e. Optimising the potential of brownfield sites (see Objective 3.4); f. Actively encouraging the re-use of vacant space within existing buildings (especially built heritage assets and those in the City Centre) and vacant homes by utilising all instruments at Cork City Council’s disposal; g. Ensuring that all new housing developments contribute to the creation and / or maintenance of successful neighbourhoods and are designed to the highest standards (see Chapter 11: Placemaking and Managing Development).
g. Optimising the use of land (see PO HSC3: Density of development, below); h. Establishing ambitious and achievable build- out rates at the planning stage to help ensure that homes are built quickly and to reduce the likelihood of permissions being sought to sell land on at a higher value; i. Influencing Government to update the legislative, guidance, fiscal and financial framework to the benefit of housing delivery on brownfield sites; j. Combining its role as planning authority and housing authority to bring about residential development to meet demand and need; k. Where new sustainable transport infrastructure is planned land use designations will be reviewed and updated, where appropriate to provide for housing or mixed use development (including housing); l. Unlock the development potential of brownfield sites to be used as an evidence base and business case for intervention; and m. Ensuring that all new housing developments contribute to the creation and / or maintenance of successful neighbourhoods. n. Identify and promote the development potential of brownfield, small sites, regeneration areas and infrastructure packages to enable progress towards achieving compact growth targets. o. Encourage the retrofitting and reuse of existing buildings, rather than their demolition and reconstruction.
Objective 3.4
Compact Growth Cork City Council will seek to ensure that at least 66% of all new homes will be provided within the existing footprint of Cork. Cork City Council will seek to ensure that at least 33% of all new homes will be provided within brownfield sites in Cork. Optimising the potential for housing delivery on all suitable and available brownfield sites will be achieved by: a. Cork City Council acting as a development agency to kickstart regeneration of sites and buildings, utilising acquisition as required; b. Progress housing and employment delivery in urban centres and strategic regeneration sites; c. Active land management utilising the range of tools available (including the Derelict Sites Act 1990 and the Urban Regeneration and Housing Act 2015); d. The redevelopment of surplus utility and public sector owned sites; e. The development of small sites and the re-use of existing designated and undesignated built heritage assets on those sites; f. The utilisation of planning and urban design tools to provide a framework for the development of sites (e.g. masterplanning, framework plans, neighbourhood strategies, historic area regeneration strategies, site specific briefs);
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