Submission from the Southern Regional Assembly (Submission No 400)
Issues / Recommendations / Observations
Chief Executive’s Response & Recommendation
and the wider metropolitan area as a positive affirmation of the City’s role as a national and regional driver of growth.
Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media has not given any such designation for Cork City. A language plan for Cork City is being prepared. The Development Plan has no direct remit in terms of language plans. However, the Irish language forms a significant role in our cultural identity and there are potential economic and social benefits to a language plan. Consequently, it is recommended that supportive text will be included in Chapter 3 Delivering Homes and Communities under the heading ‘A Diverse and Inclusive City’. In relation to 1(d), this error will be corrected. Recommendation: (i) Add the following objective to Chapter 2, Core Strategy: Objective 2.x (Cork City role as a Primary National and Regional Driver) To support the deliver compact liveable growth in Cork City that enables the City to increase its role as a primary national and regional driver and increase the achievement of regional parity in accordance with NPO 1a of
Recommendation 1: Strengthen support to the role of the Cork Metropolitan Area as a primary driver of growth Interacting with the region 1a: The SRA consider a strengthening under Chapter 2 Core Strategy in support of Cork to deliver significant growth as a primary driver in achieving the goal of regional parity would greater signal the ambition for Cork to achieving NPO 1a of the NPF (regional parity growth) and RSES RPO 6 collaboration between metropolitan areas. This ambition will also support the stated need for significant levels of capital investment for physical and social infrastructure to achieve population growth targets and delivery of the key enablers for Cork as identified in the NPF, Section 4.0 of the MASP and carried forward into the City Development Plan. 1b : In supporting the national and regional role of Cork City and setting the context of the Core Strategy for the region, strengthened support for collaboration and interaction with other regional drivers of growth, enabled through objectives of the Development Plan for improved transport and digital connectivity, is supported by the SRA to align with Cork MASP Objective 4 Cork Metropolitan Area Regional Interactions. This includes support for interactions between the Cork Metropolitan Area and metropolitan areas of Galway, Limerick-Shannon and Waterford (in pursuit of regional parity), with key towns of the Southern Region, the Atlantic Economic Corridor, interactions as a strategic urban node on the EU TEN-T Corridor and with town networks (as identified under Section 3.8 of the RSES).
the NPF and RPO 6 of the RSES for the Southern Region. (ii) Add the following objective to Chapter 2, Core Strategy: Objective 2.x (Regional Collaboration)
To support regional interaction and collaboration, including improved transport and digital connectivity, in accordance with Cork MASP Objective 4 of the RSES for the Southern Region. (iii) Include new paragraph of text after paragraph 3.15 in Chapter 3 under ‘A Diverse and Inclusive City’: Cork City is being considered as a possible Gaeltacht Service Town. An Irish Language Plan is being produced as part of that process. Cork City Council support such a Language Plan and ‘Gaeltacht Service City’
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