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3.4 AGENCIES WITH RESPONSIBILITY FOR RECREATIONAL PLANNING AND MANAGEMENT. Essentially there is no single agency that holds responsibility for recreational planning. This is, of itself, not a major issue provided the agencies concerned operate with each other to an agreed strategic perspective. The preparation of the Strategy will facilitate this process. Nonetheless it can be concluded that the Local Authorities along the Valley retain the most critical role in acting as planning authorities but also in their roles under Programme Group Six of their Statutory responsibilities. Having regard for the planning process there is a need to provide the institutional means to enable greater complementarity in planning terms. This is addressed in the previous chapter. In regard to the recreational and sports planning of the Authorities the extent of inter-action has been relatively limited and therefore requires consideration in the context of the Strategy. Nonetheless considerable progress has been made by the Authorities in the preparation of County/City based Strategies which address the long term expansion of facilities across the full extent of the Valley. A unified policy approach would probably address the inconsistencies in addressing local recreation need, rather than seeking at this point to engage in any organisational or institutional reform. 3.5 SPORTS POLICY 33 .. 55..11 DDeeppaarrttmmeenntt ooff AArr ttss ,, SSppoorrtt aanndd TToouu rr ii ss mm The Department of Arts, Sport and Tourism identifies the important role of sport in combating social issues such as drug abuse, exclusion and economic disadvantage, as well as opening up opportunities for employment and economic development. The Department states as one of its goals: “to formulate and oversee the implementation of policies for the promotion and development of sport and to encourage increased participation in sport and recreation, particularly by disadvantaged communities” (1) . Sports Unit 1 of the Department is responsible for the development of sport and recreational policy and capital programmes for the development of sport in Ireland, and Sports Unit 2 is responsible for major sports capital projects. In addition, Unit 2 is tasked with undertaking a national audit of local sports facilities, including a review of the current sport capital programme, and developing a long term strategy for the development of sporting facilities through out the country. (1) http://www.arts-sport-tourism.gov.ie/what%20we%20do/sport/wwd_sport.htm OFFICE OF PUBLIC WORKS ERM IRELAND Page 31
Sports Participation and Health among Adults in Ireland: Research Paper This research report (1) recognises that the provision of adequate and appropriate facilities for sport (ie the supply side of reasons why people do or do not participate) may have “considerable background or conditioning effects” in determining levels of participation. For example a “lack of footpaths or cycleway on roads may deter…from walking or cycling”. The report also recognises the health benefits, both physical and mental, of those partaking in even modest levels of sport. 3.6 HEALTH PROMOTION The National Health Promotion Strategy 2000 – 2005 The strategy (2) also notes a lack of physical activity as a contributor to poor health, and states as one of its strategic aims “…to increase participation in regular, moderate physical activity.” Physical Activity Campaigns A campaign called the 'get a life, get active' was launched in Dublin in May 2001, and later an emphasis on walking was incorporated into the programme. Running over eighteen months, the campaign included distribution of handbooks on physical activity, getting active and walking for a healthier heart. This campaign was followed up in June 2003 with a new physical activity campaign called ‘Let It Go, Just for 30 Minutes “…aimed at the 50 per cent of the population that does not engage in any form of regular physical activity.” (3) (1) Sports Participation and Health Among Adults in Ireland (undated). Irish Sports Council. (2) The National Health Promotion Strategy 2000 – 2005. Department of Health and Children, Health Promotion Unit. (3) http://www.healthpromotion.ie/campaigns/#physical_activity OFFICE OF PUBLIC WORKS ERM IRELAND Page 32
Page 1 and 2: ANNEX B - BASELINE AUDIT
Page 3 and 4: 1.3 METHODOLOGY In preparing this B
Page 5 and 6: 2 PLANNING IN THE LIFFEY VALLEY 2.1
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Page 9 and 10: Policy No Nature of Policy Appraisa
Page 13 and 14: • Consult with the E.S.B. with a
Page 17 and 18: LHA15 It is the policy of the Counc
Page 19 and 20: Table 3 Fingal County Development P
Page 21 and 22: Green Belt GBP2 To ensure that gree
Page 23 and 24: Table 4 Kildare County Development
Page 25 and 26: Landscape Character Areas RW3 To co
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Page 29 and 30: 3 POLICY 3.1 INTRODUCTION In additi
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Page 35 and 36: grew from the rapid accumulation of
Page 37 and 38: particular conservation importance
Page 39 and 40: at Lucan. Both these species have s
Page 41 and 42: esulting in an almost entirely clos
Page 43 and 44: There is a small stock of wild brow
Page 45 and 46: • an analysis of River Basin Dist
Page 47 and 48: Kilcullen area while the catchment
Page 49 and 50: Historic-settlement features: Holy
Page 51 and 52: y the firm of Shaw and Haughton. Mu
Page 53 and 54: front towards the river. A battleme
Page 55 and 56: Bridge 1. Of circa 1730s, which gav
Page 57 and 58: Iron works. Of circa 1870, of which
Page 59 and 60: century farm buildings; since 1898
Page 61 and 62: which a twelfth-century chancel has
Page 63 and 64: Hospital. Hospital/lepers' house of
Page 65 and 66: wood panelling of the highest quali
Page 67 and 68: Standing stone. Knockiernan. Megali
Page 69 and 70: seventeenth century, and from whom
Page 71 and 72: demesne. Inscription states: 'John
Page 73 and 74: Augustine founded by Justiciar Mile
Page 75 and 76: Church. Single-nave medieval parish
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Page 79 and 80: Mill. Ferrit's Mill noted in Simmon
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forty park attributes, for example,
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college. There were people of retir
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(1) (1) Attributes rated highest (1
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Table 6.4. Preferred attributes by
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Beyond this point, the components b
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