Chief Executive’s Report on Draft Plan Consultation
Volume 2 – Summary of Submissions Received
Cork City Submission No.:
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University College Cork
Summary of Submission and Observation:
University College Cork (UCC) request that the Cork City Development Plan 2022 – 2028:
1. Amend Objective 3.24 ‘Third - Level Education & Further Education’ to provide explicit support in principle for the implementation of UCC’s Masterplan Review 2021 which provides a framework for the development of the physical environment of the campus that will support the learning, research, and academic ambitions of the university. 2. Consider whether it would be more appropriate to zone UCC’s main campus area as ‘Institutions and Community’, to reflect the role of UCC and strengthen the policy context to provide for its expansion. UCC welcome the flexibility to permit educational uses within other appropriately zoned lands.
3. In the context of Table 2.5 of the Core Strategy expand on the Objectives for City Growth ‘City Centre Area’ to include the identification of the Business Education Quarter as a key site.
4. Amend objective 2.23 ‘Quality of Life’ to include reference to third level education opportunities as a factor that contributes to quality of life in Cork.
5. Amend section 3.40 of the draft to remove the reference to the development of a scheme to apply Part V requirements to student housing developments and amend section 3.26 to highlight the need to provide affordable rental housing to address rising student accommodation cost.
6. Amend elements of Chapter 4, Transport and Mobility to support objectives for promoting public transport and active travel modes.
7. Develop an implementation strategy for the delivery of the CMATS targets and modal shift to public transport and active travel modes. As part of the implementation strategy a stakeholder consultation group should be established to develop concepts and share experiences in promoting a transport modal shift. UCC would welcome the opportunity to be an active member of a stakeholder consultation group. An additional objective should be provided in Chapter 4 focused on implementation and consultation with stakeholders. 8. Revise the Density and Building Heights Strategy to include UCC’s Campus area from College Road to Western Road and the North Mall Campus lands within the ‘Primary urban Corridor’ category. The categorisation of these lands as ‘Inner Urban Suburban’ is inappropriate given the s cale of existing institutional buildings in this area and the future development capacity to delivery compact growth. 9. Amend Objective 7.10 ‘New Strategic Employment Sites’ to designate the North Mall Campus as a Strategic Employment Site, suitable for the development of higher education, health, and research, employment opportunities. 10. Include in chapter 7, under the heading ‘Support Innovation, Research and Development – An Innovation City’, additional text to support the development of the North Mall Campus for Health, Higher Education and Research uses, as part of a joint development between the University College Cork and Mercy University Hospital, in line with an agreed masterplan.
11. Define a specific objective to promote and deliver enhanced Sports facilities, participation and promotion.
12. Amend Objective 7.11a to reference support for the relocation of UCC’s existing sporting facilities at Curraheen.
13. Amend Objective 8.11 ‘Strategic Arts and Cultural Objective’ to recognise the role of third level education institutions in the development and support of Arts and Culture in Cork.
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