3.2 | Guiding Principles The future growth and ambition for the Limerick-Shannon MASP is based on the principles of the Sustainable Place Framework 34 as identified in the RSES Settlement Strategy (Chapter 3).
Integrated transport and landuse – Target growth along high quality public transport corridors and nodes linked to the delivery of key public transport projects. Accelerate housing delivery – Activate strategic residential development areas such as Mungret and support the steady supply of sites to accelerate housing supply, supported by better services and public transport. Employment density in the right places – Re-intensify employment in Limerick City and Shannon and activate strategic employment locations to complement existing employment hubs in the City Centre and near third level institutes. Social regeneration - Realise opportunities for social as well as physical regeneration, particularly in areas with pockets of deprivation. Future development areas - having regard to the long lead time for planning and development, identify future growth areas that may be delivered beyond the lifetime of the MASP but within the long term 2040 horizon of the NPF. For example, enabling infrastructure such as the Limerick Northern Distributor Road (LNDR) will open lands to the north of the city for consolidation and expansion. Metropolitan scale amenities – Provision of regional parks and blue green infrastructure including greenways/blueways along the River Shannon and the re-opening of the Errina Canal. Enabling infrastructure - Identify infrastructure capacity issues and ensure water services needs are met. Improve sustainability in terms of energy, waste management and water conservation. Co-ordination and active land management - Limerick 2030 provides an excellent platform to promote even more active urban development and land management actions that focus on the development of under-utilised, brownfield, vacant and public lands.
To achieve the vision of the Limerick- Shannon Metropolitan Area the MASP has identifiedseveralGuidingPrinciples for its sustainable development: A Living City and Metropolitan Area - Investment must be supported in revitalising and reinvigorating Limerick City for higher density living and high value jobs. Limerick City and Shannon should be well-functioning and energising places providing residential, employment, health, business, political, recreation, educational, commercial and transport functions driving our Region. The high capacity transport corridors needed to support this scale of growth will be delivered incrementally in line with growth and intensification of the city. It is recognised that there is a need to collaborate, rather than compete, for the benefit of the Limerick-Shannon MASP on the issue of employment creation. The Metropolitan Area needs a dynamic, diverse and high- profile City Centre to function and the city centre needs a fully functioning and progressive Metropolitan Area to prosper. Limerick-Shannon as a global gateway – A competitive, properly resourced and well-functioning Shannon International Airport and Shannon Foynes Port is essential to facilitate their growth and to ensure excellent international access. Compact sustainable growth – The development of brownfield and infill lands to achieve a target of at least 50% of all newhomes within or contiguous to the existing built up area in Limerick City and 30% in Shannon and other settlements.
Limerick-Shannon MASP Policy Objective 4
b. It is an objective to ensure quality infrastructure and quality of place is prioritised as an incentive to attract people to live and work in sustainable settlement patterns in the Metropolitan Area.
Investment to Deliver Vision a. It is an objective to seek the identification of investment packages across State Departments and infrastructure delivery agencies as they apply to the Limerick-Shannon MASP and seek further investments into the Limerick-Shannon MASP to deliver on the seven Metropolitan Area Goals (see Volume 3).
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