CE Report on the Draft Plan Consultation Volume 1

Section 6

North Eastern Suburbs & Hinterland

Specific Zoning Request

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Map No. Chief Executive’s Response & Recommendation

Neighbourhoods” to “ZO 9 Neighbourhood and Local Centres”.

shops; community facilities; cultural facilities; hotels and hostels; live-work units; service stations (petrol filling stations); local medical services; third level education institutes; community based enterprise or social enterprises, health facilities including hospitals”. As this zoning specifically facilitates petrol filling stations, it is considered that it is sufficiently flexible to facilitate the future development of the service station. Recommendation: No change. These lands are zoned “ZO 21 City Hinterland” in the Draft Plan. The site is also located in an area identified as “Prominent and Strategic Metropolitan Greenbelt” in Figure 6.5 of the Draft Plan. These lands are located in the rural area between Ballyvolane / Mayfield and Glanmire. There is no sufficient justification to encroach into this rural area – placemaking is an important cornerstone of the Draft Plan, and it is considered important to ensure that Glanmire and Ballyvolane / Mayfield retain their respective characters, which this proposal could erode by serving to merge these two areas. Recommendation: No change. These lands are currently zoned “ZO 3 Inner City Residential Neighbourhoods” in the current 2015 Cork City Development Plan and is proposed to be zoned “ZO 1 Sustainable Residential Neighbourhoods”. Draft Plan zoning objective “ZO 15 Public Infrastructure and Utilities” is to provide for major or significant public infrastructure and utilities. It is not feasible or viable to safeguard every piece of

Proposed rezoning of lands fronting Ballyhooly Road from “ZO 21 City Hinterland” to “ZO 14 Institutions and Community”.

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Water Attenuation Tank site and access at the Entrance to Ard na Laoi should be zoned as "ZO 15 Public Infrastructure and Facilities".

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