Swords Masterplan - Fingal County Council

6.3 Movement Strategy
OBJECTIVES
● To provide for a legible and permeable high quality urban
environment, readily recognisable and easy to move around.
● To provide for a network of well-designed safe, direct and attractive
pedestrian and cycle routes throughout the development lands,
linking these lands to Main Street, Cultural Quarter, Metro Quarter
and Barrysparks development area.
● To ensure the Pavilions development provides for the ultimate
integration with the surrounding transport network, particularly with
the Swords Metro Stop at ground and first floor level, with the
vehicular road network (‘Metro Box’*) below ground level, with the
public transport bridge over the R132 and vehicular connections to
Dublin Street/Road and Malahide Road, as each element of this
transport infrastructure comes on stream.
PERMEABILITY
The Pavilions site is bound by Dublin Street/Road to the west, R132 and proposed
Swords Metro Stop to the east and Malahide Road to the north. This site must
integrate physically with the Town Centre and ensure permeability and
accessibility by all modes of transport, including public transport, pedestrians,
cyclists and private car.
CONNECTIVITY
Connectivity between the Pavilions urban extension area and the surrounding
lands will be supported overtime via:
● Pedestrian connectivity to the Cultural Quarter, Main Street, Metro Quarter
and Malahide Place.
● Public transport, cycle and pedestrian connectivity from the Malahide Road
over the R132 to Barrysparks.
● Connection with the Swords Metro Stop (multi-modal transport interchange).
● Private car access via R132 and Metro Box*; access from the Dublin Street/Road
(south of Cultural Quarter); and from Malahide Road.
STREET PATTERN
The following network of streets is proposed [see map Movement Strategy –
Pavilions Development]:
Three main streets:
● Central Street
A direct 24 hour pedestrian street, ‘Central Street’, will traverse the site
east-west, thereby providing a direct link from Main Street/Cultural Quarter
area to the Metro Quarter. This street, which is an inclined street, will
* Metro Box is an underground vehicular connection across the R132, associated ramps, and necessary
realignment of the R132 locally, in order to provide for access to lands zoned ‘Swords Town Centre’
east and west of the R132, as shown in the Fingal Development Plan 2005 to 2011. This Metro Box plan
was adopted under Part 8.
continue over the R132 connecting west and east Swords, specifically bulk of
residential and new mixed-use development at Barrysparks.
● The Rise
The Rise will be an inclined street, which rises at a slope of less than 1:20
from existing ground level on the Malahide Road to level +1 at the Metro
Plaza, returning to ground level within the Barrysparks site. This 24 hour
route will accommodate public transport connecting Main Street to the
Barrysparks lands and interchanging with the Metro Stop via the Metro Plaza.
● South Street
To the south of the scheme, there will be a 24 hour residential street, ‘South
Street’. This street traverses the site east-west and is accessed from Dublin
Street/Road and may in the future connect over the R132 to the lands on the
east. The street slopes from level 0 at Dublin Street/Road to +1 within the site.
The street will be well landscaped to ensure enhanced residential amenity
for existing and future residents in this area.
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Side Streets:
A number of north-south connecting side streets are proposed to support the
east-west permeability provided by Central Street, The Rise and South Street.
Metro Plaza:
The Pavilions site will be designed and developed to integrate with the Metro
Quarter. The Metro Quarter comprises a Metro plaza/podium at the upper
ground level and a bridge structure over the R132, connecting the Pavilions and
Barrysparks sites to each other and to the Town Centre. There will be 3 vertical
circulation nodes to facilitate multi-modal private and public movement at this
location [see Section 7 addressing Metro Quarter]. The Metro plaza/podium will
provide a well designed destination node and potential meeting place for those
arriving by Metro or bus to Swords Town Centre.