The document provides background information and context for developing a framework plan for a 6.28 hectare site located at the junction of Swords Road and Collins Avenue in Dublin. It describes the site's history, demographics of the area, existing open spaces and neighborhood facilities. An analysis of the site and surrounding area will inform the creation of a vision, structuring concept and strategies to guide future development of the lands.

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2. Consultation - thanks are due to the following
• North Central Area Office • DCU
• City Architects • Holy Child Boys NS
• Roads Department • St Kevins Boys Club
• Parks Department • Plunket College
• Culture and Leisure Services • Maryfield College
• Housing Department • St Aidans CBS
• Planning Department • Whitehall College of Further Education
• QBN • Home Farm Football Club
• Port Tunnel Project Office • Respond Housing Asociation
• Barina Construction • Whitehall Colmcille GAA Club
• Whitehall Parish Church • Margaret Aylward CDVEC School
• Highfield Hospital Group
• Larkhill Infant/Senior Girls/Boys School
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3. Contents
1.0 Introduction
1.1 The Brief
1.2 The Site
1.3 Site Context
1.4 Historical Development
1.5 Demographic Trends
1.6 Neighbourhood Facilities
2.0 Policy Context
2.1 National
2.2 Regional
2.3 Local
2.4 Sustainability
3.0 Analysis
3.1 Character of Area
3.2 Connectivity
3.3 Public open Space
3.4 Sports and Play Facilities
3.5 Public Transport and Accessibility
3.6 Site Analysis
4.0 Summary of Issues
5.0 Vision and Structuring Concept
6.0 Framework Concept
6.1 Proposed Site Layout A
6.2 Detailed Scheme North
7.0 Strategies
7.1 Movement
7.2 Movement Strategies
7.3 Public Space Strategy
7.4 Land Use and Density
7.5 Building Heights
7.6 Capacity Study
8.0 Urban Design Performance Specification
8.1 Urban Standards
Appendix
Open Space Audit
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5. 1.0 Introduction
1.1 The Brief
DMD were commissioned by Dublin City
Council to prepare a Schematic Framework
Plan and Site Brief for the lands previously
used as the Port Tunnel Depot at the junction
of Swords Road and Collins Avenue, together
with the adjacent development site, all zoned
Z12 in the Dublin City Development Plan
2005-2011 (DCDP). The main objective is to
provide a schematic development framework
for the site outlined in red on the attached
plan, based on supporting studies as itemised
below and as required by the brief.
The plan is based on an analysis of the wider
study area, particularly in respect of move-
ment and access to the surrounding facilities
and includes an audit of open spaces within a
wider study area, identified in green on the
extract of the DCDP on p15 below. From this,
a structuring concept / framework plan was
prepared, together with a public domain strat-
egy and hierarchy and supported by built
form, land use, and movement strategies.
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6. 1.0
1.2 The Site
The site is located to the south east of the The area enjoys a large public open space
junction of the Swords Road and Collins amenity, at Ellenfield park, immediately north
Avenue, Dublin 9. of the church and a mere 270m from Collins
Ave. This park is intensively used for sports
In total it measures 6.28 Hectares and is predominantly by the two clubs in the area,
divided into two ownerships. The northern St. Kevins Football Club and Whitehall
portion in Dublin City Council ownership Colmcilles, for soccer and gaelic football
measures 3.7 hectares while the site to the respectively.
south in private ownership measures 3.1
hectares. Hampstead Park lies to the west just outside
the study area, supplementing the active play
facilities available nearby.
1.3 Site Context
The site is strategically located at the junction
of two major roads, one, the historic radial
running from the north into the city centre,
and the other, Collins Avenue, providing an
inner orbital connection from Killester to
Finglas, approximately half way from the M50
and the city centre.
A short distance to the north of this junction,
the M1 runs into the port tunnel and the car-
riageway reduces to the four lane Swords
Road as it passes the site.
The area is predominantly residential in char-
acter, with a significant number of large insti-
tutions, including DCU and Highfield Hospital
lands on both sides of the Swords Road,
together with a total of eight schools, four
infant or primary and the remainder post pri-
mary.
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7. 1.0
1.4 Historical Development
At the end of the nineteenth century, Whitehall The linkages between the Gaeltacht Park
was a small settlement on either side of the scheme and the Larkhill estate are an indica-
Swords Road, enhanced by the arrival of a tion of the strong town planning philosophy
tram service by 1908. Prior to this it was per- within the corporation at the time and which
haps best known for the hospital established they brought to bear on these very different
by Dr Eustace in 1825 at Hampstead Hotel to schemes.
cater for ‘Patients of the Upper Class suffer-
ing from mental and nervous diseases’. The The social infrastructure that followed the
hospital has since been considerably expand- new suburbs included the Holy Child church,
ed encompassing several buildings on either facing the Swords Road, providing a familiar
side of the Swords Road, including Highfield landmark at the entrance into Dublin. The
and Elmhurst. church now also marks the entrance to the
Dublin Port tunnel, completed in 2006.
The modern day suburb of Whitehall owes
much of its character to the activities of the Shops were provided at the entrance to the
Dublin Corporation, both as a builder and as Gaeltacht Park scheme in the 1930’s, as
a land developer. In the case of Ellenfield, were additional shops on Collins Avenue with
and Larkhill, north of the newly extended cinema in 1938.
Collins Avenue, on either side of the Swords
Road, the corporation took on the responsi-
bility of constructing large housing schemes,
completed in 1939, and including 370 hous-
es.
A different approach was taken in the case of
the scheme at Gaeltacht Park, completed in
1934. Originally earmarked for Irish speakers
by Nua Gaeltacht, several different public util-
ity associations were eventually responsible
for the completion of the scheme, under the
close eye of the corporation.
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