Objective 9.8
Objective 9.10
Flood Protection To protect, enhance and manage the City’s floodplains, wetlands and coastal habitat areas that are subject to flooding as vital ‘green infrastructure’ which provides space for storage and conveyance of floodwater, enabling flood risk to be more effectively managed and reduce the need to provide flood defence infrastructures. Cork Council will also require that all proposed flood protection or alleviation works will be subject to Appropriate Assessment to ensure there are no likely significant effects on the integrity, defined by the structure and function, of any European Sites and that the requirements of Article 6 of the EU Habitats Directive are met.
Development in Flood Risk Areas
a. To restrict development in identified flood risk areas, in particular flood plains. All new development proposals should comply with the requirements of the Planning System and Flood Risk Management –Guidelines for Planning Authorities (2009) and Department of Environment, Community and Local Government Circular PL2/2014, in particular through the application of the sequential approach and the Development Management Justification Test. b. All significant proposals for development identified as being vulnerable to flooding will be required to provide a site specific Flood Risk Assessment to identify potential loss of floodplain storage and proposals for the storage or attenuation (e.g. SUDS) of run-off discharges (including foul drains) to ensure development does not increase the flood risk in the relevant catchment. c. Adopt a river catchment approach to rivers entering the City, practicing natural flood management wherever practical and appropriate.
Objective 9.11
Objective 9.9
Waste Management a. To support the sustainable management of waste in line with the objectives of the Southern Region Waste Management Plan 2015-2021 and its successor. b. To facilitate the transition to a circular
Flood Protection Schemes
To work with the Office of Public Works (OPW) in the progression and completion of Flood Risk Management Plans and flood relief schemes including the Lower Lee Flood Relief Scheme (LLFRS), schemes in Blackpool, Glanmire / Glashaboy, Douglas / Togher and other schemes that may be developed during the period of the plan.
economy facilitating the value recovery and recirculation of resources in order to generate minimal waste.
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