Public Consultation: Proposed Playground Upgrades at Carysfort Park, Blackrock and Pearse Park, Sallynoggin

Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council is upgrading the existing playgrounds and exercise equipment at both Pearse Park, Sallynoggin and Carysfort Park, Blackrock and need your help creating a new, inclusive play space, where children of all ages, abilities and backgrounds can play.

The DLRCC Play Policy was adopted in 2023. It establishes a set of goals, objectives and actions to enhance play opportunities in the most accessible and inclusive way throughout the county. The actions arising include the refurbishment of existing play spaces and the development of new ones where a gap has been identified. Engagement and collaboration is a key part of the Play Policy which requires that we ‘involve children and young people in the reimagining of spaces for play, and in the design of new play spaces’.

This consultation needs the community’s input, to gather ideas and local insight, to form the basis of the new playground's design. Local communities are being invited to complete this online survey and share their ideas. 

This feedback will help create a brief and specification for the playgrounds to be tendered out to design and build, during 2025.  

The consultation programme aims to:

• Determine the main users of the playgrounds
• Identify opportunities for teens and adults
• Gather ideas from the community for the playground's design and accessibility

If you would like to share your views, official submissions can also be made by:

• Emailing parksconsultations@dlrcoco.ie with submissions in your preferred format
• An online survey on Citizen Space
• As a written submission by post or in person, clearly marked with:

Proposed Playground Upgrades at Pearse Park, Sallynoggin and Carysfort Park, Blackrock, Parks and Landscape Services, Department of Community and Cultural Development, Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council, County Hall, Marine Road, Dún Laoghaire, Co. Dublin, A96 K6C9.

The consultation opens from Wednesday May 28th and runs until Friday June 20th.