Vernon Avenue to Clontarf Road Active Travel Scheme
This scheme aims to enhance walking and cycling facilities along a 600 metre route as part of Dublin City Council's Active Travel programme. This scheme is currently in the Statutory Processes and Public Consultation phase.
Non-Statutory Public consultation for this scheme is open from 10th June – 10th July 2026. Visit our Engage Platform to make an online submission.
For full details on the public consultation, please see the FAQs at the bottom of this page.
The Vernon Avenue to Clontarf Road Active Travel Scheme aims to enhance walking and cycling facilities along Vernon Avenue. The scheme will cover 600 metres, from the Seafield Road junction with Vernon Avenue to the Clontarf Road seafront.
Dublin City Council want to improve Vernon Avenue for all users of the space. We aim to make it safer, easier and more pleasant for people to walk, wheel or cycle while enhancing the overall look and feel of Clontarf Village. At the southern end of Vernon Avenue, a key objective is to create a focal point for Clontarf Village. We propose to provide a new community space from Clontarf Park to Clontarf Road. This will create a vibrant civic plaza for the community.
This scheme forms part of the Dublin City Active Travel Network.
What improvements will this scheme make?
This scheme aims to deliver a safer, vibrant, more people-focused street by making the following changes:
- A ‘mixed traffic’ street on Vernon Avenue from Seafield Road to Clontarf Park, where cyclists share the carriageway with vehicular traffic.
- A ‘filtered permeability’ arrangement from Clontarf Park to Clontarf Road with cyclists and pedestrians only in this zone
- Localised community space enhancements with resting places, greening measures and opportunities for outdoor dining.
- Improved pedestrian facilities including a new zebra crossing at Nolan’s and a step-free ‘continuous footpath’ at the southern end of Vernon Avenue
- Improved connection to Clontarf Promenade and the carpark south of Clontarf Road with a full junction upgrade at Clontarf Road.
- Enhanced connectivity to the existing East Coast Trail to the south and the planned Gracefield Road to Vernon Avenue Active Travel Scheme to the north.
Learn More About This Scheme
To hear people’s views and get their opinions on the proposed scheme, Dublin City Council are holding a Non-Statutory public consultation from 10th June 2026 – 10th July 2026.
We welcome all feedback we receive from the local community and will take all these views into account when further developing the design.
A Public Information Event will be held on Tuesday, 23rd June, 3-7pm, Clontarf GAA Club.
To make a submission on this scheme, please see the options below:
- fill out a questionnaire on our online consultation platform: Engage Platform
- email us at [email protected] with subject line: Vernon Avenue to Clontarf Road Active Travel Scheme
- send a submission by post to: Active Travel Programme Office, Dublin City Council, Cavendish House, Block D, Arran Court, Arran Quay, D07 H5CH
After the public consultation, we will review all feedback and develop our designs further if required. A Public Consultation Report will be published on this webpage.
The “pay & display” parking spaces next to shops and restaurants within the filtered permeability area will be removed to accommodate the community space enhancements.
12 parking spaces will be retained and 4 parking spaces removed in the mixed traffic area along Vernon Avenue.
2 accessible parking spaces and 4 loading bays will be provided along Clontarf Road at the southern edge of the proposed community space.
A parking survey was carried out in the area which demonstrated significant additional capacity in the existing Clontarf Road Promenade carpark. Connectivity and access from Vernon Avenue to this carpark will be significantly improved by this scheme.
No trees are proposed to be removed. It is our aim to provide additional greening measures in the new proposed community space at the southern end of Vernon Avenue which may include some tree planting.
Jacobs Engineering have been contracted to design this project.
This scheme is being funded by the National Transport Authority.
This scheme connects to the existing East Coast Trail Active Travel Scheme. It will also connect to the proposed Gracefield Road to Vernon Avenue Active Travel Scheme, which will deliver protected cycle lanes and improvements for pedestrians over a 2.5km route along Gracefield Road, Brookwood Avenue, Sybil Hill Road and the northern section of Vernon Avenue.
These schemes are part of Dublin City Council's Active Travel Network. You can view our interactive map to see where they fit into the planned citywide network, which will span 314km when completed.