Community and Culture

The ‘Green City’ concept has been promoted through the ‘Your Swords - An Emerging City - Strategic Vision 2035’ plan, however the needs and requirements of the local community in terms of liveability and placemaking will be brought to the fore in the Sustainable Swords project through collaboration, participation and in-depth analysis of key issues.

Sustainable communities are economically, environmentally, and socially healthy and resilient. Challenges to sustainability are met through integrated solutions rather than through a fragmented approach and as such we envisage that this project is needed to formulate a comprehensive review of the current status of Swords in terms of sustainability (by way of the Town Centre Heath Check), to understand local aspirations and preferences in order to develop a coordinated strategy for prioritising sustainable development and placemaking in Swords town centre.