CE Report on the Draft Plan Consultation Volume 1

Submission from the Southern Regional Assembly (Submission No 400)

Planning authorities have a statutory obligation to ensure that its development plan is consistent with the relevant regional spatial and economic strategy. The Southern Regional Assembly (SRA) has a statutory role in making submissions and observations on draft development plans stating whether the draft development plan and its core strategy are consistent with the regional spatial and economic strategy.

The submission by the SRA is framed around a number of themes and structured to provide observations followed by recommendations for each theme.

The SRA submission includes 12 recommendations .

Recommendation 1: Strengthen Support to the Role of the Cork Metropolitan Area as a Primary Driver of Growth Interacting with the Region

Recommendation 2: Strengthened Land Use and Transport Planning Led Justification for the Distribution of Growth to Key Growth Areas

Recommendation 3: Support for Coordination with the Land Development Agency

Recommendation 4: Integrated Land Use and Transport Planning for Designating Strategic Employment Locations

Recommendation 5: Strengthen Transport and Mobility Objectives

Recommendation 6: Specific Objective to Support Projects Delivering 15 Minute City Neighbourhoods.

Recommendation 7: Cork as a Smart City Driving a Smart Region

Recommendation 8: Cork Harbour Planning Framework Initiative

Recommendation 9: Metropolitan Cork Open Space, Recreation and Greenbelt Strategy

Recommendation 10: Cork Metropolitan Area Joint Retail Study

Recommendation 11: A Learning Region and Innovation Corridors

Recommendation 12: Collaborative Approaches for MASP Implementation

The planning authority is required to provide a summary of the recommendations and observations made by the SRA in this report.

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