Greening the City
A green city is a healthy city. By protecting and enhancing open spaces for biodiversity and recreational use the city not only becomes more sustainable, it becomes a more attractive place to live, work and visit.
In recent years Dublin City Council has achieved statutory protection for Bull Island, published the Biodiversity Action Plan and created several new parks including Cherry Orchard Park and Fr. Collins Park. The city has also recently benefitted from new facilities such as the Croke Park and Aviva stadia, the Ballyfermot Leisure Centre and playing pitches in Ringsend Park and Herbert Park.
In the years ahead we must protect and enhance vulnerable natural areas, recognise the potential of current open space for improvement, balance biodiversity with recreational needs and promote play spaces and sports facilities at local level.
The Greening the City priority is about realizing these goals; making Dublin a safer, healthier, more open place to live.
The Greening the City priority contains many specific policies and objectives to guide the development of Dublin.
Policies include: |
Objectives include: |
GC1:To progress a strategic network as illustrated in the Strategic Green Network map |
GCO22:To support the implementation of the 'Dublin City Biodiversity Action Plan 2008-12' |
GC3:To make provision for habitat creation/maintenance and facilitate biodiversity by encouraging the development of linear parks, nature trails, wildlife corridors and urban woodlands |
GCO25:To involve children and young people in greening initiatives and biodiversity projects, having regard to their need to interact with and be educated by nature |
GC12:To ensure that in new residential developments, public open space is provided which is sufficient in quantity and distribution to meet the requirements of the projected population, including play facilities for children |
GCO16:To support on a phased basis, the development of allotments on appropriate sites in the city |
GC22:To seek the continued improvement of water quality, bathing facilities and other recreational opportunities in the coastal, estuarine and surface waters in the city |
GCO19:To enhance the amenities of the river valleys of the Santry and Mayne rivers and to protect the drainage and environmental role of the Kilbarrack Stream, Grange River and Nanikin River |