Introduction
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Chapter 1: Who We Are
A profile of the area, its community and specific relationship to CIE / Irish Rail.
Chapter 2: Consultation & Participation
This section examines national and international definitions and standards attaching to public participation and consultation in planning processes, while also detailing the extent to which the community sought and failed to secure a properly engaged relationship to the DART Underground process.
Chapter 3: Planning, Station and Environs and Proposed Future Development
A critical review of the main features and characteristics of those sections of the Railway Order Application that purport to represent proper planning specific to the location of a Station in Inchicore and proposed future Development within the area.
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Chapter 4: Design, Architecture & Heritage
A comprehensive and detailed analysis of the inadequate quality of measures specific to Design, Architecture and Heritage. Presented firstly, with reference to first principles and good practice and secondly with regard to what is specifically proposed by the applicant and how this could have a major detrimental effect on both our national and local railway heritage.
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Chapter 5: Construction and Operational Impacts & Issues
This section will address the great variety of recognised and anticipated construction and operational impacts upon our community with a clear focus on arising issues and ameliorating measures.
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Chapter 6: OTB Engineering
A presentation on behalf of the Railway Estate residents that inquires into the appropriateness of the current alignment, and the proposed locations of the intervention shaft and DART Underground station in Inchicore.
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Chapter 7: Community Gain and Corporate Social Responsibility
This section is centered on highlighting the absence of an appropriate spirit of corporate social responsibility within CIE / Irish Rail. It also makes a strongly argued case for a set of well considered and modest community gain measures that would benefit the whole of Inchicore and adjoining communities.
Chapter 8: Conditions, Modifications and Improvements to the Railway Order
In this penultimate section we will represent a summary of the conditions, modifications and improvements we are requesting that An Bord Pleanála consider including in advance of issuing any Railway Order.
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Chapter 9: Conclusion to Oral Submission
In this closing section we will draw together the main features of our oral presentation and open out the way for the applicant to respond or inquire further into the substance of our position.
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