COMHAIRLE CONTAE ÁTHA CLIATH THEAS
SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL
MEETING OF SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL
Monday, November 14, 2016
HEADED ITEM NO. 14
HEADED ITEM: C. Performance and Change Management Directorate
COMMENCEMENT OF PART 8 FOR THE N81 LANDSCAPE IMPROVEMENT SCHEME
REPLY:
South Dublin Council’s Corporate Plan 2015-2019 has an objective to improve the appearance of South Dublin County in the interest of economic development. A key action under this objective is to improve the design of the landscape on the approach roads to our county.
The N81 is one of South Dublin’s main transport routes connecting significant numbers of commuters with the South Dublin administrative area and onwards to Dublin city centre. While it is only a few minutes' drive from the national motorway network, the route is unique in that it also serves as a very significant local artery connecting the many residential communities along its length with each other and with a variety of zones of commercial, business, industrial, educational, social and recreational activity. Given that the N81 is integral in the lives of many people who live and work in South Dublin, as well as its function as a major transport route bringing commuters, visitors, commercial and business interests to our county, it has been identified for enhanced landscape treatment.
The Council’s Public Realm Section is leading the project and a scheme of proposed landscape improvement works has been prepared to enhance the visual amenity of the N81 corridor within the South Dublin County Council administrative area. The aim of the project is to produce a high quality landscape setting with a distinctive identity that contributes to the residential and commercial vitality of South Dublin and presents the county as a place with a sense of welcome, opportunity and enterprise. The project area for this N81 Corridor Landscape Enhancement Scheme is the stretch of the N81 from its junction with the N82 into City West, to the junction with Old Bridge Road/Cypress Grove Road at the entrance to Templeogue village. It is envisaged the project will roll out over a number of phases over approx. 2 years with a capital budget currently of 750,000, which will increase to €1m in 2017.
The main proposals are as follows:
Whitestown Way to M50 roundabout.
Including a ‘County Town’ segment – (Whitestown Way to Old Bawn)
- Widening of the N81 median and landscape treatment between Belgard Road junction and Old Bawn road junction to achieve greater width in median to allow for a more urban median treatment with complementary treatment of the margins at this location.
- Upgrading of Old Bawn junction and entrance into Sean Walsh Park.
- Upgrade of the landscape treatment along medians to the east of Old Bawn Road junction with native tree planting (oaks) and upgrade of hedging.
- Linear park along Whitestown stream.
- New landscape treatment at Glenview roundabout
- Removal of earth berm in median to the west of the M50
- Mounds at Glenview – sculptural mounding to west of Kilsaran.
Citywest Road to Whitestown Way
- Junction at Fortunestown Road to get intensive landscape treatment.
- Open space at Drumcairn – Tree planting, paving, cycle and pedestrian walkways.
- Knockmore – upgraded boundary treatment and replace palisade with railings
- Kiltalown – linear park
- Upgrade of landscape treatment along medians to the west of Whitestown Way junction with native tree planting (oaks) and upgrade of hedging.
M50 – Templeogue Bridge
- Upgrade of landscape treatment to median
- Upgrade of landscape treatment to margins and open spaces adjacent to the road
- New landscape planting to road frontage at Tymon Park
- Spawell roundabout redesign central area
The project will be subject to a Part Vlll public consultation process and it is proposed to commence this process on the 17th of November 2016. The public consultation documents will be available on the public consultation portal at https://consult.sdublincoco.ie/ from that date.