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    • Plants
      • Displays
        • St Martha's Bridge Display
        • Sown Wildflower Seeds
          • Our Wildflower Flowering Guide
          • Bailis Downs Fence Line
          • JPP Wildflowers
        • Athlumney Hall Herb Verge
        • Daffodils and Tulips
        • Sunflower Trail
          • Sunflower Trail Welcome
          • 2023 Sunflower Trail
          • 2022 Sunflower Trail
          • 2021 Sunflower Trail
        • School Campus Roundabout
        • Estate Marker Stones
        • Spireview Steps
        • Bus Stop Planting
      • Summer Meadows
        • Increase Lawn Biodiversity
        • Spireview Lawn
        • Spireview Parade
        • Former Petrol Station Verge
        • Chestnut Elm Estate
        • Johnstown Wood End of Road
        • Kilcarn Bridge Field
      • Trees
        • Leaf Mould
        • Metges Road Avenue
        • Tree Pruning
        • Dispersed Urban Orchard
        • Hedgerows
        • Mini Forests
          • Mini Forest Project Plan
        • Tree Survey
        • Bailis Downs Wall
    • Initiatives
      • My Tree
      • Clover Lawn
      • Garden Birds
      • Biodiversity Action Plan
      • Surveys
      • Delay the first Spring cut
      • Don't Mow Let It Grow
      • Cut Less Often
      • Litter Control
      • Graffiti
      • Stop Weedkiller Action Project
      • Pre-Loved Gardening
      • Vacant Buildings
      • Transport
      • Water Conservation
      • Plastic Election Poster Free Zone
      • Newspaper Grow Pots
      • Compost
      • Gather the Tribe
  • Offer Your Help
    • Constitution
    • Principles of Good Governance
    • AGM
  • Competitions
    • Tidy Towns
      • 2023-24 Competition Entry
        • 1 Community – Your Planning and Involvement. 2023 - 24
        • 2 Streetscape & Public Places 2023 - 24
        • 3 Green Spaces and Landscaping 2023 - 24
        • 4 Nature and Biodiversity in Your Locality 2023 - 24
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        • 6 Tidiness and Litter Control 2022-23
        • 7 Residential Streets & Housing Areas 2022-23
        • 8 Approach Roads, Streets & Lanes 2022-23
    • Pride Of Place
      • 2024 Extra Large Town
      • 2024 Green Km
      • 2024 Community Wellbeing
      • 2023 Best Town
      • 2022 Best Town
      • 2022 Actions For Pollinators
      • 2022 Community Wellbeing
    • Green Schools
    • Volunteer Of The Year
  • Our Goals
    • 1 Community – Your Planning and Involvement
    • 2 Streetscape & Public Places
    • 3 Green Spaces and Landscaping
    • 4 Nature and Biodiversity in your Locality
    • 5 Sustainability – Doing more with less
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    • 8 Approach Roads, Streets & Lanes
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      • Plants
        • Displays
          • St Martha's Bridge Display
          • Sown Wildflower Seeds
            • Our Wildflower Flowering Guide
            • Bailis Downs Fence Line
            • JPP Wildflowers
          • Athlumney Hall Herb Verge
          • Daffodils and Tulips
          • Sunflower Trail
            • Sunflower Trail Welcome
            • 2023 Sunflower Trail
            • 2022 Sunflower Trail
            • 2021 Sunflower Trail
          • School Campus Roundabout
          • Estate Marker Stones
          • Spireview Steps
          • Bus Stop Planting
        • Summer Meadows
          • Increase Lawn Biodiversity
          • Spireview Lawn
          • Spireview Parade
          • Former Petrol Station Verge
          • Chestnut Elm Estate
          • Johnstown Wood End of Road
          • Kilcarn Bridge Field
        • Trees
          • Leaf Mould
          • Metges Road Avenue
          • Tree Pruning
          • Dispersed Urban Orchard
          • Hedgerows
          • Mini Forests
            • Mini Forest Project Plan
          • Tree Survey
          • Bailis Downs Wall
      • Initiatives
        • My Tree
        • Clover Lawn
        • Garden Birds
        • Biodiversity Action Plan
        • Surveys
        • Delay the first Spring cut
        • Don't Mow Let It Grow
        • Cut Less Often
        • Litter Control
        • Graffiti
        • Stop Weedkiller Action Project
        • Pre-Loved Gardening
        • Vacant Buildings
        • Transport
        • Water Conservation
        • Plastic Election Poster Free Zone
        • Newspaper Grow Pots
        • Compost
        • Gather the Tribe
    • Offer Your Help
      • Constitution
      • Principles of Good Governance
      • AGM
    • Competitions
      • Tidy Towns
        • 2023-24 Competition Entry
          • 1 Community – Your Planning and Involvement. 2023 - 24
          • 2 Streetscape & Public Places 2023 - 24
          • 3 Green Spaces and Landscaping 2023 - 24
          • 4 Nature and Biodiversity in Your Locality 2023 - 24
          • 5 Sustainability – Doing more with less 2023 - 24
          • 6 Tidiness and Litter Control 2023 - 24
          • 7 Residential Streets & Housing Areas 2023 - 24
          • 8 Approach Roads, Streets & Lanes 2023 - 24
        • 2022-23 Competition Entry
          • 1 Community – Your Planning and Involvement. 2022 - 23
          • 2 Streetscape & Public Places 2022-23
          • 3 Green Spaces and Landscaping 2022-23
          • 4 Nature and Biodiversity in Your Locality 2022-23
          • 5 Sustainability – Doing more with less 2022-23
          • 6 Tidiness and Litter Control 2022-23
          • 7 Residential Streets & Housing Areas 2022-23
          • 8 Approach Roads, Streets & Lanes 2022-23
      • Pride Of Place
        • 2024 Extra Large Town
        • 2024 Green Km
        • 2024 Community Wellbeing
        • 2023 Best Town
        • 2022 Best Town
        • 2022 Actions For Pollinators
        • 2022 Community Wellbeing
      • Green Schools
      • Volunteer Of The Year
    • Our Goals
      • 1 Community – Your Planning and Involvement
      • 2 Streetscape & Public Places
      • 3 Green Spaces and Landscaping
      • 4 Nature and Biodiversity in your Locality
      • 5 Sustainability – Doing more with less
      • 6 Tidiness and Litter Control
      • 7 Residential Streets & Housing Areas
      • 8 Approach Roads, Streets & Lanes
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7 Residential Streets & Housing Areas 

Johnstown has a significant amount of housing and every house, open space, and street matters.

Our Goals

2019 to 2022/23

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Competition Guide Notes:

Residential streets that include Town Houses are integral parts of towns and villages and should be treated in a similar fashion to public and private housing developments. Consideration is given to proper presentation and maintenance of all properties with due cognisance given to maintenance of frontages, boundary and gable end walls. Gardens, where applicable, should be presented to a good standard. In housing developments green areas should be cut regularly. Children’s play areas to be considered with equipment maintained to best standards. Where possible individual estates should have suitable name signs - stones, plaques, sign posts, etc. preferably bilingual. 

  1. Estate Lawn Management  

 2023

  •  Support estates who are hosting summer meadows.

2022

  • Encourage estates to participate in Pollinator Project: 

      • Stop weed killer use, ✔️ 

      • Participate in verge edge cutting project, ✔️ 

      • Mulching around trees, ✔️ 

      • Host summer meadows / six-week cutting of certain areas, ✔️ 

      • Delayed Spring cut, ✔️ 

      • No Mow May initiative ✔️ 

      • Don't Mow Yet initiative✔️ 

      • Planting for pollinators. ✔️ 

2021

  • Promote No Mow May ✔️ 

  • Engage a high visibility area to Pilot growing pockets of long grass ✔️ 

  • Identify estates using weed killer and promote the benefits of stopping. ✔️ 

2020

  • Encourage estates to delay first cut of the year ✔️ 

  • Engage Pilot project to grow pockets of long grass ✔️ 

2019

  • Establish amount of estate lawns and potential annual cutting costs  ✔️ 

2. Estate signs 

2022/23

  • Assist the 5 estates on north Metges Road to create planting around their entrance marker stones: Bailis Downs, Johnstown Wood: Chestnut, Elm, Birch, and Maple.

2021

  • Survey to identify bi lingual signage requirements ✔️ 

2020

  • Promote presenting entry marker stones as planting display areas ✔️ 

3. Resident Groups Engagement 

2022 & 23

  • Not all estates have formal residents groups, with some looking after their road, or even cluster of houses. We have endeavoured to reach out to them of formal/informal contact. ✔️ 

2021

  • Promote joining and recording actions on the National Pollinator Plan ✔️ 

  • Engage a street to pilot a themed planting display ✔️ 

2020

  • Promote joining Meath PPN and to engage with best practice and networking ✔️ 

2019

  • Identify all formal groups and engage litter picks on a rotational basis. ✔️ 

4. Encourage and promote the Grow it Yourself (GIY) initiative 

 2022

  •  Sunflower plants will be distributed in June 2022 for residents to grow in front gardens to enhance the Johnstown Sunflower Trail.

2021

  • Promote Meath County Council sustainable gardening course✔️ 

  • Meath County Library Grow It Forward initiaitive✔️ 

2020

  • Encourage GYI through information articles in Community Magazine ✔️ 

2019

  • Encourage GYI through information articles in Community Magazine ✔️ 

5. Promote water conservation and encourage rainwater harvesting. 

2022

  • Survey to establish usage and group discount purchase to be made.

  • Research and apply for funding for a portable 300ltr water tank that can be transported by car.

2020

  • Survey to establish usage 

2019

  • Rainwater Buggy created for watering public planting.

6. Promote 'Bee Friendly' Gardens 

2022 & 23

  • Promote Sunflowers and our Trail 2022 ✔️ 

2021

  • Encourage residents to pledge their gardens in the pollinators.ie National Biodiversity Survey. ✔️ 

  • Promote Pollinator Friendly plants ✔️ 

  • Promote Native Irish Wildflower Seeds ✔️ 

2020

  • Wildflower Articles ✔️ 

2019

  • Christmas Stall at St Stephens NS offering wildflower seeds ✔️ 

7. Raise the profile of Johnstown Tidy Towns and the supports it offers to Residential Streets and Housing Areas not currently aware of our work 

2022 & 23

  • Gain sponsorship through businesses advertising their support on signage. ✔️

  • Utilise the website to promote our endeavours, aims, and call for volunteers.

  • Utilise high visibility projects to raise awareness of our group:

      • Sunflower Trail 2022

      • Biodiversity Sites: Summer Meadows, Tree Planting, Wildflowers, Bridge Baskets

2021

  • Engage better via social media ✔️

  • Utilise street posters for highly visual projects. ✔️

2019

  • Engage with Litter picks ✔️

Goals Categories

Community – Your Planning and Involvement

Streetscape & Public Places

Green Spaces and Landscaping

Nature and Biodiversity in your Locality

Sustainability – Doing more with less

Tidiness and Litter Control

Residential Streets & Housing Areas

Approach Roads, Streets & Lanes

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