Chapter 8
Heritage, Arts and Culture
Issues / Recommendations / Observations
Sub. No.
Chief Executive’s Response & Recommendation
Objective 8.17 Conservation of the City’s Built Heritage and Objective 8.18 Reuse & Refurbishment Historic Buildings. The Draft Plan has objectives to address vacancy and dereliction across the City including the City Centre and adjoining areas, including Objective 10.2. Recommendation: No change. Support for our cultural assets is supported in several areas of the Development Plan. Local historians are an invaluable resource for the City and their expertise are very much appreciated by Cork City Council. Chapter 8 sets out a number of objectives that aim to preserve, strengthen and enhance Cork City’s unique and historic City Centre. Objective 8.4 sets out the approach to the protection of the Medieval Historic Core. The Draft Plan is supportive of the notion of a Medieval Quarter. Through policies 8.18 – 8.30 the Draft Plan encourages best practice stewardship of historic buildings in private and public ownership in the City. In addition to these policies, Cork City Council provides a number of grant schemes for the conservation of historic structures to encourage building owners to value and retain the special character of our historic structures. While some issues relating to inappropriate signage are operational matters outside the scope of the development plan, the Draft Plan does encourage sensitive and appropriate signage, notably in Chapter 11 of the Draft Plan. Cork City Council will be implementing a decluttering and wayfinding scheme that respects and illustrates the rich heritage of Cork. Recommendation: No Change.
Revival and maintenance of Cork's Historical Centre Reimagining of the historic assets in the city, that the Council will work with historians in the city to develop the ‘Medieval Quarter’, capitalising on the history of the city as a tourism asset. Inappropriate signage should be restricted in historic parts of the city to mitigate visual impacts on protected buildings and suggests alternative display options for historic monuments, such as covered glass as is practiced in Rome. Heritage protection is key to revitalization of Cork by maintaining Identity especially in the Historic City public realm. Integrate the ambitions of heritage protection and links to economic benefit into main policy objectives.
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