Executive summary
Our key findings are summarised below.
• This report, the Cork City Centre Revitalisation Action Plan, sets out a framework for the further development and growth of the city centre’s economic, environmental, and social fabric for the period 2022-2025 • The previous Cork City Centre Strategy, published in 2014, set out an action plan for the period 2014- 2023. The 2014 Strategy set out a number of key recommendations for the revitalisation of the city centre, organised across four themes – (1) Improvement and development of the built urban environment (2) Marketing for the City Centre (3) Management of the City Centre (4) Short-term footfall projects to attract people into to centre • Since the launch of the last plan, there has been a shift in the national and regional policy direction, with the NPF and RSES prioritising the compact growth of Ireland’s urban centres, to create attractive cities in which to live and work • There have also been significant developments in and around Cork City Centre, with a number of landmark projects planned (e.g. Grand Parade redevelopment, Beamish & Crawford Quarter scheme, Bishop Lucey Park improvements)
• Progress has been made across several of the actions recommended in the 2014 Strategy (see review in Appendix), and the city centre and adjacent docklands area have seen significant levels of growth and investment • Cork City responded strongly to the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020/2021, with public, private and community actors coming together to implement a range of measures to support new opportunities for outdoor dining, socialisation and pedestrianisation • As the city centre emerges from the pandemic, there is a need to support existing businesses to thrive and to attract investors to make investments in the city centre • This Action Plan builds on previous progress and supports policy and objectives across a number of existing and emerging strategies, including the NPF, RSES, Report of the Night-Time Economy Taskforce, the existing Development Plan, and the Draft Development Plan 2022-2028
Background and context
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