Evolution of the Campus Development Plan
The last decade has seen a scale and speed of change in the Dublin metropolitan area that is remarkable.
Rationalisation of land use patterns
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The current Campus Development Plan commissioned by UCD in 2005 follows previous plans, completed in 1964, 1973, 1986, 1998 and 2002. The extent of change in Dublin, as well as in UCD, has necessitated the production of this new Plan. While elements of the Plan, such as landscaping, have a medium and longer term time horizon, overall the Plan is seen as having a 10-year life span with a critical mid-term review being undertaken in 2010.
Our Campus Development Plan seeks to provide guidance for the physical evolution of the Campus, and all future development proposals will assume its underlying development principles.
The trend of increasing development provoked a number of key objectives in the 2002 Plan: the commitment to principles of sustainability; the avoidance of inefficient and fragmented development patterns; and the intensification of existing development areas, notably in the Campus core. The Plan also identified zones and signaled the need to give the Campus more visibility, particularly at the main ‘gateway’ at the N11 bridge. These objectives are still at the very core of our new Plan.