Oldtown Mooretown - Text - Fingal County Council

OLDTOWN - MOORETOWN
Local Area Plan
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l Provision of a pedestrian and cycle link along the
eastern side of the R108 Naul Road from the junction with
Brackenstown Road southward to the Knocksedan
housing estate.
Internal Road Network:
l Local access roads and pedestrian/cyclist links shall be
provided to open up the LAP lands to development as per
plan layout.
Road network improvements which shall be provided outside
of plan lands:
l Upgrade 3 roundabouts on Glen Ellan Road to cyclist
friendly roundabouts.
l Major upgrade and realignment of the junction of Glen
Ellan Road with Balheary Road.
l Widen Balheary Road to 4 lanes between the Glen Ellan
Road and Castlegrange junctions over 300m length. This
will encroach on public park area to the east.
l Widen link road to 4 lanes between Castlegrange and
R132 Estuary junctions.
l Major capacity improvement at the R132 Estuary
junction (unless previously delivered by Metro North
project).
Swords Western Quality Bus Corridor
l Bus priority measures within Oldtown LAP area and via
Glen Ellan Road to Rathbeale Road Junction.
l Bus lanes over 150m length on the northern approach to
the junction of Rathbeale Road and Murrough Road.
A review of the traffic modelling and analysis undertaken as
part of the Transport Network Study by Roughan O’Donovan
shall be undertaken by the Planning Authority at the end of
each phase of development. This review shall be used to assist
in assessing individual TIA’s and shall ultimately feed in to the
mid-term review of the LAP.
A Transport Impact Assessment (TIA) shall be submitted with
each application for development, unless otherwise agreed
with the planning authority. Fingal County Council
Transportation Department shall be consulted prior to the
submission of any TIA.