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Development Guidance Tall buildings should be designed to ensure that: 1. They are of exemplary design quality and benefit from a positive design review process. 2. The design process analyses the nearby urban morphology and, where possible, adopts a finer grain of building footprint and slender form. 3. They integrate positively into Cork’s cityscape at a strategic, district and local scale, contribute positively to their immediate context and have a positive relationship with the street and public realm. 4. Their architectural strategy effectively provides a top, middle and bottom to the building. 5. They are energy efficient in terms of: • longevity (designed to last a long time) • embodied energy • energy consumption • glazing ratio • amenity space provision for the enjoyment of occupiers • nature of micro-climate impacts • impacts on the amenities enjoyed by neighbouring properties 6. Additional guidance can be found in the Cork City Urban density, Building Height and Tall Building Study (2021).
Residential Development
11.61 This Section sets out guidance on qualitative, quantitative, and development management criteria for sustainable neighbourhood infrastructure and residential developments. These requirements will form the basis for evaluating planning applications for residential development and their respective supporting neighbourhood infrastructure with a view to ensuring a good quality of life for new neighbourhoods and improving the quality of life for existing neighbourhoods in Cork City. This section is derived principally from the Sustainable Residential Development in Urban Areas (DCHLG, 2009) and
Sustainable Urban Housing: Design Standards for New Apartments (DHPLG, 2018) guidelines, and supplemental best practice. 11.62 Well-designed homes in the right locations are fundamental to building strong, sustainable communities. These general principles on controls and safeguards need to be considered against the general principles set out in Objective 11.1 and in conjunction with a set of quantitative guidelines which are set out in the following pages.
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