Policy context – local
The vision for Cork City’s growth and development has evolved at the local level.
Prepared as Ireland as a whole emerged from the shadow of global recession, the CDP for 2015-2021 sought to consolidate and support Cork City’s recovery as a successful and sustainable regional capital with a robust and diverse local economy.
Cork City Development Plan (CDP) 2015-2021 The current CDP has established the policies and objectives for Cork City’s spatial development for the period 2015- 2021. It determines land use zoning and development management standards that guide Cork’s spatial development.
The City Centre is identified as both the priority development area for Cork City and as the key economic driver for the wider metropolitan area. The CDP presents a set of core principles aimed at ensuring Cork City continues to perform as a ‘healthy heart’ for the region, expanding it’s core retail and tourism functions, growing it’s residential and employment base and ensuring resilience against vacancy and dereliction: 1. Provide a sustainable mix of different land uses, developing new retail, commercial and residential uses to ensure a vibrant and attractive city centre
2. Protect and enhance the City Centre’s unique built and natural heritage, leveraging its urban form and riverside setting to create a city of character 3. Ease access to and within the City Centre, providing public transport options and better conditions for pedestrians and cyclists to ensure the city remains accessible and continues to attract growth and inward investment.
The Draft CPD for 2022-2028 presents an updated vision for Cork’s spatial development as a world class city that is resilient, inclusive and continues to drive local and regional growth. The CDP for 2022-2028 aligns with the strategic principles of the NPF and RSES and provides a clear focus on the development of a compact ‘15-minute’ city, in which commercial services, amenities and community facilities are available in close proximity to one’s home.
Draft Cork City Development Plan 2022-2028 The forthcoming Cork CDP for the period 2022-2028 will be unique in that it is the first local plan to reflect the expansion of Cork City Council’s administrative boundaries in 2019 to incorporate the wider Cork Metropolitan Area.
centre and further developing it’s potential as an attractive place in which to live. This will go hand in hand with efforts to address vacancy and dereliction within the City Centre, as the CDP seeks to support the re-use of vacant upper floors for residential ‘over the shop’ living. Other key areas include supporting core retail and office functions and ensuring a vibrant mix of cultural and entertainment destinations so that the City Centre meets its full potential as a vibrant place to live, work and spend time in.
The Core Strategy of the CDP emphasises the consolidation and regeneration of the city centre to further underpin its performance as a vibrant and working heart for the metropolitan region. A key element of this is increasing the residential population of the city
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