[update] the Park in Baldoyle has been named – Baldoyle Racecourse Park 15:50 05/11/09
The high amenity park due to open in Baldoyle in January 2010 needs a name. Can you suggest one. The land was once owned by Frank Dunlop (who claimed he bribed six county councillors to rezone it for him) what was once the world famous Baldoyle Racecourse. The land was rezoned in the 90’s as local councillors gave way to allow development on this green belt that now has stages of the Coast development built upon it.
It has had a working title of ‘Millennium Park’ for about 13 years but due to its extreme late delivery it is deemed inappropriate to call it Millennium Park TEN YEARS into the new millennium. Baldoyle badly needs amenity lands for its expanding young and old population (Baldoyle is the only area of the old Howth Ward with and expanding population). Comments & suggestions welcome. With a few suggestions I may run a poll.
a name to replace” Millennium
Park”
1 St Mary’s Park ( we have the convent, the school and the
hospital with this name it would be nice to retain it in the park)
2 Baldoyle Park ( this will be a park for new and old of Baldoyle)
3 The Racecourse Park ( as it will be built on the Racecourse lands)
4 The Children’s Park ( as none excises and it will be here in our
children’s future, and mostly used by them)
Pairce Baile Duill – keep it Irish and keep the name with the area
Seapark. Can there be opening for the park soon by entrance of the main Grange road opp. seagrange and at Stapolin/Castlerose to accommodate the existing estate of Stapolin that these land and old house was with, any chance of this being brought in the next meeting with Fingal and may a road opening up at Stapolin with a one way system through to the Coast,,,,,,,,,,when when when is this every going to happen. thanks Brian and keep up the good work.
@Carol (grainne) the park name was decided as Baldoyle Racecourse Park.
Opening it up, the council have zero budget to do this. The Env. Minister took the money from council that funded such works. The new playground at the park funded by the developer is massively under sized to what was promised. The pitches are further delayed and 10.5 years late.
The opening, a public consultation was had on the entrance. If ever built the plan is to have a fenced corridor from Grange Road on to the park. Gate on the fence into Admiral & Castlerosse would be in place in a default locked state and future thought on the operation and opening could be entered into. This is my memory of the winning option of 3 put forward.
Thanks for your interest in the area. We need more residents taking part in the decisions of the area.
BTW i have a petition on saving seagrange park south from rezoning. http://saveseagrangepark.com/ if you could take a look. Thanks