Clongriffin

Clongriffin is a large mixed use residential district incorporating a new town centre at the east end of the North Fringe, bounded by the Dublin-Belfast railway in the east, and where a new railway station is under construction. Pedestrian desire lines through the site generated the route layout and open space network. The major pedestrian route runs diagonally from Fr. Collins Park to the town centre. The major vehicular routes run east-west to the town square, to the north and south of the Park. Local parks of varying size and function give character and identity to the residential districts that are formed by these movement spines. These consist of a series of residential perimeter blocks, increasing in density and height towards the town centre. The design of the town centre consists of urban perimeter blocks defining a strong building line with active frontages and a fine grain. The format for the town centre rejects the single use shopping concept. It locates these units at street level within the urban blocks, with residential or other commercial uses overhead. These town centre uses are clustered around the Town Square and Main Street. The Town Square has been designed as the focus for Clongriffin and is essentially a hard public place with a large raised grass table, space for a local market and broad pavements surrounding it so that the street level uses of the buildings can spill out into the space.