-intensification of employment lands within the M50 ring, at Sandyford Business District and Cherrywood, to complement the Docklands and city centre business district. Outside the M50, the Dublin Enterprise Zone in Blanchardstown and Grangecastle in south Dublin have significant capacity for high tech manufacturing, research and development in campus style settings.

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