An Economic and Spatial Plan for Limerick Appendices

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Limerick 2030 An Economic and Spatial Plan for Limerick Public Realm and Open Space Recent years have seen a growing awareness across Europe of the importance of high quality public space in generating foot-fall and creating value. For Limerick to succeed in attracting trade back from the out of centre competing schemes it needs to offer a much better and more diverse streetscape encouraging use over a longer part of the day. Improvements have been made in Limerick in recent years through the partial implementation of the public realm strategy, but it is now time for a rethink of the strategy in tandem with wider proposals for business, retail, leisure and tourism renewal. June 2013 76
Limerick 2030 An Economic and Spatial Plan for Limerick Limerick City Council has in place a plan to remodel and pedestrianise much of Limerick’s Centre including the development of a new Orbital Route - largely in place and aims to still give traffic access to the heart of the City. The aim of this is stated as giving pedestrians priority in the heart of Limerick City and to improve the streetscapes and traffic management. We do not believe that the current regime achieves this, nor represents the optimal system. Strengths The River Shannon, provides an accessible river walk and expansive views of the City and the river corridor; The Abbey River and Canal offer more intimate walking experiences; The west and east sides of the River are accessible and provide a public realm ring via Thomond, Sarsfield and Shannon Bridges; People’s Park is a high quality urban park, strong linked to the Limerick City Gallery of Art and providing a place for respite from the City; The City Centre is home to a wide variety of walkable streets, with integrated public realm and building characters in the Georgian and Medieval quarters; New streetscape schemes have been installed which have improved the public realm; The canal corridor provides a direct link to communities on the edge of Limerick and the University of Limerick; Baker Place and John’s Square are small, but high quality urban squares. Challenges There is an absence of squares and plazas typically found in City Centres; The City Centre is still a car dominated centre; There is a danger of ‘over-designing’ the public realm – too much street clutter; More thought is required on the choice of materials etc - for example seating that is comfortable for users; The pedestrian quality of streets is impacted by road traffic – especially the one-way system and on-street parking; The riverfront public realm varies in quality and the pedestrian connections have barriers; There is an absence of a connected framework of public spaces and streets that brings the central city districts together; June 2013 77
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