Newry and Mourne District Council

Newry City Centre Strategic Development Framework March 2004
b. Creating an Accessible City
Projects/ Actions
Possible Funding Delivered By Priority
Sources
- Promote the relocation of the taxi rank to the Mall, where a more typical linear arrangement could be adopted DRD/DSD DRD/NMDC/Taxi
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Companies
- Work with Translink to explore how to improve the bus service between the train station and the bus station Translink Translink/NMDC 1
- Ensure that designers and contractors working on EI schemes should be encouraged to consult with William Keown Trust and
- NMDC 2
Disability Action, (deal with matters relating to disability in Northern Ireland).
- Set up public awareness meetings with the William Keown Trust to allow the ‘providers’ and ‘users’ of the built environment to NMDC NMDC/ William Keown 1
come together to focus appraisal on issues relating to disability access within the built and open environments.
Trust
- Commission a “street scope audit” to assess the current accessibility issues in Newry city centre. A design guide should be
- NMDC/William Keown 1
prepared on the basis of this audit.
Trust
- Identify a number of key sites within the city centre for the location of high quality disabled toilet facilities. These should be located
NMDC NMDC 1
at main focal points within easy reach of disabled car parking.
- Sites need to be identified for parking spaces dedicated to people with disabilities and need to located close to shops and other
DRD DRD 2
services
- Consideration should be given to clamping of those non-disabled people who park in disabled place DRD/PSNI DRD/PSNI 3
- Ensure the Area Plan includes a policy on disability in design of buildings and urban environment - DOE 1
- Develop a parking strategy that creates a necklace of car parks around the central area DRD/Private DRD/Private 1
- Create strong visual and physical pedestrian links between the car parks and the shopping and office areas to include signage and DSD/NMDC NMDC 1
surface treatments
- Improve signage to car parks from main routes into and through the city centre. Signs should indicate direction to “Shopping Car DRD/NMDC DRD/NMDC 1
Parks” and not names of streets
- Consideration should be given to replacing parallel parking on the east side of Merchants’ Quay between Francis Street and
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Monaghan Street with diagonal parking to provide additional parking capacity
- Introduce time restrictions in those areas where short term parking would facilitate use of city centre businesses DRD DRD 2
- Introduce charging at key locations where there is pressure for parking DRD DRD
- Ensure a commitment to enforcing parking restrictions DRD/PSNI DRD/PSNI 1
- Maintain Abbey Way as the main route through the city and ensure ease of flow DRD DRD 2
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