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2007: Greystones Harbour Silted & Walls Collapsed for 110 years ! Cllr Derek Mitchell

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2007: Greystones Harbour Silted & Walls Collapsed for

110 years ! Cllr Derek Mitchell

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Greystones Harbour• 1888 Built amid controversy

• Silting & wall collapses

• 1930 Storm 15 houses disappear

• 1960’s Kish Base

• 1980 WCC tidal study

• 1990’s Tracey & Gubay plans• 1990’s Tracey & Gubay plans

• 1998 Think-Tank & Arup/Noone study

• 1999 Plan adopted by WCC

• 2001 Client’s Representative appointed to advise how to procure project and to procure as PPP.

• 2005 CPO Foreshore, Land & close Rights of Way

Cllr. Derek Mitchell

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Greystones harbour

•Town expand 40%. As large as Wexford

Town or Sligo

•Need for Focal Point and Community

FacilitiesFacilities

•Wicklow fastest growing Maritime County

•Least Sea Access Points. 6 as against Galway 197.

Cllr. Derek Mitchell

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2013: PUBLIC SQUARE as TOWN FOCAL POINT

Leisure Use of Sea as Central Feature of Town

Recreation Centre for Expanding Population

Public Access to SeaCllr. Derek Mitchell

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Clubhouses & Boatyards for Sea Scouts, Rowers,Divers, Sailors,

Anglers, CoastGuard

2 Public All Tide Launch Slips

Cllr. Derek Mitchell

Area for Shows, tall columns for banners and festive decorations

Good lighting, canopies, cafes, grass mounds, striking paving.

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Copenhagen Model. North East Gale.Inner Basin Calm enough to moor boats

Greystones Harbour Cllr. Derek Mitchell

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Smaller harbour considered 2003

• Main Problem

• -As rough or rougher than previous harbour

• -Silt up as much as previous

• Thus unsafe to moor boats!

• Minor Problems

• -Bad Architecturally• -Bad Architecturally

• -Need €8m subsidy from somebody

• -Not all users catered for

• 10 Other designs considered. Either unacceptable or not viable.

Greystones Harbour Cllr. Derek Mitchell

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Start of Building 2008

Greystones Harbour Cllr. Derek Mitchell

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Wall Section

Greystones Harbour Cllr. Derek Mitchell

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Cllr. Derek Mitchell

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Greystones Harbour Storm during Construction Cllr Derek Mitchell

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July 2009Cllr. Derek Mitchell

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Entrance

Roundhead being

built.

Cllr Derek

Mitchell

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January 2010Cllr Derek Mitchell

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January 2010

Greystones Harbour Cllr Derek Mitchell

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Greystones Harbour Plan Cllr Derek Mitchell

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January 2011

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230 Berths, Boardwalk, New Beach, 375 Homes,

Shops, No Government Funding, Primary Health Care

Centre added

Cllr Derek Mitchell

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Greystones Harbour Plan October 2011 Cllr Derek MitchellD1

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Slide 19

D1 cllr Derek MitDMitchell, 20/10/2011

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Greystones Harbour Plan October 2011 Cllr Derek Mitchell

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Achievement

• Good selection & management to keep going in crisis. Largest leisure project in Ireland.

• Compare Dublin Docklands Authority. €200+m taxpayers money, nothing achieved later on.taxpayers money, nothing achieved later on.

• Greystones. Virtually no taxpayers money, new harbour built as Town ‘Icon’ and central feature.

• Recognition. World Conference, International Magazines, Afloat.

• Delays Happen. DART campaign took 22 years.

Greystones Harbour Cllr. Derek Mitchell