Objective 7.26
Objective 7.28
Strategic Retail Objectives
District Centres and Ballincollig Urban Town Centre To support the vitality and viability of District Centres and Ballincollig Urban Town Centre by enhancing their mixed-use nature and ensuring they provide an appropriate range of retail and non-retail functions appropriate to the needs of the communities they serve. In addition to retail, these centres must include community, cultural, civic, leisure, restaurants, bars and cafes, entertainment, employment and residential uses. In terms of retail, the emphasis should be on convenience and appropriate (lower order) comparison shopping, in order to protect the primacy of Cork City Centre. The development of District Centres at Ballyvolane, South Docklands and Hollyhill will also be supported to meet the day to day needs of their existing and or planned catchment populations.
a. To support and implement the Cork Metropolitan Area Joint Retail Study and Strategy 2021 upon completion and the Retail Hierarchy in defining the role of retail centres, in preparing plans and in assessing development proposals for retail development. b. To maintain and strengthen the role of Cork City Centre as the primary retail centre in the Cork Metropolitan Area. c. To ensure the resilience of Cork City Centre to changing trends in retail demand. Appropriate opportunities to further diversify the City Centre as a place to live, work and socialise will be encouraged. d. To promote the vitality and viability of District Centres, Urban Town Centres and Neighbour- hood/Local Centres and support their development as mul-tifunctional centres which provide a variety of uses that meet the needs of the communities they serve.
Objective 7.29
Objective 7.27
Blarney and Glanmire Town Centres To support, promote and protect the Urban Town Centres of Blarney and Glanmire, which play an important role in the local shopping role for residents and provide a range of essential day to day services and facilities. In order to support planned population growth in these centres, some additional retail development of an appropriate scale and size may be directed to these centres.
City Centre
To protect and enhance the role of Cork City Centre as the primary retail centre in the Cork Metropolitan Area and the region by facilitating the continued regeneration and modernisation of existing building stock and supporting appropriate new development, coupled with a range of complimentary residential, leisure, recreational and cultural uses and investment in the public realm.
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