Chapter 11
Placemaking and Managing Development
Issues / Recommendations / Observations
Sub. No.
Chief Executive’s Response & Recommendation
Objective 11.6: Purpose-Built Student Accommodation requires improvement in the following regard: • Make clear that developments will be required to provide public open space. • Please consider the use of development standard that result in flexible buildings that may be converted to permanent housing with the appropriate space standards. It is submitted that the UCC Neighbourhood has a very real imbalance of occupiers, with a great majority of homes occupied by students sharing, often with houses adapted to provide a home to significantly more residents than they were designed to accommodate (e.g. 8 people in a 2/3 bed home). It is requested that the development plan address this issue. It is submitted that students are entitled to high quality secure housing. The quality and price of student housing should be regulated. Students wish to be part of communities. It is submitted that the provisions in Objective 11.7: Traveller Accommodation are welcomed. It is suggested that clause c. be broadened to specifically mention stabling, paddocks and livestock.
Recommendation: Include the following clause in Objective 11.6 Purpose-Built Student Accommodation: … l. Schemes should provide for potential future adaptability for alternative uses, for example mainstream residential use, should such a scenario ever arise. Planning applications should include a “Building Adaptation to Alternative Use Strategy” to ensure that this has been considered at design stage.
43, 67, 68, 412 Under current planning legislation there is no restriction on occupancy of a dwelling or house by multiple people. This is a regulatory matter and not one able to be governed by a development plan. While the development plan ensures quality in new developments, it has no role in regulating the price of student housing. Recommendation: No change.
This support is acknowledged. It is agreed to include reference in Objective 11.7 to stabling, paddocks and livestock. Recommendation: Include reference in Objective 11.7: Traveller Accommodation to “stabling, paddocks and livestock” .
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