5.3 Guiding Principles for the growth of the Dublin Metropolitan Area

5.3 Guiding Principles for the growth of the Dublin Metropolitan Area

To achieve the vision the MASP identifies a number of Guiding Principles for the sustainable development of the Dublin Metropolitan Area;
• Dublin as a Global Gateway – In recognition of the international role of Dublin, to support and facilitate the continued growth of Dublin Airport and Dublin Port, to protect and improve existing access and support related access improvements.	• Alignment of growth with enabling infrastructure – To promote quality infrastructure provision and capacity improvement, in tandem with new development and aligned with national projects and improvements in water and waste water, sustainable energy,
• Compact sustainable growth and accelerated housing	waste management and resource efficiency.
delivery – To promote sustainable consolidated growth of the Metropolitan Area, including brownfield and infill development, to achieve a target of 50% of all new homes within or contiguous to the built-up area of Dublin City and suburbs, and at least 30% in other settlements. To support a steady supply of sites and to accelerate housing supply, in order to achieve higher densities in urban built up areas, supported by improved services and public transport.	• Social Regeneration – To realise opportunities for
	social as well as physical regeneration, particularly in those areas of the metropolitan area which have been identified as having high relative deprivation.
	• Identify Future Development Areas – To identify
	future development areas that may be delivered beyond the lifetime of the RSES, but within the
• Integrated Transport and Land use – To focus growth	longer-term 2040 horizon set out by the NPF.
along existing and proposed high quality public transport corridors and nodes on the expanding public transport network and to support the delivery and integration of ‘BusConnects’, DART expansion and LUAS extension programmes, and Metro Link, while maintaining the capacity and safety of strategic transport networks.	• Metropolitan Scale Amenities – To enhance provision
	of regional parks and strategic Green Infrastructure, to develop an integrated network of metropolitan scale amenities, and to develop greenways/blueways along the canals, rivers and coast, as part of the implementation of the National Transport Authority’s
• Increased employment density in the right places –	Cycle Network Plan for the Greater Dublin Area.
• Co-ordination and active land management – To enhance To plan for increased employment densities within co-ordination across local authorities and relevant Dublin City and suburbs and at other sustainable agencies to promote more active urban development locations near high quality public transport nodes, and land management policies that help develop near third level institutes and existing employment underutilised, brownfield, vacant and public lands. hubs, and to relocate less intensive employment uses outside the M50 ring and existing built-up areas.	• Co-ordination and active land management – To enhance
	co-ordination across local authorities and relevant agencies to promote more active urban development and land management policies that help develop underutilised, brownfield, vacant and public lands.

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