Chapter 2
Core Strategy
Issues / Recommendations / Observations
Sub. No.
Chief Executive’s Response & Recommendation
f. Being well-connected with easy access to public transport and active travel. g. Providing enhanced permeability for walking and cycling. h. Non-residential developments shall be located so as to be accessible to the majority of their staff and customers by foot. i. Residential developments shall ensure that the majority of everyday services and a high frequency public transport link to other services, education and employment are available within a 15 min walk of all residences.
These submissions relate to Strategic Objective 1 Compact Liveable Growth and seek: • Inclusion of the protection of the character of the historic city. • Amendments to Strategic Objective 1 to incorporate ‘Healthy City’ as part of its objectives. The amendments are underlined below: To increase the population of Cork City in line with national and regional growth targets. To develop Cork City as an international compact, sustainable, healthy city of scale and that promotes health and trauma responsiveness enabling the city to be a regional driver of growth by creating sustainable,
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Cork is a designated World Health Organisation Healthy City since January 2012 and Cork City Council has committed to improving health and developing a process and structure to achieve this. This is supported by a Healthy City Action Plan 2020-2030. The minor amendments proposed include reference to the sustainable healthy city and to promote health and trauma responsiveness, which are supported through Cork City Council’s Corporate Plan up to 2024 Vision, High Level-Goals and Strategic Objectives. It should be noted that the intention of the Strategic Objective is to establish the broad spectrum of high level issues which relate to the delivery of compact liveable growth, as such the wording is intended to be somewhat generic and more detailed objectives are set out in Chapter 2. The amendments proposed in this submission wish to reflect the importance of healthy living as having strategic significance and is agreed that the inclusion of healthy city would be constructive to the wording of this Objective.
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