[ Cork City Council - Annual Report 2020 ]
of Project Benefits: Upgrading the junction to current design standards and guidelines. Providing safe crossing facilities for vulnerable users. Addressing the incidents of collisions, particularly right turning vehicles at the junction.
Pedestrian Safety Interventions
Cork City Council, with funding from the National Transport Authority, provided pedestrian safety inventions and upgrades at a number of locations across the city. In 2020 schemes were completed at the following locations: Cardinal Way, Wilton; Mick Barry Road; Spring Lane; Silversprings; Magazine Road. The objectives of the schemes are to enhance pedestrian connectivity between settlements, employment hubs, educational facilities and public transport services: Improve safety for vulnerable road users. New and upgraded footpaths. New controlled and uncontrolled pedestrian crossings: New road markings and signage. A number of further schemes will be completed in 2021.
break the development down into distinct phases of the development. Developers request Bond estimates to follow the phased approach of the development. This results in multiple bond estimates. Bond reductions are frequently made, following site inspections, to permit release of the bond to subsequent phases. 87 bonds were processed in 2020. The Estates Team currently have 125 taking in charge (TIC) applications to hand. This number has significantly increased since the boundary extension (56 TIC applications pre-boundary extension).
Enforcement
Short-Term Letting
Cork City Council imposes a condition on the grant of a planning permission, inter alia, for the provision of financial securities to provide safeguards in the event of a default by the developer, or of the failure or refusal of the developer to complete the development in accordance with the planning permission (or any extension thereof). The amount of security should enable the planning authority, in this case Cork City Council, without cost to themselves, to complete the necessary services (including roads, footpaths, surface water network, lighting and open space) to a satisfactory standard in the event of default by the developer. The Estates Section is required to estimate the bond required to enable Cork City Council to complete the necessary services. For large housing schemes, it is normally appropriate to
The Council’s Short -Term Letting (STL) Unit was established in the latter half of 2020 to implement the provision of the Short-Term Letting Regulations. The aim of the unit is to ensure those that are engaging in short-term letting are compliant with the legislation that was introduced in July 2019. In 2020, eighteen Form15 (annual notification), three Form17 (end of year notification) and two planning applications (two refused, one refusal has been appealed to ABP) were received. Of the 438 short term let properties advertised in the Cork City Council area, the STL team have identified 257 of the addresses as the short term let properties and the Unit is currently engaging with those property owners. From March 2020 to March 2021 there has been a
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