Technological University Dublin ARROW@TU Dublin Students Learning with Communities: All of these projects were undertaken in collaboration with community partners and supervised by TU Dublin Access and Civic Engagement Office academic staff members 2017 Draft Planning Scheme: Postgraduate Urban Design Student Project on Behalf of Fingal County Council David O'Connor Technological University Dublin Follow this and additional works at: https://arrow.tudublin.ie/comlinkoth Part of the Education Commons Recommended Citation O'Connor, David, "Draft Planning Scheme: Postgraduate Urban Design Student Project on Behalf of Fingal County Council" (2017). Students Learning with Communities: All of these projects were undertaken in collaboration with community partners and supervised by academic staff members. 44. https://arrow.tudublin.ie/comlinkoth/44 This Report is brought to you for free and open access by the TU Dublin Access and Civic Engagement Office at ARROW@TU Dublin. 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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 4.0 License Draft Planning Scheme DIT MSc Spatial Planning 2016-2017 Postgraduate Urban Design Student Project on behalf of Fingal County Council May 2017 1 Contents 1 INTRODUCTION .............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 4 1.1 Methodology & Approach........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 4 1.2 Plan Area & Statutory Context .................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 5 2 THE SITE & ITS CONTEXT ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ 7 2.1 Regional & Strategic Context ...................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 7 2.2 Site Location and Analysis ........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 8 2.3.1 Historical context ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ 8 2.3.2 Site Appraisal and Opportunities .................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 9 2.3.3 The Kellystown Opportunity ......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 13 3 PROJECT VISION & MASTERPLAN ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ 14 3.1 The Vision .................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 14 3.2 The Masterplan ......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 14 4 NATURE OF PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT ...................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 19 4.1 Character Area, Urban Form and Density Framework ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 19 4.1.1 Green Character Area ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 20 4.1.2 Eastern Quadrant Character Area ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 22 4.1.3 Core Character Area ...................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 32 4.1.4 Western Quadrant Character Area ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 36 4.1.5 Clonsilla Character Area ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ 41 4.2 Heights & Typology ........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 45 5 TRANSPORTATION, MOVEMENT AND MOBILITY FRAMEWORK................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 47 5.1 Overview ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 47 5.2 Public Transport ........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ 47 5.3 Walking and Cycling .................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 48 5.4 Road Network ........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 48 5.4.1 Distributor Roads .......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 48 5.4.2 Collector Road ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 49 5.4.3 Access/Home-zone Roads ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................