Swords Masterplan - Fingal County Council

3. The Southern Edge [see Cross Sections]
CHARACTER
● The southern edge will be a domestic scale residential street, South Street,
mediating between the suburban scale of the existing Carlton Court and the
urban scale of the Town Centre.
● The impact of the change in level between the proposed South Street and
Carlton Court should be mitigated by screening with trees along the
boundary wall line and supplemented with similar scale trees at the South
Street level.
DESIGN
● The building form and heights along the southern edge shall be constrained
to respond to the existing scale and character of Carlton Court, to avoid
overlooking and overshadowing and significant visual dominance.
● The existing boundary wall shall be retained.
● Buildings shall be set back and profiled within an angle of incidence of 30º
for a distance of 45m from the boundary wall.
● A minimum 3 metre wide continuous densely planted tree screen and
landscape corridor shall be provided adjoining the edge with the residential
development. The trees shall be semi mature, with an initial height of 6m,
and these intermediate sized trees shall be spaced and inter-planted to
create a continuous screen above the current boundary wall. The planting
shall be wholly at ground level and into natural ground with suitable root
space to allow the trees to grow to maturity.
● The massing of the residential elements along South Street should be
broken up by inter-planting street trees to the same scale as Malahide
Road. Trees should be planted in recessed planting pits with appropriate
irrigation systems provided.
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S W O R D S M A S T E R P L A N
INDICATIVE EDGE SECTION 1.0 – SOUTHERN EDGE
INDICATIVE EDGE SECTION 2.0 – SOUTHERN EDGE
INDICATIVE EDGE ELEVATION 5.0 TO SOUTHERN EDGE
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