Balrothery Active Travel Plan
Fingal County Council is developing an active travel plan for Balrothery that will identify projects to provide the infrastructure to support and encourage active travel. This webpage will be updated throughout the project.
The Plan
This plan will identify projects in the Balrothery area to provide the infrastructure that will support and encourage members of the public to use active travel modes such as walking, cycling, and scooting for short-distance journeys and provide links to access to public transport for medium-distance journeys.
These projects might include changes to the road layout, locations for cycle parking or improvements to public spaces. The extents of the project are shown on the map.
Why is this important?
Fingal Council is committed to creating well-serviced and well-connected communities with reduced travel distances between home, work, education, and services that allow more people to undertake local journeys actively. This supports the health and well-being of residents and supports climate action by reducing vehicle emissions. The council is also committed to enhancing and developing Fingal’s inherent sense of place, identity, and character, ensuring that individual communities remain distinctive and improving the quality of life for residents. The council is also committed to ensuring that these improvements to local neighbourhoods are inclusive and cater to all abilities, genders, and age groups including children, older people, and people with a range of disabilities.
Active Travel Plan Timeline
The Active Travel Plan for Balrothery will be developed through 4 stages. At each stage, the community will be able to feed into the developing plan. Fingal County Council feels it is important to co-develop a plan with the Balrothery community to ensure that it is appropriate to the particular needs of residents, business owners, and visitors in the village.
Current Stage: Stage 2: Draft Active Travel Plan
28 November 2024
Public consultation update
The presentation and accompanying information on the draft Balrothery Active Travel Plan provided at the consultation event at Balrothery Heritage Centre on 20 November 2024 is now available for you to view here.
Within the presentation you will find an update on our key findings to date and the proposed measures to support active travel in the village.
In addition, we've added a new survey for you to give us your feedback on the draft plan after you've read the proposals (available here). This will be used to help us review and refine proposals. This survey will be available until 20 December 2024.
Previous Stage: Stage 1 - Understanding Balrothery - What you've told us so far
31 July 2024
Newsletter
Please click here to view our latest updates in our newsletter.
Engagement Report
Following your feedback through the interactive activities on this website, and public open forum discussions in Balrothery Heritage Centre on 20 February 2024, an Engagement Summary Report has been prepared.
Please click here to view this report.
Online Survey
Please see below link to online survey for you to give us your feedback on the information that we have gathered to date. This will allow us to see if we are hearing the people of Balrothery and interpreting your information in the right way.
Please note that all of the information will be used to inform publicly available reports. We will not be collecting personal information. Please do not provide any personal information.
Previous Stage: Stage 1 - Reviewing Feedback
The project team built a detailed understanding of active movement around Balrothery. They did this through mapping and travel survey data, but they also gathered the community's experience and opinions on:
- the current way that people travel around Balrothery and the surrounding areas;
- the existing active travel infrastructure;
- the destinations people are travelling to and from to meet their daily needs; and
- the barriers that different people in Balrothery experience to travelling more actively.
- opinions on opportunities to enhance existing linkages, create new routes and create new public spaces.
The community gave their feedback in this first stage in two ways.
- Gave feedback through the interactive activities on this website.
- Gave feedback in person at our information session held from 3pm-8pm on 20 February 2024 in the Balrothery Heritage Centre.
Contact
This project is being led by The Active Travel Unit of Fingal County Council and supported by the international consultants Ramboll. The project team will email registered community groups to update them on the project's progress. If you would like to be emailed with updates about this project or have any questions about the project, then please get in contact by emailing: [email protected]
Fingal County Council is being supported by the international consultants Ramboll to develop an active travel plan for Balrothery. Ramboll is a foundation-owned consultancy of over 17,000 experts worldwide whose ethos is to partner with our clients and collaborators to drive sustainable change. Ramboll’s experts create memorable and lasting places that embed long-term sustainability and generate value for future generations.
