Chief Executive’s Report on Draft Plan Consultation
Volume 2 – Summary of Submissions Received
• Creating a healthy safe neighbourhood with direct access to high quality parks and public spaces, schools, shops, libraries and local services. • Being well-connected with easy access to public transport and active travel. • Providing enhanced permeability for walking and cycling
Chapter 3 Delivering Homes & Sustainable Neighbourhoods
Strategic Objective 2 Delivering Homes & Sustainable Neighbourhoods, p.91
• To increase the population of Cork City in line with the Core Strategy. To deliver sustainable, liveable, integrated, safe, responsive, healthy and child-friendly communities and neighbourhoods. To ensure that new homes are provided at appropriate densities in brownfield, infill and greenfield locations within and contiguous to existing City footprint identified in the Core Strategy, and aligned with transport, community and social infrastructure. To ensure that new homes are provided with a good mix of accommodation types and sizes to meet the needs and abilities of all members of society. • To achieve a higher quality of life for Cork City’s communities, promoting healthy living, wellbeing and active lifestyles. To ensure that placemaking is at the heart of all development to create attractive, liveable, well- designed, child-friendly, playful, and healthy, safe, secure and welcoming, high-quality urban places. To promote the concept of a 15-minute city focused on inclusive, diverse, healthy and integrated neighbourhoods served by a range of homes, amenities, services, jobs and active and public transport alternatives. Proposals for new development will demonstrate how placemaking is at the heart of the development and how the development will contribute to the local neighbourhood.
Response and Recommendation to issues located in (Located under relevant chapter in the CE Report):
Volume 1 part 3 under Chapter 1, 2 & 3
Cork City Submission No.:
Person:
Organisation:
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Circle K Ireland Energy Group Ltd
Summary of Submission and Observation: • Long Term Regeneration zoning fails to reflect current and permitted commercial uses, risks restricting ongoing use and future development potential. • Rezone service station land from ZO4 Long Term Strategic Regeneration zoning to ZO 7 Urban Town Centre zoning.
Response and Recommendation to issues located in (Located under relevant chapter in the CE Report):
Volume 1 part 4 Land Use Zoning and Mapping
Cork City Submission No.:
Person:
Organisation:
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Uni College Cork and Mercy Uni Hospital
Summary of Submission and Observation:
• North Mall Campus should be zoned and supported as a Strategic Employment Site with specific criteria added to Key Employment Types to support health, education and innovation. • Designate North Mall campus a Strategic Employment Site, suitable for development of further education, health, and research employment opportunities. • Include specific category related to Health, Education, and Innovation within section on Key Employment Types within Ch.7. • Include the following text in bold within chapter 7 under ‘Support, Innovation, Research and Development – An Innovation City’: • To support the development of the North Mall Campus for Health, Education and Innovation uses, as part of a joint development between University College Cork and Mercy University Hospital, in line with an agreed masterplan. The North Mall campus is a key site with growth potential… • Include North Mall Campus as part of the emerging Innovation Corridor within Objective 7.3(c).
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