Uimhir Thagarta Uathúil:
KCC-C205-58
Stádas:
Submitted
Aighneacht:
Dementia Friendly Newbridge
Comhairliúchán:
Newbridge Local Area Plan 2025-2031 - Pre Draft Public Consultation
Dáta a cuireadh isteach:
27.11.2023 - 18:20
Teorainneacha Gafa ar an léarscáil:
Níl
Newbridge has an aging population
Memory loss with age is significant
That all plans for future initatives bear in mind the needs of our most senior citizens and that the town plans be mindful and deploy dementia informed layouts and include those living with dementia in the decision making process to ensure accessibility is practical.
People with dementia will be a growing population increasingly present in public spaces and local neighbourhoods. Current built environment does not always suit people with dementia. Dementia affects the way people interact with and in spaces, and many people with memory loss find typical ways of interacting with the built environment, shopping etc or other people difficult or impossible. The way that KCC planners plan neighborhoods, facilities, and services can make it easier or harder for people with dementia to use, live in, or go to and from these places, lets make it easier.
Please assess and implement town plans with the needs of people with dementia taken into considered, so that places become safer and easier to navigate. A dementia-friendly community allows people with dementia to have a safe, accessible, and dignified life in the community. By making dementia-friendly spaces, colour coded too, KCC planners can play a big role in achieving that goal for all in our community.
This ask is that KCC identifies strategies and best practices to incorporate dementia-friendly approaches in planning for transportation, housing, public space, urban fabric, and social services.
A Circular and BioEconomy Hub for the region based in Newbridge, itself a town that has transitioned from British to Irish powers.
Newbridge has Bord Na Mona AES waste services.
That the Area surrounding BnaM, towards Cutlery Road be a Circular Economy hub of excellence encouraging green, eco business to setup in here. This area currently hosts repair and building supplies services. That the Waste services of AES are part of the rollout as a blended finance Circular Hub, working with the LEO office and local schools to address Waste and build eco business and reuse firms in the area. This will create green jobs and reduce waste in the area and the emissions from transporting waste elsewhere.
The BioEconomy hub in Kildare to be hosted in Newbridge . Kildare have good agriculture and a lack of joint thinking on BioEconomic solutions from the agriculture and providers in the area. A school of shared learning for Bio and Circular Economy to be established in the plans to address agricultural waste e.g. Wool is Cat 3 agricultural waste ways to maximise wool uses in the area e.g. we have a lack of butchers that the plans are made to reimagine food supply chains toles and minimise waste products from the local bioeconomy in to a waste less area.
Donought Economy, DE, is backed by the President of Ireland , that KCC deploy regenerative Donought Economy thinking in future economic plans to address the Biodiversity and climate crisis we are in . That financial decisions be informed by the DE metrics and not the current GDP Economic model see attached
About Doughnut Economics | DEAL
Senior Citizens in Newbridge are afraid to go out at night or in the dark
Can KCC introduce slower crossing times at the Zebra Crossings and road crossing with the less able in mind?
Can KCC add an additional pedestrian crossing on Main Street after the WhiteWater /Michael Murphy entrance junction opposite Judge Roy Beans to access the Pharmacy and Employment services on this section of the street?
Can the local transport routes be increased to more regular intervals and the times be available for all to see at Bus stop locations?
Can a skytrain, mono rail be introduced to Newbridge to link up the area in time with the LUAS , the train station and to Kildare town ?
Can the carparks at the Train Station be covered in Solar Panels to electrify the area and have green energy for those with EV in the parking?
Can the train be 24 /7 and increase services on Sunday be requested to assist decarbonise the area?
Can KCC ask again that the fares be reduced in order to encourage more take up of Public transport and link Local Transport options to coincide with Train arrivals to the new estates in the area?
We ask that local markets be supported in the green procurement with multiannual funding to be made available
Currently the insurance is prohibitive and the market curtailed for new market entries due to KCC insurance requests and lack of short term thinking for seasonal suppliers. That the Market participants be included in future market plans.
That the Brigid day celebrations be marked by local markets and local celebrations be funded multiannually
We ask that once a month a celebration of Active transport be made by closing Charlotte Street to create a pedestrian zone for cycling, triking, skating etc with the communities engaged in healthy active travel and gardas sharing how best to travel safely for all. This street is wide and the cafes plentyfull on that street and inclusive of new communities currently.
We ask that the Town Centre be wide enough for wheelchairs and also trike users in the future as lesser able people change mobility equipment to meet their age
The educational school section in Newbridge by the Parish Church maintain its status for educational and community use
That Park and scoot/ride sections be added to minimise fumes in the school zones and traffic congestion, that the area be selected with the young people and parents involvement in the decision to ensure it is optimal and effective use of future mobility use, enhanced experience of Nature in the area, lighting safe for all species and electrification options
That a light be powered by dog poo in the park as happens in other communities
That our Bog Communities be supported urgently in the transition to green energy solutions to transition from Turf use to creation of renewable energy in their own homes for their health and their neighbourhoods
Newbridge has a rich Musical Heritage and no sign of this as a matter to be celebrated in the town
That KCC guided by local Musicians and music organisers put Newbridge on the map for all the good vibrations the town have enjoyed and continue to foster as a legacy to those who played here and who continue to play. That QR codes be shared in locations in Newbridge with the music history of the town and that our musicians be celebrated and honored with those who supported them
That the KCC create a Library of Musical instruments and equipement to be shared by those practising music and wishing to learn . The Riverbank is a good venue and has hosted great music and culture that the new Library be open to being a hub for music practices and local gigs
Newbridge pilot a Community Climate Action Worker for true engagement of Grass roots actions informed by grass top solutions in a Sustainable Energy Community including the Business communities
Newbridge can be a green energy hub with Military thinking and Bord Na Mona power expertise and use of both their buildings, staff homes and the future KCC buildings and existing Local Authority and privately owned housing stock to use the roof tops as biosolar climate positive solutions zones to aid biodiversity and increase health in the area
That Newbridge implement pollinator areas in lign with Irish Bee Conservation https://www.ibcp.ie/ whos founder is from Newbridge
That Newbridge host EU Covenant of Mayors climate positive ideas and invite twinning to follow best example from our twinned Mayors and other mayors ideas
That KCC host Earth Hour Events annually for the entire town to consider positive actions
Additional policing of our streets so we feel safe to walk as part of Active transport
Newbridge housing estates are aging and the tenants could be offered upper floor transformations to keep tenants living at home and additional rooms available for tenants or carers to live in 10 min towns