Railway Park and Ballysaggart Lough – Feasibility Study

The Role

We undertook the delivery of the following components:

• Strategic Context – undertake an examination of how Railway Park and Ballysaggart Lough development proposal contributions to local and national policies.
• Assessment of Need – including:
  • Assessment of the quality of existing visitor experiences and services
  • Collaboration of findings of public consultation previously undertaken by Council – this included public meetings, one-to-one consultation and questionnaire
  • One-to-one consultation with Key Council and Community Stakeholder to ensure current development proposals are meeting the need.
  • Benchmarking of similar projects to identify potential for success.
• Investigation into the extension of the current Railway Park proposal to provide a greenway link to Ballysaggart Lough – this should include:
• Concept Trail Design
• Identification of innovative options to enhance the visitor experience
• Identification of risks and constraints to delivery of the recommended outputs from the feasibility stage
• Identification of indicative capital costs for development and/or upgrading of infrastructure / visitor services
• Identification of ongoing revenue costs associated to management structures, staffing and maintenance
• Identification of potential funding opportunities and lead on the workup of a DRAFT APPLICATION to submission stage.