2.5 - Economic and Employment Strategy

The strategy for the city economy and enterprise is to safeguard and enhance Dublin’s role as Ireland’s internationally competitive capital; to promote strategic and targeted employment growth; to support regeneration and tackle vacancy; to support the creation of high quality urban spaces and the transition to a low-carbon, green, circular economy; to support key economic sectors; and to foster local economic development and social enterprise.

This approach aligns with the overall goals of NPF, RSES and MASP for the economic development of Dublin City as Ireland’s leading global city of scale (see Chapter 6: City Economy and Enterprise).

The overall approach to the provision of employment lands in the Dublin City area has regard to the role of the city as the country’s most significant employment centre which attracts significant numbers of workers from surrounding local authority areas. The city has seen a significant change in the character of its employment land over the last number of years.

Previous low intensity industrial land has in many instances been redeveloped for high quality office use and other more intensive employment land uses. This has been particularly evident in Dublin Docklands. The economic strategy seeks to build on these trends and to continue to support the shift from low intensity, more land-extensive employment uses towards more intensive office, service, retail, tourism and culture related employment activity. In line with the principles of the 15 minute city, the strategy also promotes a more mixed use philosophy, with employment land uses to be developed in conjunction or in close proximity to residential development. In particular, this will be promoted on former industrial Z6 lands, many of which are now zoned Z10, as well as in the SDRAs and Z14 zoned lands and in Key Urban Villages throughout the city.