Submission from the Office of the Planning Regulator (Submission No 426)
Issues / Recommendations / Observations
Chief Executive’s Resp onse & Recommendation
• Inter connections between the City Centre, City Docks and Tivoli Docks. • Enable high levels of mobility connecting BusConnects Cork, the proposed LRT route and the emerging Lee to Sea Greenway
• Land use planning around planned transport interchanges
• Built Heritage and Conservation, including maritime heritage
• GBI implementation, Natural Heritage, and Biodiversity management
• Co-ordinating Placemaking objectives at a local level
• River Transport and Mobility (including water-based transport and recreation) • River use management to balance demand and potentially conflicting interests.
1.3. Compact Growth and Regeneration
The OPR welcomes the positive policies, objectives and strategies in the draft Plan promoting compact growth and urban regeneration.
Cork City Council is committed to compact growth and urban regeneration. Figures 2.20, 2.21 and 2.22 are not intended to reflect or imply land-use zoning objectives. However, in order to address any ambiguity in the Draft Plan, these figures will be amended in the final Plan to omit the areas referred to in Observation 3. Recommendation: Amend Figures 2.20, 2.21 and 2.22 to reflect a more accurate alignment of the built up edge of Cork City.
Observation 3 – Compact growth The planning authority is advised to amend the maps in Figures 2.20, 2.21 and 2.22 of the Core Strategy to omit those extensive greenfield lands defined as ‘City Suburbs’ and as ‘compact growth’, which it is not proposed to zone and which are not identified in the tiered approach to zoning.
1.4. Standards & Guidelines
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