Section 1
City Centre &Cork Docklands
Specific Zoning Request
Sub. No.
Map No. Chief Executive’s Response & Recommendation
• to meet the play and sports needs of the schools campuses proposed in the City Docks, as the schools sites will not have the space to accommodate this use. The residual active recreational needs will need to be located outside but accessible to the City Docks (e.g. accessed by the Greenway / LRT). The Draft Plan land use strategy seeks to provide sports grounds to meet this partial need in locations accessible to the schools campuses. The submission raises the issue of a disproportionate and inequitable distribution of those uses in the context of wider community infrastructure and public open space provision. This is accepted and it is proposed to relocate the sports grounds to two other locations:
• to form part of a larger sports campus; and
• immediately adjacent to the Western Primary School as a small extension to the Park. Recommendation (i) Change zoning from “ZO 17 Sports Grounds and Facilities” to the east of Kennedy Spine and to “ZO 2 New Residential Neighbourhoods”. (ii) Change the zoning of lands due south of the “ZO 8 District Centres” zoning south of Centre Park Road to the west of the ESB site (south) from “ZO 2 New Residential Neighbourhoods” to “ZO 17 Sports Grounds and Facilities” (to provide a full size pitch due to form part of a sports campus).
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