Chapter 6
Green and Blue Infrastructure, Open Space and Biodiversity
Issues / Recommendations / Observations
Sub. No.
Chief Executive’s Response & Recommendation
agriculture, community gardens and the incorporation of food growing opportunities into residential development schemes. Recommendation: No change.
• Asking to consider howmuch food can be grown in public spaces by local people and how this leads to a resilient community. • Asking for community garden – growing plants and a social enterprise of local food for local people. • Asking for community composting spaces managed and distributed to communities’ biodiversity plots and individual gardens for their gardens. • Asking for objective to work with farmers and to support organic or plant-based food production. (ii) The submission sets out multiple suggested edits to incorporate a holistic healthy cities approach to a range of the City Development Plan Objectives in the Draft Plan. It asks for a text change regarding Objective 6.8 Community Food Growing. Additional Objective to be added: Cork City Council will work with key stakeholders to develop a sustainable and health food policy for the city and region.
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The Draft Plan supports community food growing and establishes a land use and economic framework in support of food creation. A food policy extends beyond the scope of the Development Plan. Cork City Council will work with stakeholders to progress a food policy in parallel with the Development Plan. Recommendation: No change.
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