Cork City’s Local Economic and Community Plan 2024 - 2029
Cork City Development Plan 2022–2028 The 2022-2028 Cork City Development Plan sets out how the city will grow and develop up to 2028. It also complements a longer 2040 vision. For the first time, this statutory plan also encompasses the urban towns of Ballincollig, Blarney, Tower and Glanmire and their wider hinterland areas. With a population of more than 224,000, Cork City is an emerging international city of scale and a national driver of economic and urban growth. Project Ireland 2040 designates Cork City for significant additional growth over the next 20 years. This will be supported by large scale investment. City Development Plan’s Strategic Objectives The Cork City Development Plan 2022-2028 sets out how the city can best enable this growth and investment over the next six years. We will do this while keeping Cork City an innovative, vibrant, healthy and resilient city. The LECP helps to realise many of the strategic objectives laid out in the development plan and we reference these specifically in each of the high-level goal chapters 7 to 12.
The main overarching objectives relevant to the LECP are:
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Strategic objective 2: Delivering homes and communities Strategic objective 6: Economy and enterprise Strategic objective 7: Heritage, arts and culture Strategic objective 9: Placemaking and management development
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Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Each LECP will be developed using the principles of sustainable development. (This is specified in article 66B 17 of the Local Government Reform Act 2014.) The United Nations’ (UN) 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development is a set of 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) that aim by 2030 to:
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End poverty
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Fight inequality and injustice
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Tackle climate change.
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