Cork City’s Local Economic and Community Plan 2024 - 2029
High-level Goals For 2024 – 2029 This plan incorporates realistic and achievable goals, objectives and actions that will deliver real impacts.
The consultations also highlighted the value of having a more city-wide approach to community and economic development especially in the area of integration. Ensuring safety across the city, both city centre and residential areas, featured strongly in our public survey. There was a clear call for increased community-level partnership with Cork City Council and more community resourcing . The survey also identified a need for enhanced partnership with universities and institutes of further education to advance education attainment in all communities. Improved accessibility to services also featured very strongly in consultation feedback. This ranged from making community facilities and businesses more accessible, providing training and skills to young people in communities with poor socio-economic outcomes, to making arts, culture and library facilities more accessible. The written submissions reflected the city’s potential for placemaking and investment in community infrastructure. This included revitalising the city centre and city suburban areas, the rejuvenation of the Dockland areas and derelict buildings and the creation of a connected, chain of green spaces and riverfront amenities. Overall, the feedback highlighted areas of public concern that impact all our lives. In particular, it calls for us to address the issues faced by the most vulnerable . The LCDC, Cork City Council and partner organisations will keep this focus as it implements the actions of the LECP over the next 6 years.
In this plan, we have six high-level goals.
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A city valuing health and wellbeing.
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A city built on partnership, inclusion, and equality.
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A city of learning and culture.
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A city driving economic and enterprise development.
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A city of safe, accessible and resilient neighbourhoods and communities.
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A city leading on sustainability and climate action.
Each of the six high-level goals is aligned with relevant policy and informed by up-to-date statistics and extensive consultation. From each of these goals, a set of objectives and actions flow. These drive the goals forward and ensure this plan is backed by action. You can read further into each of the goals in their respective chapters. However, no single chapter works in isolation – chapters are often inter-connected, one lifting and complementing the other. Each high-level goal also features a case study that highlights the successes of Pure Cork and shows the practical and most impactful uses of investment, resources, planning, and economic and community development.
This is where policy meets people and partnership creates capacity.
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