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City Centre &Cork Docklands
Specific Zoning Request
Sub. No.
Map No. Chief Executive’s Response & Recommendation
(iii) Provide Multi-Use Games Areas (ball courts) adjacent to the Park, to the south of the western “ZO 13 Education ” -zoned site.
Relocation of “Kennedy Spine” “ZO 16 Public Open Space” zoning further west and retain previous width of spine.
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The change in the land use strategy between the current Cork City Development Plan 2015 and the Draft Plan has been introduced for a number of reasons, including:
• Creating a civic space of importance to the City Docks.
• Creating a coherent landscape / public open space extending from Victoria Road / Kennedy Park to the waterfront space and its backdrop the Saint Luke’s / Montenotte Ridge. • Providing an urban structure that is based around a park with a strong vista to Saint Luke’s Church and a strong visual connection to the River Lee corridor. • Grouping two public open spaces proposed in the current City Development Plan 2015 into one coherent and more successful public space. • Enabling a space that would benefit from good levels of sunlight. The submission has requested that consideration be given to moving the POS further westwards on the grounds that this would improve development feasibility of adjacent lands. It is considered that the spine between Centre Park Road and the River Lee can be adjusted westwards to assist in creating a more developable land holding configuration on adjacent lands. The other three sections of the spine will also be adjusted to reflect this alignment.
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