Objective 7.9
Cork Digital City
a. To work with partners in implementing the Cork City Digital Strategy and any successor strategy to help communities and businesses meet emerging digital opportunities and compete internationally where digital transformation of economic functions is gaining momentum. b. Working with Cork Smart Gateway, Cork City Council will promote investment in the transition of Cork City and its services to a digital future.
c. Land at Ballyvolane: To provide for a high-quality employment scheme that integrates with wider develop- ment, specifically the Ballyvolane expansion area to the south. d. Land at Glanmire: To provide for a high-quality employment development that will primarily service logistics or logistics related uses. No more than 30% of the zoned land shall be devel- oped for non-logistics related employment uses. e. Land at South Link Industrial Estate: To provide for a natural extension to the existing industrial estate where, owing to the proposed intensification of use, an alternative access strategy through the industrial estate should be prioritised. f. Land at Fairhill: To provide for a high-quality light industrial development scheme that is accessed from Upper Fairhill and suitably responds to the site topography, the site’s frontage onto Nash’s Boreen and the need to protect residential amenity of nearby residential priorities. g. Land at Hollyhill: To provide for a high-quality business and technology scheme capable of accom- modating expansion and other strategic investment in a manner that seeks to protect the surrounding landscape setting.
Objective 7.10
New Strategic Employment Sites
To support the sustainable delivery of high quality employment facilities taking into account other Development Plan objectives relating to zoning, transport and movement, urban design and placemaking, climate action, environmental management and sustainability, biodiversity, protecting cultural and built heritage and taking into account site specific objectives below: a. Blarney Business Park Extension: To provide for a high-quality extension to Blarney Business Park using the existing access to the Park. Any proposed develop- ment needs to safeguard the M/N20 (navy) route option which traverses part of the land until such time as a preferred route is chosen and the requirement lapses if the navy route is not identified as the preferred route. b. Clogheen Business Park Extension: To provide for a high-quality extension to the business park where care is needed to preserve the residential amenity of nearby residential properties.
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