Submission from the Office of the Planning Regulator (Submission No 426)
Issues / Recommendations / Observations
Chief Executive’s Resp onse & Recommendation
Development Plan (OREDP II) will also be prepared, to quantify the offshore renewable en ergy potential in Ireland’s maritime area, and an evidence base for the assessment of areas suitable for deployment of offshore renewable energy. The City Council will support and feed into this process. It will also work with Cork County Council to support and facilitate off-shore windfarms.
(iii) Amend Objective 9.14 Renewable Energy as follows:
To promote the increased use of renewable energy resources in Cork City such as solar, small or microscale wind, geothermal, heat pumps and district heating. To engage with the proposed revision of the SEAI’s Methodology for Local Authority Renewable Energy Strategies (LARES), to provide a best practice approach to identifying and assessing renewable energy resources in spatial planning at local authority level. Following this process a LARES for the City with specific targets on renewable energy will be prepared. To encourage small-scale wind energy developments and support small community-based proposals provided they do not negatively impact upon the environmental quality or amenity of the area.
(iv) Update text in paragraph 5.34 as follows:
In accommodating more compact and sustainable patterns of development, Cork City Council will assess the feasibility to deliver district heating, particularly in Cork City Docklands, Tivoli Docklands and the Cork Science and Innovation Park. District heating is a distribution network of insulated pipes that carry heat from a central source and delivers it to a number of buildings within the network. The heat source can vary and could include a facility that provides a dedicated supply to the heat network, such as a combined heat and
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