Cork City’s Local Economic and Community Plan 2024 - 2029
Identify and Provide Needed Skills Integrated plans can identify what skills are needed by businesses and offer targeted skills-training in that community. This helps build an educated and skilled workforce at local level that will in turn help to attract new businesses into the area. Economic and Community plans can also identify the skills already in local communities so that suitable businesses are attracted into the area. Perceived barriers to employment like poor literacy, different abilities and inadequate childcare can also be identified and services created to help people to overcome those barriers. Cork City can also attract new employment by creating nice, welcoming spaces with a vibrant art, culture, social and sporting scene. This all helps create a compact city where people live near where they work or attend education. This reduces commuting and congestion and improves social networks and the health of a community and its environment.
Who Will This Plan Benefit? This plan targets two different types of communities as follows:
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Communities of geography: these communities are based in a specific neighbourhood or geographical part of the city Communities of interest or identity: these communities have a common sense of identity or set of needs and a can be spread out across the city
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Communities of Geography There are many different ways a geographical community can be related, for example:
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A residents’ group on one street
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A neighbourhood such as Montenotte, Ballyvolane or Knocknaheeny
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A parish such as Ballyphehane, Blackrock and Ballincollig
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The city centre
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City suburbs
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Urban towns such as Ballincollig, Glanmire, Tower and Blarney More rural parts of the city hinterland such as Kerry Pike and White’s Cross
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