Submission from the Office of the Planning Regulator (Submission No 426)
Issues / Recommendations / Observations
Chief Executive’s Resp onse & Recommendation
power plant; or heat recovered from industry and urban infrastructure, or energy from waste plants. In accommodating more compact and sustainable patterns of development, Cork City Council will assess the feasibility to deliver district heating across the City. Future growth areas which may be compatible to District Heating systems include, but are not restricted to, the Cork City Docklands, Tivoli Docklands and the Cork Science and Innovation Park. See further details in Chapter 11.
(v) Update paragraph 5.18 as follows:
Cork City Council will work with the Government, the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI), the Southern Regional Assembly (SRA), the Climate Action Regional Office (CARO), Energy Cork, leading specialists including our universities and our communities to implement innovations and behavioural change initiatives designed to address climate change promoting energy efficiency and renewable energy actions across the City. The OPR’s comments on the positive asp ects of the Draft Plan on flood risk are acknowledged. In relation to Recommendation 11 (i), it is considered that a finer granularity to the Justification Tests provided in Table 5 of the SFRA report can be provided, making more specific reference to the areas referred to. In relation to Recommendation 11 (ii), if a re-examination of the Draft Plan’s Land Use Zoning Objectives against the SFRA’s Flood Risk Zones in the context of the requirements of the Guidelines identifies any inappropriate instances of land use zoning that are not justified, they will be amended accordingly.
1.9. Flood Risk Management
The draft Plan includes several positive objectives related to flood risk. The flood risk zones have not been overlaid on the land use zoning maps in order to clearly outline what lands are impacted by flood risk and to assess if the sequential approach has been applied. The Justification Test in the Strategic Flood Risk Assessment (SFRA) has not been applied correctly to the land use zones proposed to accommodate vulnerable and / or highly vulnerable uses in Flood Risk Zones A and B, contrary to the requirements of section 4.23 of The Planning System and Flood Risk Management Guidelines for Planning Authorities (2009).
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