A new strategy plan for North County Dublin shows how the Metro North region from Santry to Swords will double the area's level of economic activity, increase employment with the creation of 37,000 new jobs and increase its population to 128,000 over the next 20 years.
An Economic Development Strategy for the Metro North Economic Corridor was launched this morning by Fingal County Council and Indecon Economic Consultants.
The strategy says that Metro North is the key to 'sustainable continued expansion' and economic growth of the Airport City region and to Dublin as a whole.
Key recommendations of the strategy include facilitating development which would bring the total employment in the area to 66,700, attracting high tech manufacturing and services employment, the location of a new university campus and a hospital in the corridor and ensuring that all new residential and commercial developments meet best international practice in environmental standards.
'Metro brings with it an unprecedented opportunity for Fingal and the Dublin region as a whole,' commented Fingal County Manager David O'Connor.
Fingal has one of the fastest national population growth rates in the 2006 census - an increase of 22% in four years. The average age in Fingal is 32.2 years and there has been a 37% increase in the number of children under four and a 20% increase in the number of children aged five to nine.
