Phoenix Park Conservation Management Plan

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Minister’s Foreward The Phoenix Park is a historic landscape of international importance and one of the largest designed landscapes in any European city. It was originally established as a Royal deer park nearly 350 years ago and its historic continuity, together with its vast scale, urban setting and tranquillity, are the attributes that define it. The Park has over twenty-five kilometres of roads, seventeen kilometres of cycle lanes, twenty-seven kilometres of surfaced footpaths and eleven kilometres of perimeter wall. The Park caters for an average of nine million car journeys per year, the majority of which are merely passing through. The Office of Public Works has been responsible for The Phoenix Park since 1860. It is Ireland’s premier National Historic Park. It is the OPW’s responsibility to protect and preserve the Park on behalf of all the people of Ireland. This Conservation Management Plan confirms the Office of Public Works aims of conserving and enhancing the Park’s unique environments with creative policies to encourage access and opportunities for enjoyment, education and healthy recreation. I would like to thank the public for their valued inputs into the formulation of the plan. Likewise, the advice and suggestions from all public bodies has been invaluable. The expertise of the Conservation Management Plan Advisory Committee in providing the framework, guidance and formulation of the Plan has been immense. This plan supersedes the previous management plan, which has guided the management of The Phoenix Park since its publication in 1986. I am confident that the management and staff of this great organisation through their dedication and ongoing commitment to public service will achieve the vision and strategic objectives guiding the conservation and management of The Phoenix Park for the 21st Century. Brian Hayes T.D. MINISTER OF STATE FOR PUBLIC SECTOR REFORM AND THE OFFICE OF PUBLIC WORKS September 2011
Chairman’s Preface Today, The Phoenix Park extends to over 700 hectares and represents a unique natural and cultural landscape that is both a historic park and a city park. It provides a setting for a range of activities and amenities and acts as a location for a number of important public institutions and residences. The purpose of this Conservation Management Plan is to provide guidelines, together with a set of specific actions, for the management of The Phoenix Park for future generations while addressing the needs of the current generation within the context of a National Historic Park. The plan aims to balance the responsibilities to protect, conserve and enhance the unique landscape, environment, ecology, wildlife, built heritage and view of The Phoenix Park with active and creative policies to facilitate wider access and to increase opportunities for enjoyment, information, education and recreation for now and into the future. Baseline scientific studies were commissioned on a wide range of subjects relating to the Park giving a whole new dimension to the plan. Research has shown that Neolithic and Early Bronze Age Man had long associations with the lands that now form The Phoenix Park. Fifty percent of all mammal species found in Ireland occur within the Park and over forty percent of all bird species are to be found in the Park. There are twenty-five different habitats and 6 different types of woodland. Almost all the semi-natural grassland in Dublin is found in The Phoenix Park. These studies give a comprehensive survey of the Park as it stands at the beginning of the second decade of the twenty first century and will serve management well in the years to come. The plan is strategic in nature, setting out the vision for the Park with thirteen strategic objectives, for the longer-term (50 years) conservation and management of The Phoenix Park. It also identifies a range of more detailed specific objectives and actions - steps that can be taken in the short term - to secure the longer-term objectives. In particular, the plan identifies over one hundred specific actions to be undertaken over the next ten years. The Phoenix Park Conservation Management Plan is available on disc and may be downloaded from www. phoenixpark.ie and www.opw.ie. I hope everyone will assist us in achieving the objectives set out in the plan and I would like to thank all those who assisted with its formulation and publication. CLARE MC GRATH CHAIRMAN, OFFICE OF PUBLIC WORKS September 2011
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Appendices THE PHOENIX PARK CONSERV
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