Areas & Communities — Some Projects
Drimnagh Integrated Area Plan & Smarter Travel Competition
An extensive local area mapping and community consultation process led to an Integrated Area Plan (IAP) for Drimnagh in 2008. The IAP puts forward a shared vision for how to improve the existing environment, local…
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Creative Sligo Initiative & Partnership EU Bid
The Creative Sligo Initiative began as a cultural mapping project to develop a strategy for integrated social, cultural and economic development of the Sligo area. It has since evolved into a Sligo-led North-Western partnership bid…
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Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland Strategy & Operational Supports
This project for SEAI, started as two research studies in 2009 looking at Local Authority energy management in the community and in County Development Plans. The idea of a national local-authority-led Community Public Private Partnership…
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Baile Glas Eco Village
Baile Glas, Ireland’s first social and affordable Eco Village completed in 2006, is a demonstration project still ahead of its time in 2011 delivering energy efficient housing in rural Co. Cork. Working with residents around…
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Father Collins Park
Ireland’s first sustainable energy park, Father Collins Park is leading the way in the planning of public amenities. The park has a sustainable drainage system incorporating wetlands and swales, uses native planting and supplies its…
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Temple Bar Development Programme 1991—2000
The success of the Temple Bar story is the unique integration of a capital development project with a people-centred events, marketing and cultural tourism programme, which supported the sustainability of the new cultural centres and…
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