The Willows

The site is located to south east of Dunshaughlin town cen­tre, on the eastern side of the RI47 Regional Approach Road which links Dunshaughlin to the M50 and beyond.

The overall masterplan development proposals (i.e. the SHD lands together with the earlier phases) will deliver 1,135 residential units, a neighbourhood centre, including 2 no. retail units, a café/restaurant unit, a primary healthcare/gym, a community facility and a childcare facility, open space, a section of the Outer Relief Road, internal roads, cycle and pedestrian infrastructure.

Construction and occupation of the scheme are already substantially progressed.

The development is designed to link efficiently to the wider area, to the lands abutting the site, including em­ployment lands, recreational lands, the adjoining school campus lands and particularly to the existing town.

Urban character particular strategies are prioritised including convenient, efficient, and safe links to adjacent facilities/land uses and town centre, strong permeability with particular emphasis on cyclist and pedestrian, clear roads network hierarchy, direction and sense of place enhanced by important focal points within the scheme including open spaces and social spaces of varying size, variation and sense of space delivered through Character Areas’ spaces and materials, appropriate density delivered for most efficient land use, building types and heights increased to deliver ur­ban scale along main boulevard area and flanking town park, building heights and design lower and more inti­mate in residential enclaves and homezones.