Design team sought for local riverside park project

Roscommon County Council is seeking to appoint a design team to progress a proposed riverside park in Tarmonbarry adjoining the River Shannon.

A recent tender advertised by the local authority outlines that the key measures to be delivered as part of this commission are a feasibility study and preferred option report along with a preliminary design and statutory consent phase.

The riverside park project is aimed at enhancing and expanding tourism and recreational infrastructure to benefit the local economy, and attracting more visitors to the areas particularly those arriving by boat, car, bicycle or by motorhome.

Another objective of the planned development is that it will improve connectivity by establishing linkages between water amenities, the village, the proposed Royal Canal Greenway extension from Clondra to Tarmonbarry, the Bord na Móna Greenway to Roosky and the larger TII Lough Ree Greenway projects.

In the tender documents, the council says that the riverside park project aligns with the vision in strategies such as Ireland’s Hidden Heartlands’ tourism strategy, the Shannon Tourism Masterplan, the Visitor and Tourism Plan for Richmond Harbour, Cloondara and Tarmonbarry, and the EU Just Transition Scheme.

The council has submitted a funding application to Fáilte Ireland to carry out the feasibility study.

The contract duration for the design team brief has been set at ten months, and the time-limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate was September 9th.