5.2.3 Access by Air

Dublin Airport provides both domestic and international arrivals and departures for the city and was used by 29 million passengers in 2017. The airport landscape is variable in quality with extensive areas for parking, roads and paved areas of poor appearance, while other areas provide good roadside screening by planting. The airport would benefit from a master landscape plan to provide a distinctive landscape treatment to enhance identity on arrival and departure from Dublin by air and include the main road corridors to which it connects. International examples of airport greening are experienced in Singapore’s Changi Airport and the developing Schipol Airport landscape plan in Holland.