Chief Executive’s Report on Draft Plan Consultation
Volume 2 – Summary of Submissions Received
Cork City Submission No.:
Person:
Organisation:
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Cork Trauma Sensitive Cities Steering Group
Summary of Submission and Observation:
• A trauma sensitive city would support aims of reducing inequality and making Cork a health city, a city that learns, a caring and compassionate city. • Community environments shape the child’s future well -being, development, educational engagement and health. All people thrive when they feel safe, have high quality relationships and environments, access to opportunity and are able to participate and feel heard.
Plan objectives should:
• ensure development commit to addressing health, resilience, safety and security outcomes for all citizens of Cork City, and • weave in Trauma Informed Practise Principles with primary need to feel secure and safe.
Specific requested edits highlighted below:
Ch.1 Introduction
1.5 Strategic Vision, p.9
• The Strategic Vision is for Cork City to take its place as a world class city, driving local and regional growth, embracing diversity and inclusiveness and growing as a resilient, healthy, trauma responsive, age-friendly and sustainable compact city with placemaking, communities and quality of life at its heart. This strategic vision is based on the following key strategic principles:
A city of neighbourhoods and communities
• Develop a sustainable, liveable city of neighbourhoods and communities that is resilient and responsive to the needs of all of its citizens, based on the 15-minute city concept, ensuring that placemaking and safety is at the heart of all development.
Ch.2 Core Strategy
SO1 Compact Liveable Growth, p.61
• To increase the population of Cork City in line with national and regional growth targets. To develop Cork City as an international compact, sustainable city of scale that promotes health and trauma responsiveness enabling to be a regional driver of growth by creating sustainable, liveable, integrated communities and neighbourhoods for all. To plan to deliver at least half (50%) of all new homes in the existing built-up footprint of the City. …
Objective 2.8 The 15-Minute City, p.63
• To support the delivery of a 15-Minute City delivering Compact Liveable Growth through walkable neighbourhoods, towns and communities with a mix of uses, house types and tenures that foster a diverse, resilient, healthy, socially inclusive and responsive city. Strategic infrastructure and large-scale developments shall demonstrate how they contribute to a 15- minute city and enhance Cork City’s liveability.
Objective 2.12 Walkable Neighbourhoods, p.63
New development shall be designed to make positive additions to their neighbourhoods, towns and communities by:
• Delivering the right mix of uses at a scale and design that creates high quality buildings and spaces. • Creating attractive, safe and vibrant places designed at a human scale (i.e. places that relate to people, streetscapes and local character). • Ensuring a child friendly and age friendly environment (adopting Universal Design principles) with a mix of household types. • Designing a safe and welcoming place that is responsive and inclusive which enables access for all.
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