{"id":847,"date":"2018-07-27T14:53:42","date_gmt":"2018-07-27T14:53:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidhealy.dublin13.com\/?p=847"},"modified":"2023-12-20T14:12:18","modified_gmt":"2023-12-20T14:12:18","slug":"portmarnock-to-baldoyle-greenway-gets-go-ahead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidhealy.com\/?p=847","title":{"rendered":"Portmarnock to Baldoyle Greenway gets go-ahead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Bord Plean\u00e1la has approved the Baldoyle to Portmarnock Greenway. Here&#8217;s the <a href=\"https:\/\/davidhealy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ABP-300840-18.doc\">decision.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Provision of this important link for people walking and cycling in the Baldoyle and Portmarnock areas has been a priority for local residents and Councillors.\u00a0 This is an important part of a wider network. The use of segregated routes to link the suburban towns in the area is an approach I hope will be followed. This is also an amenity route similar to the coastal promenade from Sutton to Sandycove and gives access to the new parkland between Baldoyle and Portmarnock.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">I particular welcome the scaling down of the lighting proposed for the route, which I called for in my submission. It is very positive to see An Bord Plean\u00e1la take proper account of the impact on bats and on the visual character of the Green Belt by requiring that the lighting be by bollards rather than the 6m poles originally proposed.<\/span><\/p>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div class=\"gmail_default\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div class=\"gmail_default\">Further info:<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"gmail_default\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/davidhealy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/response-to-baldoyle-to-portmarnock-greenway-consultation.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">My submission\u00a0<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">to An Bord Plean\u00e1la<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div class=\"gmail_default\"><a href=\"https:\/\/consult.fingal.ie\/en\/consultation\/baldoyle-and-portmarnock-pedestrian-and-cyclist-scheme\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Information on the application and submissions \u00a0<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Wider context of work on Greenways in Fingal (<a href=\"https:\/\/davidhealy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Item-3-Fingal-Greenways.docx\">Report to Planning and Strategic Infrastructure SPC 23rd July<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">)<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Bord Plean\u00e1la has approved the Baldoyle to Portmarnock Greenway. Here&#8217;s the decision. Provision of this important link for people walking and cycling in the Baldoyle and Portmarnock areas has been a priority for local residents and Councillors.\u00a0 This is an important part of a wider network. The use of segregated routes to link the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,62,13,73],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidhealy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidhealy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidhealy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidhealy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidhealy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=847"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/davidhealy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1665,"href":"https:\/\/davidhealy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847\/revisions\/1665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidhealy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidhealy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidhealy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}