Castleknock Urban Centre Strategy - Fingal County Council

Fingal County Council
Ashleigh Shopping
Centre
Castleknock Shopping Centre
1.9 Fingal County Retail Strategy
Comhairle Contae Fhine Gall
The County Council is required to ensure that adequate provision is
made for retail development and that such retail development is
satisfactorily distributed across the county. The Retail Strategy
contained in the County Development Plan establishes a hierarchy of
retail centres where various formats and scales of retail
development are to take place. In the Dublin 15 context the
Blanchardstown Shopping Centre is the regional centre for the area
while Castleknock is designated as a “Traditional Suburban/Village
Centre” at the District level below this (Level 4). The core policy of
the Retail Strategy relating to such district level centres is:
Strategy SS8:
Metropolitan Area Traditional Suburban Village Centres
To facilitate and encourage improvement and investment in the
Traditional Suburban Village Centres within the County to ensure
that their role, importance and attraction is sustained.
Strategically it is Council Policy to develop Castleknock as a vibrant
mixed-use centre at the district scale for its catchment area with a
commensurate level of retail, office, employment, residential and
local services development.
The strategy recognises that the villages in this traditional suburban
category are long established and play a vital role in their respective
communities. The strategy also recognises the need to sustain the
attraction and importance of these centres through investment by
both the public and private sectors in the public realm, traffic
management and property/product enhancement.
In particular, the strategy highlights the importance of the
environment of the centre in attracting trade and achieving vitality
and viability of centres like Castleknock.
10 Castleknock Urban Centre Strategy