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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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- Green Infrastructure and Recreation | Chapter 10 331 10.5.7 Urban Forest The city’s urban forest consists of street trees, garden trees, trees in parks and open spaces, hedge lines and woodlands. Trees bring extensive benefits to the city by humanising space, enhancing the environment and minimising the impacts of climate change. They provide ecosystem services such as cleaning air, providing natural water management / flood control and creating diverse habitats while also storing carbon, cooling the urban environment, masking noise and acting as a wind barrier. Trees link green spaces, make attractive streets and neighbourhoods and promote a general sense of well-being. The 2017 Dublin Tree Canopy Study identified that there are some 300,000 trees in Dublin City covering some 10% of the city’s land area. It identified a low canopy cover between the canals in the city centre and an axis of low canopy cover running from the Grand Canal to the south west City boundary. Ecological surveys and habitat management plans for woodlands in the Tolka Valley, St. Anne’s and Bushy Parks have been prepared and the 2006 citywide hedgerow survey has been updated to inform future woodlands and hedgerow management. The next Dublin Tree Strategy will establish urban forestry plans for the city, provide a target for an increased level of tree cover and will prioritise locations for tree planting. It is the Policy of Dublin City Council: GI40 Tree Planting - General To require appropriate and long-term tree and native hedgerow planting in the planning of new development, urban spaces, streets, roads and infrastructure projects. New development should seek to provide for additional tree planting using a diversity of species including native species as appropriate to the location of the development in the interests of natural heritage, amenity, environmental quality and climate resilience. GI41 Protect Existing Trees as Part of New Development To protect existing trees as part of new development, particularly those that are of visual, biodiversity or amenity quality and significance. There will be a presumption in favour of retaining and safeguarding trees that make a valuable contribution to the environment. GI42 Tree Management To adopt a pro-active and systematic good practice approach to tree management with the aim of promoting good tree health, condition, diversity, public amenity and a balanced age-profile and as per Dublin City Tree Strategy 2016.
- Green Infrastructure and Recreation | Chapter 10 332 It is the Policy of Dublin City Council: GI43 Hedgerows To protect and enhance the City’s hedgerow network, in particular, hedgerows that form townland, parish and barony boundaries. It is Council policy to increase hedgerow coverage and promote the planting of hedgerows in new developments using native species. GI44 Resilient Urban Forest To deliver and manage a resilient urban forest for the City to help increase resilience to the effects of climate change to consist of native and exotic trees and to target and prioritise locations in the city with a low canopy cover for an increased level of tree cover. It is an Objective of Dublin City Council: GIO41 Dublin City Tree Strategy 2016 To support the implementation of the Dublin City Tree Strategy 2016 and any future revision thereof, which sets a vision for the long-term planting, protection and maintenance of trees, hedgerows and woodlands within Dublin City. GIO42 Trees as Wildlife Corridor or ‘Stepping Stones’ To protect trees, hedgerows or groups of trees which function as wildlife corridors or ‘stepping stones’ in accordance with Article 10 of the EU Habitats Directive. GIO43 Urban Tree Canopy Plan To support the preparation of an Urban Tree Canopy Plan for the city centre area and inner city in the lifetime of this plan. To increase the tree canopy cover to a minimum of 10% in all areas with an emphasis in increasing the tree canopy cover in areas where there is a deficit, and a minimum of 5% each year in the city centre (a minimum of 5% per year over 6 years = a minimum of 30% over the life time of the plan).
- Green Infrastructure and Recreation | Chapter 10 333 Figure 10-4: Existing Tree Preservation Orders (TPOs)
- Green Infrastructure and Recreation | Chapter 10 334 10.5.8 Sport, Recreation and Play Increased physical activity helps improve the health and wellbeing of all people living and working in the City. For reasons of public health, a sustainable environment and social cohesion, the Healthy Ireland, A Framework for Improved Health and Wellbeing 2019 - 2025, the National Physical Activity Plan 2016 and Sport Ireland Participation Plan 2021 – 2024 set out objectives to increase physical activity levels across the whole population through formal sport and through enabling people to access parks and to walk and cycle to their daily destinations. Enabling opportunities for physical activity and active living is a priority of this Plan and a critical element in achieving healthy places. Dublin City Council will continue to renew and develop sport and recreation facilities throughout the city and support their provision by community and private organisations. In this regard, the very important role that sporting and social clubs play in enhancing the social and recreation life of the city communities is acknowledged. Facilities and increased participation in sport for all people at all stages in their lifecycle and all abilities inclusive of girls/women and diverse cultures is required. The Dublin City Council-led Sport and Wellbeing Partnership (DCSWP) will continue to work towards improving opportunities to enable Dublin’s citizens and workers to be physically active via targeted programmes and initiatives. The DCSWP is leading the Active Cities Project which sets out a goal for everyone in Dublin to have both the opportunity and motivation to actively participate in sport and physical activity with a vision that maintaining an active lifestyle could become an accepted part of the cultural norm in Dublin. Playing is the most important aspect of a child’s daily life. Dublin City Council is committed to enabling local, accessible and inclusive opportunities to play for children and young people. The Dublin City Play Strategy ‘Pollinating Play!’ 2021 – 2025 is underpinned by the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) Article 31; the child’s right to play. It advocates for a child-friendly and playful city where all children and young people (ages 0-18) can enjoy and fully exercise their right to play and have child friendly physical activity. This would include access to playgrounds, youth focused spaces and opportunities for play friendly neighbourhoods and public realm. The city’s extensive permeable network of public streets, footpaths and cycleways provides people with access to the city’s major recreational amenities such as the coast, the city’s rivers and to the city’s numerous parks and open spaces. Figure 10-5 identifies and maps the strategic Public Rights of Way (PROW) in the city. Many of these PROW incorporate / will incorporate Metropolitan Greenways or other public domain areas thereby, promoting and enabling wider regional recreation and tourism objectives and also sustainable travel modes.
- Green Infrastructure and Recreation | Chapter 10 335 It is the Policy of Dublin City Council: GI45 National Physical Activity Plan 2016 To improve the health and well-being of communities by increasing access to participation in sports, recreation and healthy activity in line with the National Physical Activity Plan 2016, the Healthy Ireland Framework 2019 – 2025 and the Sport Ireland Participation Plan 2021 – 2024. GI46 To Improve and Upgrade/ Provide Access to Sports / Recreational Facilities To improve and upgrade existing sports/recreational facilities in the city and to ensure the availability of and equal access to a range of recreational facilities to the general population of all ages and groups (including women/girls and minority sports) at locations throughout the city, including housing complexes. In areas where a deficiency exists, Dublin City Council will work with the providers of such facilities, including schools, institutions and private operators, to ensure access to the local population. GI47 Private Recreational Lands To support the development of private recreational lands for recreational purposes. GI48 Multiple Use of Sports and Recreational Facilities To maximise the multiple use of sports and recreation facilities by encouraging the co-location of services between sports providers, schools, colleges and other community facilities. GI49 Protection of Existing and Established Sport and Recreational Facilities To protect existing and established sport and recreation facilities, including pitches, unless there is clear evidence that there is no long term need for the facility; unless the loss would be replaced by equivalent or better provision in terms of quantity or quality in an accessible and suitable location; or the development is for alternative sports and recreational provision, or required to meet other open space deficiencies, the benefits of which would clearly outweigh the loss of the former or current use. GI50 Fenced Playing Pitches on Existing Open Space To protect public open space and to generally restrict the development of fenced playing pitches on existing open space areas where it would exclude the use of the open space for other amenity related purposes when matches are not in progress.
- Green Infrastructure and Recreation | Chapter 10 336 It is the Policy of Dublin City Council: GI51 Children’s Playing Facilities - General To seek the provision of children’s playing facilities that encompasses local and public places and spaces for play that are accessible and inclusive for children and young people of all ages, abilities and socio-economic backgrounds. GI52 Children’s Playing facilities in New Residential and Mixed Developments To seek the provision of children’s playing facilities in new residential developments and mixed developments with a residential element. To provide playgrounds to an appropriate standard of amenity, safety, and accessibility and to create safe and accessible places for socialising and informal play. GI53 Public Rights of Way To protect public rights of way as shown on Figure 10-5. It is an Objective of Dublin City Council: GIO44 National Public Health Policy To support the objectives of public health policy including Healthy Ireland Framework 2019 - 2025 and the National Physical Activity Plan 2016. GIO45 Active Cities Project To support the work of the Dublin City Sports & Wellbeing Partnership and the Dublin Active Cities Project in creating, maintaining and increasing the numbers of people, of all ages, gender and ability, participating in sport and physical activity in the city. GIO46 Playing Fields Study To carry out a playing fields study to better measure the use and management (quality) of playing pitches and to examine the level of pitch provision required as a result of planned population growth, increased female participation in sport and the increase in demand for sports playing pitches. GIO47 Liaising with Sporting Organisations To liaise and work with sporting organisations to ensure where possible, that the City Council responds to the needs of sports clubs and communities in the provision of quality facilities.
- Green Infrastructure and Recreation | Chapter 10 337 It is an Objective of Dublin City Council: GIO48 Multi Sports Hub in Conjunction with Fingal County Council To investigate the potential for the provision of a multi sports hub in the outer suburbs to service the growing demand for pitch facilities in conjunction with Fingal County Council. GIO49 Dublin City Play Strategy ‘Pollinating Play’ 2021 To support the implementation of the Dublin City Play Strategy ‘Pollinating Play’ 2021 – 2025 which aims to provide inclusive and accessible play opportunities for children and young people and the integration of play provision and child friendly neighbourhoods. GIO50 Play Friendly Communities To support and encourage the development of play-friendly communities that provide time and space and permission for ‘everyday street play’, opportunities and experiences and play in urban public space. GIO51 STRIDE: 2017 – 2020 To support the preparation and implementation of a new Dublin City Sport & Wellbeing Partnership Strategy. GIO52 Dalymount Park, Tolka Park and St. Patrick’s Athletic FC Richmond Park To redevelop Dalymount Park, Tolka Park and St. Patrick’s Athletic FC Richmond Park soccer stadia providing enhanced sporting, recreational and community amenities and as part of this development plan to celebrate the rich sporting history of these sites. GIO53 Informal Recreational Space – Undeveloped Land To examine the possibility of using suitable undeveloped land temporarily as informal recreational space. GIO54 Water Sports and Leisure Activities To support the development of a public lido at George’s Dock, and to strive to achieve this within the first three years of the Development Plan being adopted, and to provide other water sports and leisure activities in the city centre and at the River Liffey, canals and other key water bodies. GIO55 Olympic Standard Velodrome To support the development of an Olympic standard velodrome in the city region.
- Green Infrastructure and Recreation | Chapter 10 338 It is an Objective of Dublin City Council: GIO56 Marrowbone Lane Depot To develop the council owned depot at Marrowbone Lane as a Green Infrastructure and Recreational Area. GIO57 Public Rights of Way To identify further significant public rights of way during the lifetime of the development plan and to update the ‘Public Rights of Way’ map.
- Green Infrastructure and Recreation | Chapter 10 339 Figure 10-5: Public Rights of Way
- Built Heritage and Archaeology | Chapter 11 340 Chapter 11: Built Heritage and Archaeology
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