Fingal County Council Development Plan Stage 2 Submission
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Fingal County Council Development Plan Stage 2 Submission ___________________________________________________ Cultural Centre with a place of worship, horticultural community & recreational areas ___________________________________________________ International Society for Krishna Consciousness (IRL) Ltd. Founder-Acarya His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada Member of the European Council of Hindu Organisations and National Council of Hindu Temples (UK) Ireland Office: 83 Middle Abbey Street Dublin 1 & 4 Aungier Street, Dublin 2, Rep. of Ireland. Phone: (01) 4750309 Fax: (01) 4786204 E-mail: [email protected] & [email protected] International Society for Krishna Consciousness (IRL) Ltd. Founder-Acarya His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada 83, Middle Abbey Street, Dublin 1, Ireland. Email: [email protected] & [email protected] Phone: (01) 4750309 Fax: (01) 4786204 To: Fingal County Council County Hall, Main Street, Swords, Co. Dublin K67 X8Y2. FINGAL DEVELOPMENT PLAN STAGE 2 - COVER LETTER The International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) includes over seven hundred major centers, temples and rural communities, nearly one hundred affiliated vegetarian restaurants, thousands of local meeting groups, a wide variety of community projects, and millions of congregational members worldwide. ISKCON has been a charitable organisation in Dublin since 1980, with a great record of working with the community in religious, multicultural and humanitarian areas. ISKCON also operates two vegetarian restaurants in Dublin City Centre, one on Middle Abbey Street and the other on Aungier Street Street, The restaurants are called ‘Govindas’. Our head office is at Middle Abbey Street, which also serves as the communities’ main cultural centre. Our proposal is to build a Cultural Centre with a place of worship, along with a horticultural community & recreational areas. Since ISKCON's inception in Ireland we have constantly been seeking a community building which reflects our lifestyle and caters for the ever growing Indian community in Dublin. Having been restricted to date to temporary leases, small halls and inappropriate locations, we now feel it is time to facilitate our community with a custom built centre and temple which will fulfill the social, spiritual, cultural and educational needs of our growing community. With our large indigenous membership, together with the Indian diaspora, ISKCON has demonstrated across the world how to fully cater for this community. Having our own organic farm in Fingal to provide vegetables for our restaurants in Dublin and having examined the Fingal Development Plan, we feel our application very much fits the objectives of your plan. Especially in the underlying areas: 1. Social Inclusion: Our target would be mainly new ethnic communities, children and young people, families and so on. 2. Sustainable Development: Supporting economic growth through the creation of jobs. 3. Healthy Lifestyles: By introducing simple living and high thinking. 4. By focusing on agriculture and horticulture 5. Supporting and exploring different forms of energy – Biomass, Solar energy, Water and Wind energy. 6. In terms of food production, manufacturing, rural based tourism and farm based activities. 7. The creation of parks, recreational areas and open space. For any further queries, please do not hesitate to contact us on (01) 4750309 or by Email at [email protected]. Sincerely, Martin Davis, Paul Murphy & Tim McEvitt. Board of Directors Table of Contents 1. INTRODUCTION ....................................................................................................................................................... 1 1.1. PURPOSE OF THIS DOCUMENT ..................................................................................................................................................... 1 1.2. INFORMATION ABOUT THE ORGANISATION ........................................................................................................................ 1 1.3. BOARD OF DIRECTORS AND COMMUNITY MEMBERS ..................................................................................................... 3 1.3.1. Directors .............................................................................................................................................................................................. 3 1.3.2. Community Members .................................................................................................................................................................... 4 1.4. OUR CURRENT ACTIVITIES AND FUTURE PLAN ................................................................................................................. 5 1.4.1 Teaching.................................................................................................................................................................................... 5 1.4.2 Yoga and Meditation ............................................................................................................................................................. 6 1.4.3. Cultural Events....................................................................................................................................................................... 6 Public Festivals ................................................................................................................................................................................. 6 Weddings ............................................................................................................................................................................................ 7 1.4.4. Food for all .............................................................................................................................................................................. 7 1.4.5. Farming .................................................................................................................................................................................... 7 2. ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN .................................................................................................................................... 8 3. OBSERVATIONS ...................................................................................................................................................... 10 3.1. CHAPTER 3 - PLACEMAKING ........................................................................................................................................................ 10 3.2 CHAPTER 5 - RURAL FINGAL ......................................................................................................................................................... 11 3.2.1. Agriculture ............................................................................................................................................................................ 12 3.2.2. Horticulture .......................................................................................................................................................................... 12 3.2.3. Agri food ................................................................................................................................................................................ 12 3.2.4. Rural tourism ...................................................................................................................................................................... 12 3.3. TARGET AREAS ..................................................................................................................................................................................... 13 4. OBSERVATION SUMMARY ................................................................................................................................... 14 5. APPENDICES ........................................................................................................................................................... 15 Appendix A. Rathayatra Parade in Dublin ........................................................................................................................................ 15 Appendix B - Summer Festival Celebrated in 2015 in Dublin, Galway, Cork & Belfast ............................................. 17 Appendix C - Weddings .............................................................................................................................................................................. 22 Appendix D- Government leaders visiting ISKCON ..................................................................................................................... 23 Fingal Development Plan Stage 2 Submission April 2016 1. INTRODUCTION The International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON IRELAND LIMITED) was incorporated in Dublin in 1980 and like many of its 700+ branches throughout the world; it has consistently catered for the Hindu Diaspora as well as a growing community of indigenous and international members. ISKCON's main aim is to bring members in the community closer together for the purpose of teaching a simpler and more natural way of life. In addition, the organisation wants to systematically propagate spiritual knowledge to society at large and to educate all peoples in the techniques of spiritual life in order to check the imbalance of values in life and to achieve real unity and