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