Spatial Planning - DIT Broadstone Masterplan
Spatial Planning - DIT Broadstone Masterplan
Programme: DT106-4 BSc Spatial Planning
Module: SSPL4024 Urban Design Masterplan
No of Students: 8
Aim: To develop the practical skills and understand the processes needed for the preparation of urban design masterplans.
Project Description:
The student team of final year Planners was asked to prepare a draft Planning Scheme Masterplan for lands at Broadstone. The design and vision was required to “seek to identify the best sustainable use of the subject lands for the future. This should respect and take into account the needs of the immediate and surrounding communities. It should also take into account the needs of the wider city and, in particular the aims of Dublin City Council to develop ‘a compact, green, well connected city, a smart city facilitating real and economic recovery, and a city of good neighbourhoods and socially inclusive communities’ (Dublin City Development Plan 2011 – 2017, page iv)”.
The brief was prepared jointly with Dublin City Council and the students were asked to conceive a vision which would complement and enhance the “’vibrant new city quarter’ on adjacent lands at Grangegorman as part of the Grangegorman Strategic Plan 2011, including a new campus for the Dublin Institute of Technology, new arts, cultural, recreational and public spaces to serve the community and the city, a primary school, public library and children's play spaces and complementary mixed-use development”.
The brief took account of existing and planned infrastructure including the Luas Line BDX, “which has been permitted and is due to commence enabling works during 2013. This will provide a surface light rail connection between Broombridge and St. Stephen’s Green. The benefits of this and the wider city centre mobility network, which is similarly being developed, should be considered in framing a vision for the lands”.
As Part II of the exercise, once the main structuring elements were agreed, in smaller groups of 2-3, students were required to produce detailed urban design Development Briefs for discrete zones within the subject lands. Each Development Brief needed to be instrumental towards the delivery of a healthy, sustainable neighbourhood within the proposed DIT Broadstone Planning Scheme and had to be “closely informed by the Priorities set out in DIT Broadstone draft Planning Scheme brief”.
This link (DIT Broadstone Masterplan) allows you to download a pdf of the output of the project.
Contact for further information: David O’Connor (david.oconnor@dit.ie)
