CLIENT:
Cork City Council
PROJECT NAME: REPORT TITLE:
Cork City Electric Vehicle Charging Strategy
SEA Environmental Report
4.2 Population and Human Health In the 2022 Census, the total population of Cork City was 224,004 persons 11 .
Cork City is identified by the Southern Regional Assembly Regional Spatial and Economic Strategy (RSES) 2019- 2031 as being part of the Cork Metropolitan Area. The transitional population projection for the Cork Metropolitan Area until 2031 is 408,826 persons 12 . There are features within the emerging Strategy which could influence the human environment in the city and interact with various environmental components. With regard to human health, impacts relevant to the SEA are those which arise as a result of interactions with environmental vectors (i.e. environmental components such as air, water or soil through which contaminants or pollutants, which have the potential to cause harm, can be transported so that they come into contact with human beings). Hazards or nuisances to human health can arise as a result of exposure to these vectors arising from incompatible adjacent land uses, for example.
4.2.1 Key Considerations relating to the Strategy The key considerations in relation to Population and Human Health were as follows:
• EV infrastructure development may influence the human environment and land use in the urban setting of Cork City. • Existing settlement patterns will influence the location of EV charge points. • The construction of EV infrastructure can cause temporary disruption to the local community, such as noise, dust, disruption to services/utilities and traffic etc.
11 Central Statistics Office. 2022. F1004A – Population (cso.ie) https://data.cso.ie/table/F1004A 12 Regional Spatial and Economic Strategy for the Southern Region 2019-2031
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