Cork City’s Local Economic and Community Plan 2024 - 2029
The Cork City Local Economic and Community Plan (LECP) 2024–2029 will guide economic and community development in our city over the next six years.
This LECP (2024-2029) provides the framework for the local economic development and community development of Cork City. The LECP should also be the main way at local level to bring forward relevant actions arising from national and regional strategies. For example, in the ‘Roadmap for Social Inclusion 2020 – 2025 8 ’ national strategy, there is a recommendation to ‘Support Communities’ by ‘Encouraging Volunteerism’. We have addressed this recommendation for Cork City in several of our actions, particularly action 2.1.3 9 - ‘In collaboration with the community and voluntary sector support and promote a sustainable model of volunteerism in Cork City, creating voluntary opportunities for all ages and abilities and for those experiencing exclusion’ in chapter ‘Partnership, Inclusion and Equality’. You will see this local actioning of national and regional plans throughout the LECP action plan. What Is Local Community Development? The Cork City LCDC understanding of local community development is as a way of working with individuals, groups, and organisations in a local community to identify their needs and address issues and concerns.
The plan outlines the goals, objectives and actions to be implemented over this period. We will carry out this plan directly and in partnership with other economic and community development stakeholders. LECPs are statutory plans meaning all local authorities in Ireland must develop one. They are set out and mandated in the Local Government Reform Act 2014 3 . This Act provides a stronger and clearer role for local government in economic development and community development. This is a key element in achieving the vision set out in ‘Putting People First – Action Programme for Effective Local Government’ 4 : “Local government will be the main vehicle of governance and public service at local level, leading economic, social and community development..” 5
This LECP is building on the achievements of past plans such as:
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Imagine Our Future - 2002-2012
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Pure Cork – LECP 2016 – 2021 6
These plans strengthened inter-agency and partnership working across the city. This helped Cork City to become, for example, a:
It works to meet those needs and solve issues by developing:
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Infrastructure such as parks, play areas and community centres Programmes such as the Sláintecare, RAPID and SICAP programmes Initiatives such as the Pride of Place Awards, Africa Day and LGBTI+ Awareness Week Services such as libraries, community learning and Community Wardens
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UNESCO Learning City
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WHO Healthy City
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WHO Age Friendly City
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Rainbow City
• A Fast-Track City 7 These plans also helped Cork City achieve successes in many other areas.
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