A city of neighbourhoods and communities
Develop a sustainable, liveable city of neighbourhoods and communities based on the 15-minute city concept, ensuring that placemaking is at the heart of all development. Neighbourhoods/Communities
Increasingly, cities are considered in terms of neighbourhoods. Through the ‘15-Minute City’ concept, residents can meet their daily needs within a 15-minute radius of their home and has been widely accepted as an appropriate principle on which to develop urban policy.
The City Centre area comprises more than 11% of Cork city’s population, with >24,000 residents as at June 2020 (~22,700 in 2016). The Draft City Development Plan (CDP) anticipates that the population of the City Centre will grow by 15% to over 26,000 by 2028. Greater supply and diversity of housing choice is required to cater for this population growth and to ensure that the City Centre remains an attractive and viable location in which to live, and to complement the planned development of the Docklands area. Both the construction of new residential units and the refurbishment of the existing building stock in the City Centre will help address housing need, while also helping to combat vacancy and dereliction. At Q3 2021, ~1,000 apartments were in the planning pipeline or were going into planning. It is envisioned that further economic recovery after the pandemic and new measures introduced under the Government’s Housing for All Plan will support the construction and delivery of new housing units in the City Centre. Though housing need will be primarily met through the delivery of new units, there is also scope to enhance the implementation of the Living City Initiative to help further address vacancy and to support the sustainable re-use of properties within the City Centre.
The framework highlights four key characteristics: • Proximity: Things must be close (Cork meets this criteria)
• Diversity: Land uses must be mixed to provide a wide variety of urban amenities nearby (typically a balanced land use mix across the city, although some gaps in green amenity access in some areas) • Density: There must be enough people to support a diversity of businesses in a compact land area (evident high demand for city centre living) • Ubiquity: These neighbourhoods must be so common that they are available and affordable to anyone who wants to live in one (relatively small geographic footprint of the city centre an enabler) Realising the 15-minute city centres requires broad public engagement and buy-in, detailed measurement and analysis, engaging a wide range of stakeholders. Cork City Centre offers a wide selections of goods, services and amenities, most of which are available within a 15-minute walk from the city centre (see map).
Comparative learnings: Waterside living in Bristol, Nantes (Dockland), Dublin (Docklands), Madison, WI (child spaces) Stakeholders: Cork City Council, Dept. of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, Housing Finance Agency, Land Development Agency
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