This will influence: • A land use strategy that seeks to ensure that there will be a strong presence of people and activity around-the-clock, combining residential, community and destination uses; • The active promotion of a meanwhile use strategy to encourage people to come to the City Docks and make it part of their City experience, giving the City Docks an economic and people profile that can be responded to in future developments; • The design of all streets and spaces so that they optimise placemaking value and provide the arena for people to enjoy the opportunities presented by spaces, for meeting and also to carry out functional trips; • The public realm will be designed to ensure that all age groups are given equal consideration and universal design principles are applied; • All streets will be designed to give highest priority to pedestrians and cyclists, with many streets being Pedestrian and Cycle Streets.
Local Area Planning
10.27 This Plan provides a strategic policy that will form the basis for the development of the City Docks. Cork City Council will seek to prepare urban design masterplans for the City Docks to update the urban design strategy for the development of the area. Following completion of the masterplans, Cork City Council may seek to prepare Character Area Guidance to guide the development of individual sites or areas in the City Docks. Cork City Council will also seek to update the Docklands Public Realm Strategy Policy Documents during the lifetime of this Plan. The masterplans will be prepared with key stakeholders including Irish Rail / CIE.
Placemaking Strategy
The River Lee
10.28 It is an ambition of Cork City Council that the development of the City Docks is an exemplar development. The City Docks will have a strong sense of place built around a range of factors: • Exemplar ambition (see Objective 10.18); • A place for people (see Objective 10.19); • The River Lee (see Objective 10.20); • Character areas (see Objective 10.21); • Building on its uniqueness (see Objective 10.22); • Integration into its surroundings (see Objective 10.23); • Climate resilience (see Objective 10.24); • High quality amenities including Marina Park (see Objective 10.25); • A high quality public realm and key streets (see Public Realm section and Objective 10.32).
10.30 The River Lee is the key physical asset of the City Docks, the river corridor itself being a manmade structure and product of civic design from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The river corridor is therefore a built heritage asset, will also be a key focal point for people to gather and enjoy, and is also a biodiversity asset. 10.31 The River Lee space will need to integrate the following into its public realm: • Strategic walkways / cycleways (“greenways”); • Quayside Amenity Areas (including passive and active recreation, seating, focal points, etc.); • Bridges and their approaches / abutments; • Flood defences that are integrated into the public realm, and embraces both the heritage of the area and the amenity of the river; • Access to the river to enable a significant expansion in water-based recreational activity, reflecting Cork’s cultural heritage; • Built heritage assets to maintain the identity of the wharfs / docklands.
A Place for People
10.29 A key component of the development of the City Docks will be an over-riding ambition that it is developed as a place for people (see Objective 10.19).
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