CE Report on the Draft Plan Consultation Volume 1

Chapter 4

Transport and Mobility

Issues / Recommendations / Observations

Sub. No.

Chief Executive’s Response & Recommendation

Roads

Relief Roads

Submission calls for more orbital relief roads around the city to reduce traffic flow through the City Centre.

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Proposed orbital relief roads are set out in CMATS. Cork City Council is pursuing these infrastructure projects with the NTA, TII and other stakeholders. Recommendation: No change.

M28

Submission from TII referring to the M28.

62

See submission 62 in Part 2 of this Report.

M20

Submission from Limerick City Council, the lead authority in the delivery of the N/M20 Cork to Limerick Project Importance of N/M20 Cork to Limerick Project: (i) This submission highlights that the proposed N/M20 Cork to Limerick Project is of strategic and local importance and this should be reflected in the contents of the new Cork City Development Plan and suggest that It would be beneficial if the N/M20 Cork to Limerick project was mentioned as part of the Core Strategy or aligned to it also as a strategically important project. Zoning Maps:

70 Also 62, 103

See also submission 62 from Transport Infrastructure Ireland in Part 2 of this report, and submission 103 from Irish Rail / Iarnród Éireann above. (i) Cork City Council recognises that the N/M20 Cork to Limerick Project is of strategic and local importance. The indicative route for the N/M20 as it applies to the Cork City functional area will be included in the Cork City 2040 Concept Map Figure 2.8. (ii) This site is part of a suite of employment lands that are intended to support National and Regional Policy Objectives in the delivery of ambitious large- scale regeneration projects for the provision of new employment, housing and supporting infrastructure in Cork Docklands, including the relocation of logistics facilities from existing brownfield locations such as Tramore Road. (iii) These proposed textual changes are largely agreeable as per the table in the column to the left.

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