The lands offer a number of urban design benefits
that improve connection and permeability that are
proposed to be integrated into the development:
• The enabling of a new east-west connection
from the Main Street/ Howth Parish Church to
Balscadden Bay
• The enabling of an improved east-west
connection from the Main Street, to the south
of the Martello Tower, to Balscadden Bay
• A new public space facing over Balscadden Bay
• The delivery of new housing to the Village, with
associated active frontage retail use at the
Main Street

The proposed scheme footprint rationalizes a
stepping in-and-out façade, stepping back in places
near sensitive boundaries. A principle advantage
of this approach also is to reduce the extent of
intervention of the ground, mitigating concerns
raised regarding the stability of the site when
developed and the quantity of excavated material
to be removed from the site.
The Isometric massing models to the left show how
the scheme sits into the landscape, the green flat
roof’s replicating the excavated embankment. The
scheme steps in and out of sensitive areas, also
leaving the southeastern portion of the site clear
& uninterrupted for the houses adjacent to the
Balscadden Road. The Pedestrianised route is lined
by both Block B & C, which then opens up to reveal a
public open landscaped plaza, overlooking the Bay