Boyne Greenway

Read somewhere online (DroghedaLife possibly?) that apparently this has had a lot of feedback from people, making it one of the (if not the) busiest public consultations the CoCo have ever undertaken? Apparently something like 96% of submissions about it are in favour of it.

Looks like the poor folk in Mornington are gonna have to get used to strangers cars parking in their estate. :rolleyes: But delighted people have gotten involved to support it.

I really do hope they take my own submissions on board in relation to hedging it off from the roadside (as a noise barrier if nothing else). Be a very busy (and thus noisy) road to be walking on otherwise.

Scotty # wrote: »

For anyone who wants to contribute...

www.gofundme.com/challenge-the-rathmullan-road-housing-development

(not set up by me!)

I wonder could they do anything with the entrance/exits there. Perhaps a new road that goes from the estate directly to the M1.

This is what I've mocked up:






The red area has already been zoned for development as far as I am aware and I believe the land either sold last year to a developer, or is getting ready to be sold. So the diggers will be trawling over it soon. A bit of joined-up thinking (a rare thing, I know!) would see that the estates being built beside the highlands would have an alternate exit point, over towards the retail park.

Marley's Lane really can't take any more traffic at peak time. Between it being a main route, and a major school route, it's suffocating at peak times.

The road in pink already exists, and should be due a major upgrade. This way people could exit from their 661 houses and houses beside the highlands, and instead of going directly to the boardwalk or the rathmullan road, they could optionally drive west to sheepgrange or south to the retail park/M1.



Any people living in these new houses (or existing houses in the area) that are planning to work north of Drogheda, ie Dundalk, Ardee, etc, are jocked. They'll be the ones that will have no choice but to sit in traffic all day.

When they re-did the area where the boardwalk is, the plan was to make it a one-way system until residents kicked up a fuss. I'd be fairly confident the one way system idea will be proposed again to try and deal with the levels of traffic that will now be using it.

The boardwalk will also suffer majorly from having a thousand new houses built on top of it. Will no doubt go from being a quiet, enjoyable amenity, to being an anti-social haven, in no time at all.


Still find it annoying that they are building approx 1,000 houses (with the same again due in future I'm sure) and IDA approved a massive jobless Amazon shed to go beside them. Something to look at on the commute to Dublin I suppose. :rolleyes:

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It's quite staggering though seeing that, there are already house under construction there at the minute aand with this development they are effectively going to double the population and as a result traffic. If you work on the north side of town or beyond you'd be looking at heading along the river to avoid the center of town.

Well, I live in Rathmullan. My hope is that in the next decade, that rathmullan will gentrify a bit, and as Drogheda is effectively turned into Dublin Lite by then, the property prices might go up.

Then flog the house and buy a detached bungalow somewhere in rural Leitrim Live out my days in peace and quiet

EDIT: They've started or at least moved containers in on the site beside Joe Duffy's on Donore Rd where 20 ish units will be built

Where is this, out of curiousity? I can't picture it.

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As you are heading out of town towards the roundabout, on the right just before Joe Duffy autos. Between it and the existing houses Here

Jesus, 20 houses in there? Traffic really is a legitimate afterthought isn't it.




At least it's close to a bus stop, I suppose.

Makes you wonder how many will chance their arm at the fast track and get away with it and end up with unsuitable developments over the country. Glad to see this fail and the one on the Marsh Rd but there have been other crazy applications in recent times like out the old Slane Rd, Trinity Gardens and that tower they wanted to build at the B&B off Trinity St.

Was down Rathmullen Rd on the bike this week where they are currently building the estate on the left as you head to the river, they have 3 out buildings like shdes at the front of the estate that I have no idea what they are for? Communal laundry facility? If you could drive /walk into the estate they are like sheds with large glass windows as you head in on the right.

It's a great walk, and one well worth making imo. It can get everso muddy, though. This was on a good day

I'd imagine it will run along the rear of the golf course there and up to the Maiden Tower?

2 million though ? 1 million a kilometre.