Submission from the Office of the Planning Regulator (Submission No 426)
Issues / Recommendations / Observations
Chief Executive’s Resp onse & Recommendation
In order to ensure the effective planning, implementation and monitoring of the development plan requirements under section 10(2)(n), the planning authority is required, in consultation with the NTA and TII, to include: • Appropriate existing baseline figures for modal share for the planning authority area and / or its constituent part. • Ambitious targets for modal change against the baseline figures provided under (i), above, to form a basis for an effective monitoring regime for the implementation of the pla nning authority’s sustainable transport strategy and climate actions.
1.7.2. Strategic National Road Network
The draft Plan is inconsistent with the Spatial Planning and National Roads Guidelines for Planning Authorities (2012) (SPNRG). It does not include objectives which seek to maintain and protect the safety, capacity and efficiency of national roads and associated junctions, avoiding the creation of new accesses and the intensification of existing accesses to national roads where a speed limit greater than 50 km/h applies. The draft Plan is not supported by the evidence-based approach required by the SPNRGs concerning the zoning and objectives proposed for a number of key sites adjacent the strategic national road network: • Strategic Employment Site 1 , Blarney Business Park Extension at a junction with the M/N20 junction; • Strategic Employment Site 4 , Lands at Glanmire at a junction with the M8; • Strategic Employment Site 5 , South Link Industrial Estate at junction with the N27;
(i) It is agreed to include an objective to protect the National Road Network. (ii) These sites are part of a suite of employment lands that are intended to support National and Regional Policy Objectives in the delivery of ambitious large-scale regeneration projects for the provision of new employment, housing and supporting infrastructure in Cork Docklands, including the relocation of logistics facilities from existing brownfield locations such as Tramore Road. It is proposed to include additional text to support enhanced public transport / active travel access modes to the sites along with text relating to future access options, where appropriate. In light of the OPR observations, a number of modifications are proposed to retain these strategic land banks which are an integral part of the delivery of compact growth and regeneration opportunities in the City and to address concerns raised by the NTA and TII. a. It is proposed to retain Strategic Employment Site 1 (lands adjoining Blarney Business Park) with updated text requiring access to be via the existing Blarney Business Park and agreed with the TII, subject to
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