CE Report on the Draft Plan Consultation Volume 1

Appendices

Including SEA, AA and SFRA

Submission from the Environmental Protection Agency (submissions 58 and 205)

Issues / Recommendations / Observations

Chief Executive’s Response & Recommendation

Cork City Council should also ensure that the Plan aligns with key relevant higher-level plans and programmes and is consistent with the relevant objectives and policy commitments of the National Planning Framework and the Southern Regional Spatial and Economic Strategy.

It is recommended to include additional text in the Draft Plan to support the City’s Council’s commitment unde r RSES Objective 79 and Cork MASP Objective 3 Cork Harbour to collaborate with other maritime stakeholders to prepare A Cork Harbour Planning Framework Initiative. Recommendation: (iii) Update text under 7.20 Support Sustainable Economic Growth as follows: 7.20 The NPF sets ambitious targets for Cork City to grow by 125,000 by 2040. It is estimated that approximately 31,000 jobs will need to be created in Cork City by 2028. This will require a considerable effort by employers, agencies and academia to ensure that the City’s economic ecosystem can support this level of job creation. It will also need a broad range of property solutions to satisfy the needs of employers, from entrepreneurs and small businesses to larger multi-national companies, and cater for office based, manufacturing and services based employment. The competing issues and trans- boundary nature of Cork’s Maritime and Harbour economy requires collaboration as part of A Cork Harbour Planning Framework Initiative , as per RSES Objective 79 and Cork MASP Objective 3 Cork Harbour. Cork City Council is committed

Content of the Draft Plan Cork Harbour Strategic Integrated Framework Plan Initiative

We acknowledge the reference in Section 1.22 to the Cork Harbour Strategic Integrated Framework Plan Initiative and the link to Objective RP079 of the Southern Regional Spatial and Ec onomic Strategy…’ to promote the Shannon Integrated Framework Plan initiative as a good practice model for the Southern Region and to seek the preparation of similar initiatives for Cork Harbour and Waterford Harbour between the relevant stakeholders…’. Th ere is merit to clarifying if the Cork Harbour Strategic Integrated Framework Plan Initiative will be progressed during the lifetime of the Plan.

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