CONTENTS
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Taking action on climate change
Welcome: Lord Mayor of Cork
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Protecting Cork from flooding
Foreword: Chief Executive
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Creating a greener, healthier city
Changing the way we travel
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Festivals and events: 2024
Innovating to find housing solutions
How Cork City Council supports you
A new era for Cork Docklands
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Meet your councillors
Creating quality streetscapes
CLLR. KIERAN MCCARTHY Lord Mayor of Cork
WELCOME
This ‘Our City is Changing’ information booklet is being delivered to homes and businesses to give a better understanding of the exciting future that is being planned for our historic city by the Lee. Up to €2.5 billion is being invested in Cork over the next five years with significant investment in housing, sustainable transport, parks, public spaces and climate resilience. This forms part of a wider €10 billion investment pipeline over the next 10 years. This unprecedented investment in our city is about ensuring that as our city’s population increases, our quality of life does not suffer but rather is enhanced for current and future generations. On the night that I was elected Lord Mayor of Cork, I spoke of how we must never take our democracy for granted and how the citizens and communities must be ‘front and centre’ of our priorities as Elected Members of Cork City Council. These priorities include delivering substantial quantities of social and affordable housing, tackling homelessness, increasing our sustainable transport options, supporting the offering in the city centre, creating new amenities and ensuring that our city is ‘future-proofed’ by being more sustainable and healthier in accordance with the World Health Organisation (WHO) Healthy Cities movement.
I hope this booklet helps to bring our changing city to life and that you, as people who live and work in the city, will feel excited, better informed and better equipped to engage around the many transformative projects that are being planned and delivered for our communities. Our ambition is to have a city with top-class public transport, a vibrant city centre, a greener city with safe, new and attractive amenities, a much improved public realm, and a city that is easier to get around on foot or by bike.
Is mise le meas, Cllr. Kieran McCarthy Lord Mayor of Cork
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