Chapter 3
Delivering Homes and Communities
Issues / Recommendations / Observations
Sub. No.
Chief Executive’s Response & Recommendation
children will be included in all areas of planning and development.
Amend Objective 3.20 Cork City as a Child-Friendly City as follows: Objective 3.20 Cork City as a Child-Friendly City
• Apply the UNICEF Principles of a Child Friendly City.
To promote Cork as a child-friendly city by considering the design needs of children young people in terms of appropriate design when changes are proposed to the built environment. All d evelopment must consider the Universal Design approach.
• Address the themes emerging from the Freedom of the City consultation and in the implementation of the plan. • Amend Objective 3.20 to read: ‘To develop Cork as a child-friendly city by considering the needs of children in terms of appropriate design when changes are proposed to the built environment and adopting the UNESCO Child Friendly Principles for the city. All residential developments shall be designed and laid out to ensure 30km/h speed zones are in place.’ Non-planning matters were also raised:
• Creation of position of ‘Children’s Mayor’,
• making provision for budget to support Cork Child Friendly City Strategy and Implementation Plan, and • provision for a dedicated ringfenced children’s activities budget .
School Facilities
In order to facilitate the optimisation of existing school sites for educational purposes: • All school sites should benefit from a “ZO 13 Education” land use zoning objective, including school buildings and their full curtilage.
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It is considered appropriate to zone existing and proposed schools a “ZO 13 Education”. It is possible to provide land buffers around school sites in Cork City given the coherent development framework that is presented in the Draft Plan. Urban
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