Tramore Local Area Plan - Waterford County Council

Chapter 4: Economic Development4.1 EMPLOYMENT STRUCTURETramore is currently very much a dormitory town with a high percentage of itspopulation travelling to Waterford City and other urban destinations to work. IfTramore is to become a self sustaining town then this commuting pattern shallhave to be reversed. There has been limited industrial and commercialdevelopment in Tramore over the period of the last Plan. An objective of thisPlan is to reverse this trend and to provide sufficient zoned lands forcommercial/ retail and industrial development. It is therefore envisaged that overthe coming years the employment structure of Tramore shall changeconsiderably and shall lend itself to the positive reshaping of the town.An analysis of the distance travelled to work from the 2002 Census is a usefulindicator of where the residents of Tramore are employed. Approximately 27%work within 1 mile of their home. However, 35% travel 5-9 miles to work.(Waterford City is approximately 8 miles from Tramore, and is likely to accountfor most of this employment). While Tramore is becoming more self-sufficient,it is clearly still a satellite town of Waterford City in terms of employment. Theonly sizeable employment location at present is the Riverstown Industrial Park;therefore there is a limited employment base with a high level of commuting.Table 5:Journey toWork ..No. of persons20001500100050000milesJourney to Work - Distance travelled2002 CSO DATA1 mile 2miles3-4miles5-9miles10-14miles15-29miles30+milesnotstated1No. of miles4.2 EXISTING INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENTSince the adoption of the 2003 Plan,permission has been granted forindustrial unit/commercial units on allbut three of the sites at RiverstownBusiness Park. The remainingundeveloped light industrial landbankis therefore extremely limited. Therapid uptake of the sites at theRiverstown Business Park indicatesthat there is currently considerableTramore Industrial Park as viewed from theDunmore Rd1 2002 CSO data32