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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF CLONDALKIN AREA COMMITTEE

Wednesday, December 15, 2021

MOTION NO.  7

MOTION: Councillor Peter Kavanagh

"This Area Committee calls for walkability audits for the urban areas within the Clondalkin LEA where such have not been carried out to date, with a view to increasing age-friendliness in our built environment."

REPORT:

The Traffic Section believe that walkability audits of the Urban areas within Clondalkin LEA is a necessary exercise to ascertain the quality of our travel network facilities.  In particular, the motion mentions increasing the age-friendliness of our built environment.  An age-friendly parking strategy is currently being drafted and will be brought to Council for adoption in 2022.  Items such as the adequate provision of mobility impaired parking, age friendly parking, sheltered bus stops, pedestrian crossings, footpath links, wayfinding and seating at key locations are all being provided through various funding programmes by the Council.

Our Active Travel team, Traffic team, Road Maintenance teams and our Transport partners such as the NTA are implementing a prioritised list of schemes to improve Active travel movements in the Clondalkin LEA. Walkability audits form an essential part of scheme selection in identifying gaps in our travel network.  The Council will continue to survey our travel network and prioritise our funding on the most essential infrastructure improvements with age-friendly facilities forming part of this programme of works.

In addition there is a planned objective for a Clondalkin LAP in the CE draft of new County Development Plan which reads as follows:

QDP14 Objective 3:

To prepare a LAP for Clondalkin, the extent of the boundary to be defined, which will be guided by the Local Area Plans Guidelines for Planning Authorities, 2013 (Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government) or any superseding guidelines which will incorporate:

# A vision for the development of Clondalkin

# wider urban design principles

# Framework plans for larger infill sites

# A local Green Infrastructure Strategy derived from the County GI Strategy

# Transport movement study.