Jamestown Regional Park will be be a fantastic community amenity once its finished, but that’s what makes the delays to it all the more frustrating. Here’s an 2025 update on where the Jamestown Regional Park project is at.
First, what is Jamestown Regional Park? It’s a long-planned park on the almost 50 hectares of land that was the Ballyogan Landfill, in between Ballyogan Road, Clay Farm, the Enniskerry Road and the new Glenamuck Distributor Road. See my 2024 update on Jamestown Regional Park here.
The latest is that the Environmental Protection Agency have ordered 12 weeks of methane testing on the site before they will sign off on the council’s application for a license to construct a 2.5km looped path as Phase 1 of Jamestown Park. This testing began in early November 2025 so will finish up in February 2026. If the EPA are happy that methane levels are safe enough to grant the license, as we hope they will, the council will quickly start building the 2.5km loop.
Pressure to deliver
I had a motion at our Area Committee meeting in January 2025 on Jamestown Regional Park and why there has been no progress on it (attached with the disappointing reply from the head of Parks). Because it was a motion, we get a chance to quiz council management on it verbally during the meeting. You can watch back that discussion at this link from 27:35 onwards. Both Councillor Lettie McCarthy and myself both had motions on Jamestown Park so they were discussed at the same time. As you can hear from the meeting and the response from the council manager overseeing the project, the urgency really wasn’t there at the time.
In July of this year, I arranged a meeting between the DLR Chief Executive, myself and the other 6 local councillors to discuss this and other major projects that were not seeing enough real progress for one reason or another. We received commitments that an experienced project manager would be assigned to Jamestown Park and that has happened, which is how we have some more progress towards opening.
Every chance I get, I emphasise to council management that the area we represent has been delivering a substantial amount of the housing needed in this country, but the infrastructure has not kept up.
Overall, it’s positive that we’re at the final stage of EPA approval, and that the council are well set up to get contractors onsite quickly to build Phase 1.
The council have also given a commitment to run a public consultation in 2026, on the masterplan for Jamestown Park. This will allow you to feed in your ideas and needs for the new park.
Access
While Phase 1 will open up pedestrian/cycle access from the Cruagh Greenway and Ballyogan Road, there is still a challenge with access from the Kilternan, Glenamuck and Carrickmines sides of Jamestown Park. These are the areas most in need of a public green space so I will be looking for the council to use every opportunity to open up access to Jamestown Park from these areas as soon as possible.
