Greenway plan to link University of Limerick to National Technology Park

COUNCIL is set to seek permission for a new walk and cycle path which will link University of Limerick (UL) to the National Technology Park in Plassey.

Codenamed the Limerick City Greenway, it’s proposed it will stretch for more than four kilometres.

It’s envisaged the first 3.3km will be a shared cycle path and footpath, between the college campus in Castletroy and McLaughlin Road.

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These will be four metres wide.

From McLaughlin Road, to the Technology Park, there will then be a final stretch of around one kilometre, where the surface will change to dedicated Active Travel infrastructure, comprising separate footpaths and cycleways.

It will be built on existing footpaths or in green fields, a public notice from Limerick City and County Council states.

“The scheme seeks to enhance walking and wheeling infrastructure throughout its extents to develop a consistent, clear and continuous network of walking and wheeling networks throughout the Limerick metropolitan area in line with national, regional and local policies,” a spokesperson for the authority said.

Some 61 trees are planned to be chopped, but these will be replaced with 305 native shrubs.

A ramp will allow access to Plassey Beach.

It will be An Coimisiún Pleanála, formerly An Bord Pleanla which decides on the plans.