Donabate Urban Centre Strategy Fingal County Council

9.0 Environmental Improvements
Wastewater
Treatment
Pumping Station
►Section BB
ENVIRONMENTAL IMPROVEMENT AREA 2
Northern Gateway - The Hand Junction: Main Street, Portrane Road &
Beaverstown Road Junction
This junction is an important gateway into the town of Donabate. In the short to
medium term the site that forms the junction is required to house a waste water
treatment pumping station. Landscaping and screening to this pumping station will
be critical to maintain and enhance this important focal site.
It is proposed to reduce the width of carriageway to 6.5 metres, widen the
footpaths and introduce a pedestrian crossing on the junction. The widened
footpath will become a focal point at the end of all three roads approaching the
junction, with semi-mature street trees and appropriate street furniture. Rumble
strips at regular intervals along Portrane Road and Beaverstown Road will further
reduce traffic speed and indicate an arrival at the centre of the town.It is proposed
to use stone kerbs defining the new road alignment with good quality stone paving
on pedestrian paths. Rumble strips will be rough-cut granite setts set into the
tarmacadam surface. It is also proposed to create a new path on the south side of
Portrane Road, leading around the bend to link it with Main Street. This will be
‘hoggin’ or binded gravel and will run inside the existing trees along this boundary
retaining the rural nature of this area.
Donabate Urban Centre Strategy 40
►Section AA