Objective 10.28
Objective 10.30
Objective 10.29 City Docks Community Infrastructure and a Community Hub • Cork City Council will support the development of community facilities to meet the needs of the City Docks, including a Community Hub facility in the City Docks to meet the needs of the neighbourhood. • Cork City Council will support facilities for rescue, emergency and safety services in Cork City Docklands. • During the lifetime of this Development Plan Cork City Council will seek to prepare a Community Hub Feasibility Study to inform the development of a project for delivery. Balanced Community and Social and Affordable Housing Cork City Council will seek to provide at least 20% of homes in the City Docks as below- market priced housing in the form of Social and Affordable housing products, in accordance with the Joint Housing Strategy. Cork City Council will utilise Part V of the Planning and Development Act 2000 (as amended) and will work with its partners to utilise available measures and opportunities to provide below-market priced housing products.
Active Recreational Infrastructure
To ensure that the City Docks provides for the active recreational needs of the living and working community. To develop an ARI Strategy for the City Docks that ensures that active recreational need is met whilst optimising use of all assets for public usage in accessible locations, and to prepare feasibility studies for necessary infrastructure (e.g. swimming pools / leisure centre, sports halls and sports hubs). To undertake land acquisition, design and delivery of active recreational infrastructure within the City Docks to provide for the needs of the community. To update the Docks Public Realm Masterplan with a view to integrate small-scale active recreational provision into the public realm to optimise the value of streets and spaces. To encourage water-based leisure activities and land site facilities such as rowing, light craft and swimming. To require developments to make provision for on-site ARI commensurate to the scale of the proposed development.
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