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Dublin City Development Plan 2022–2028 – Volume 1: Written Statement (as varied by Variations Nos. 1–11)
The council's development plan written statement: its strategy, policies, objectives and development standards.
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- The City Centre, Urban Villages and Retail | Chapter 7 221 It is the Policy of Dublin City Council: CCUV36 New Development To support uses that would result in the diversification of the evening and night time economy where there is little impact on the amenity of adjoining or adjacent residential uses through noise disturbance and where there are no negative cumulative impacts in terms of other night-time economy uses in the area. 7.5.8 Public Realm The public realm generally refers to all the areas to which the public has access such as roads, streets, footpaths, lanes, parks, squares, open spaces and building façades. The public realm plays an important role in how Dublin’s urban centres functions; it comprises the spaces that people move through in their daily lives and spaces for recreation, social contact and civic engagement. The quality of the public realm affects how people experience and perceive the city in terms of its attractiveness as a place to live, work and visit as well as influencing a range of health, wellbeing and social factors. The quality of the public realm is, therefore, vital to the liveability and health of the city and to its economic success. Dublin City Council, through its own projects and through its works with infrastructure providers and developers is working to provide a city wide public realm that is distinctive, attractive, safe, accessible, inclusive and well connected. Public realm projects in the city centre are guided by the Dublin City Public Realm Strategy ‘Your City Your Space’ 2012, which sets out guiding principles to support the delivery of a quality public realm which is safe and easy to navigate. It is the Council’s intention to review the existing the Public Realm Strategy within the development plan period and to prepare a citywide strategy for a coordinated approach to delivering and managing the public realm. A quality public realm will deliver / provide: Quality Urban Design: Good urban design principles should be integrated into the layout and design of new development in line with the Departmental Guidelines ‘Sustainable Residential Development in Urban Areas’, 2009 and the ‘Design Manual for Urban Roads and Streets, 2012 (DMURS). This is to ensure that the design of the public realm will make attractive places and will positively contribute to the wider objectives of the development plan of creating green, healthy and successful places. A Sense of Place: All spaces should be carefully designed and be appropriate to their context, character and location and should provide/reinforce a sense of place.
- The City Centre, Urban Villages and Retail | Chapter 7 222 Connections: The public realm should be legible, connected and permeable and designed to encourage people to walk and cycle to their destinations (schools, shops, work, playgrounds etc.) and to easily access public transport. This will encourage and enable people to be physically active in their daily lives. Comfort: The public realm should be highly accessible and inclusive, designed for the comfort and ease of movement of people. A particular priority must be given to the needs of pedestrians and this would include the need to give pedestrians more space in the public realm / the need to expand the pedestrian network. There should be a special focus on the needs of disabled people and the difficulties they face in negotiating the city, and on the elderly, those with dementia, women, children and others with particular mobility requirements. The design of the public realm should be guided by universal design principles and regard should be had to the UN Convention on Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD), the National Disability Inclusion Strategy, 2018 and gender proofing. Sociable Spaces: A quality public realm will provide opportunities for people to meet, congregate and socialise, as well as providing opportunities for quiet enjoyment thereby significantly enhancing the public’s experience of the urban environment. These spaces can range from large civic spaces to micro parks, pop up parks and opportunities for lingering / play. Safety: The public realm must be carefully managed and maintained. It should be decluttered and deter anti-social behaviour and crime to ensure people feel safe. Adjacent buildings should activate, animate and overlook the public realm thereby making the spaces more attractive and providing a sense of security to people using the space / passing through. High Quality Materials: Spaces must be carefully designed, using high quality materials and detailing which respect and enhance the existing character of areas within the city. Landscape treatment, planting, street furniture and surface materials should be of good quality, fit-for-purpose, durable and sustainable. Green Infrastructure: Urban greening features / green infrastructure should form part of all places and streets for visual amenity and climate resilience purposes. This will include the provision of street trees, green roofs, green walls and nature based solutions for sustainable drainage systems (SuDs). Civic Amenities: The installation of seating will be encouraged in the public realm in the city where it adds to the peaceful enjoyment of the public realm. The installation of civic amenities such as public toilets and water fountains can provide important facilities for residents, workers and visitors and will be encouraged. The City Council will continue to develop public realm strategies and to invest in the urban environment.
- The City Centre, Urban Villages and Retail | Chapter 7 223 It is the Policy of Dublin City Council: CCUV37 Plan Active and Healthy Streets To promote the development of a network of active, healthy, attractive, high quality, green, and safe streets and public spaces which are inviting, pedestrian friendly and easily navigable. The aspiration is to encourage walking as the preferred means of movement between buildings and activities in the city. In the case of pedestrian movement within major developments, the creation of a public street is preferable to an enclosed arcade or other passageway. CCUV38 High Quality Streets and Spaces To promote the development of high-quality streets and public spaces which are accessible and inclusive in accordance with the principles of universal design, and which deliver vibrant, attractive, accessible and safe places and meet the needs of the city’s diverse communities regardless of age, ability, disability or gender. CCUV39 Permeable, Legible and Connected Public Realm To deliver a permeable, legible and connected public realm that contributes to the delivery of other key objectives of this development plan namely active travel and sustainable movement, quality urban design, healthy placemaking and green infrastructure. CCUV40 Public Safety To promote the development of a built environment and public spaces which are designed to deter crime and anti-social behaviour and which promote safety, as set out in the ‘Your City Your Space’ Public Realm Strategy 2012. CCUV41 New Infrastructure Development Infrastructure projects in Dublin City should ensure placemaking outcomes through a design-led approach. Dublin City Council will work the relevant agencies / infrastructure providers to achieve public realm enhancements in the design, implementation and delivery of infrastructure projects. CCUV42 Public Realm – City Centre To move to a low traffic environment generally and to increase the amount of traffic free spaces provided in the city centre over the lifetime of the Plan as well as create new high quality public realm areas where possible taking into account the objective to enhance access to and within the city centre by public transport, walking and cycling.
- The City Centre, Urban Villages and Retail | Chapter 7 224 It is the Policy of Dublin City Council: CCUV43 Public Realm - Key Urban Villages/Urban Villages To provide environmental and public realm improvements in Key Urban Villages and urban villages around the city through the implementation of Local Environmental Improvement Plans / Village Improvement Plans and placemaking strategies in order to support the regeneration and revitalisation of the city’s urban villages. Such plans: (i) will identify opportunities for micro spaces (small spaces to facilitate lingering and social, community and cultural interaction and events); and (ii) will be informed by walkability exercises led by older people, parents, the visually impaired and people with disabilities, to make city outdoor spaces more accessible and safe for all, creating walkable communities and age friendly spaces. CCUV44 New Development That development proposals should deliver a high quality public realm which is well designed, clutter-free, with use of high quality and durable materials and green infrastructure. New development should create linkages and connections and improve accessibility. It is an Objective of Dublin City Council: CCUVO13 Civic Spine /College Green Dame Street Project To implement a programme of environmental and public realm improvements along the grand civic spine from Parnell Square to Christchurch Place and along the city quays, and to prioritise and deliver the redevelopment of the College Green and the Dame Street area up to the junction with South Great George’s Street and including Foster Place, as a premier civic space for the city with a traffic free world class public realm. CCUVO14 Pedestrianisation South William Street To support the full pedestrianisation of South William Street, subject to a feasibility study including opportunities for cycling provision.
- The City Centre, Urban Villages and Retail | Chapter 7 225 It is an Objective of Dublin City Council: CCUVO15 City Centre Public Realm Strategy To support the review / update of the City Council’s City Centre Public Realm Strategy - ‘Your City Your Space’ Public Realm Strategy 2012’ and apply it for new / redevelopment public realm work throughout the Dublin City Council administrative area. The new Public Realm Strategy will adopt / provide for: (i) gender and age proofing of public realm projects; (ii) investment in / the use of assistive technology for vulnerable users of the public realm; (iii) good practice models in facilitating mobility aids, including scooters in the public realm; and (iv) good practice models of public seating for older people with mobility issues. CCUVO16 Public Realm Plans / Masterplans To support the implementation of the following public realm plans / masterplans (listed below) and companion manuals: ▪ ‘The Heart of the City’ Public Realm Masterplan for the City Core 2016; ▪ Grafton Street Quarter Public Realm Improvement Plan, 2013; ▪ Public Realm Masterplan for the North Lotts & Grand Canal Dock SDZ Planning Scheme 2014; ▪ Temple Bar Public Realm Plan 2016; ▪ Draft Markets Area Public Realm Plan 2022; ▪ Other forthcoming public realm plans. CCUVO17 Improve Links North / South To improve north / south links between Grafton Street and Henry Street Shopping areas through the implementation of ‘‘The Heart of the City’ Public Realm Masterplan for the City Core 2016. CCUVO18 Streets and Lanes Dublin 1 To work with city stakeholders including local businesses, and the BIDs group ‘WeAreDublintown’ to implement a number of public realm projects arising from the Re-Imagining Dublin One study and to extend best practice from these projects to other parts of Dublin 1 and the city. This includes the North Lotts Planning Study and the ‘Reimagining Dublin One Laneways’ project.
- The City Centre, Urban Villages and Retail | Chapter 7 226 It is an Objective of Dublin City Council: CCUVO19 Linking Office and Culture Clusters to the Retail Core To devise a programme to enhance pedestrian amenities, encourage more street based activities and provide micro spaces along key routes from office and culture clusters to the retail core to enhance the vibrancy of the streetscape and to draw office workers and tourists into the retail core. CCUVO20 Civic Amenities (i) To work with city business associations and agencies to provide for appropriately located, independently accessible sanitary facilities (public toilets, changing areas, showers and wash facilities etc.) for the use of citizens and visitors to the city and accessible to all. (ii) To provide civic amenities such as accessible public toilet facilities and drinking water at suitable locations in new or redeveloped public realm. (iii) To provide public seating based on universal design in appropriate locations in the public realm in the city. Seating for older people with mobility issues will be based on international models of good practice. 7.5.9 Outdoor Advertising Strategy A strategy has been developed for commercial advertising in the public domain (Appendix 17). This strategy forms the basis of a practical policy to be applied to all proposals for outdoor advertising. This strategy is based on an analysis of how sensitive different parts of the city are to advertisement structures and identifies constraints and opportunities for the location of these structures. It also sets out what types of structures are acceptable as outdoor advertising elements. While commercial viability is a key consideration, it has been balanced with the need to create a high quality public domain and to safeguard and enhance sensitive areas and sites. It is the Policy of Dublin City Council: CCUV45 Advertising Structures To consider appropriately designed and located advertising structures primarily with reference to the zoning objectives and permitted advertising uses and of the outdoor advertising strategy (Appendix 17). In all such cases, the structures must be of high-quality design and materials, and must not obstruct or endanger road users or pedestrians, nor impede free pedestrian movement and accessibility of the footpath or roadway.
- The City Centre, Urban Villages and Retail | Chapter 7 227 It is the Policy of Dublin City Council: CCUV46 Removal of Unauthorised Advertisements To actively seek the removal of unauthorised advertisements, fabric banners, meshes, banner or other advertising forms from private property and public areas. It is an Objective of Dublin City Council: CCUVO21 Audit of Redundant and Unnecessary Street Furniture To carry out an audit of existing street furniture including signage and unused poles in the public realm with the aim of identifying and removing redundant / unused and unnecessary street furniture (including redundant elements licenced under Section 254 of the Planning Act) in order to declutter and improve the pedestrian network and to optimise accessibility of all users. In this regard, Dublin City Council will aim to remove 100 such redundant elements in each administrative area each year for the life of the Development Plan. Dublin City Council will investigate measures to promote street furniture co-sharing and integration. 7.5.10 Pedestrian Wayfinding System Clear directional signs are an essential element in helping people to locate the many attractions of the city along the most appropriate route in a safe and efficient manner. Dublin City Council has implemented a pedestrian wayfinding system, located at street intersections, which has been designed to help the pedestrian to move around the city and to find destinations easily. The emphasis of the system is on key quarters, streets, cultural and tourist attractions, public institutions, public parks and major leisure/ recreational event spaces, rather than commercial services. This comprehensive network of directional signage significantly enhances legibility in the urban environment, and in particular, improves the visitor experience of the city. It is the Policy of Dublin City Council: CCUV47 Pedestrian Wayfinding Signage System To maintain, consolidate and expand the Pedestrian Wayfinding System; to ensure a coherent design approach in the area between the canals and Docklands; and to actively remove redundant brown tourist signage as the opportunity arises. The provision of new brown tourist signage will not be supported in the area between the canals and Docklands.
- The City Centre, Urban Villages and Retail | Chapter 7 228 It is an Objective of Dublin City Council: CCUVO22 Manage Pedestrian Wayfinding System To manage the Pedestrian Wayfinding System in consultation with relevant Governments Departments, state agencies (e.g. Fáilte Ireland, Transport Infrastructure Ireland), national cultural institutions and other civic interests in order to ensure the provision of appropriate signage for the principal places of interest in the city.
- Sustainable Movement and Transport | Chapter 8 229 Chapter 8: Sustainable Movement and Transport
- Sustainable Movement and Transport | Chapter 8 230 8.1 Introduction Sustainable and efficient movement of people and goods is crucial for the success and vitality of the city. It is important that we transition away from the private car and fossil fuel based mobility to mitigate against the negative impacts of transport and climate change. A considerable shift towards sustainable modes has been achieved over the last 15 years and this must be accelerated over the next decade with an emphasis on increased active travel and public transport use and decarbonisation of transport. A focus on local travel patterns, promotion of active mobility within communities and connectivity by walking and cycling are key themes in this plan. This plan seeks to promote ease of movement within and around the city as well as playing a key role in safeguarding the environment and adapting to the impacts of climate change. This policy approach promotes the integration of land use and transportation, improved public transport and active travel infrastructure, an increased shift towards sustainable modes of travel and an increased focus on public realm and healthy placemaking, while tackling congestion and reducing transport related CO2 emissions. This plan also looks to the future of mobility in the city including the increasing role of shared mobility schemes, micro mobility options, electric vehicles (EV) and the application of technology in the mobility sector. Over the lifetime of the plan, Dublin City Council is committed to optimising the interconnection between land use and transport planning, aligning with the principles of the 15-minute city and proactively engaging with the relevant transport providers, agencies and external stakeholders to advance the delivery of key public transport infrastructure projects, providing improved walking and cycling infrastructure, and influencing travel behaviour, which together will assist modal shift and deliver an integrated and sustainable transport network. 8.2 Achievements The Council has been active in collaborating and progressing the following policies and projects since the adoption of the 2016-2022 Development Plan: ▪ The Luas Green line was extended with the Cross City opening in 2017, the Phoenix Park Tunnel was reopened late 2016 and the Clontarf section of the East Coast Trail, Phase Two of the Royal Canal Cycle Scheme and the South Campshires two-way cycle scheme have been completed. ▪ Reduced speed limits have been introduced and expanded to all residential roads. Major road schemes required to facilitate the build out of residential areas are also progressing, such as the new road networks in Belmayne, Ballymun, and Cherry Orchard.
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