Chief Executive’s Report on Draft Plan Consultation
Volume 2 – Summary of Submissions Received
Cork City Submission No.:
Person:
Organisation:
170
Mark Falvey
Summary of Submission and Observation:
• It is submitted that social and affordable housing is required for students and there is a severe shortage of this in Cork. It is better to integrate students into communities than make them live separately. Student housing standards should be clear and strong to ensure quality of life for residents; • Active travel infrastructure requires a huge expansion to make cycling attractive and improve mode split for cyclists; • Climate justice is a principle that should also be acknowledged in the Plan. • Greater emphasis should be placed on optimising the use of existing buildings and ensuring that they are retro- fitted. • 3.40 – A social and affordable housing scheme is required for student housing and also a significant increase in social and affordable housing; • Development Standards for PBSA should be improved to ensure a high quality of life for students, as for all housing developments. • A sput to the Lee-toSea Greenway along the Curraheen Greenway would align the Innovation Corridor with the Greenways. • General infrastructure and traffic signal updates required to encourage cycling; • Update Targets in Table 4.2 for cycling to more closely affect ambition for mode split; • Re-using existing buildings and reducing dereliction need to be clearly and closely linked to Climate Action and Change as an important measure. Similarly, landhoarding in sustainable locations needs to be addressed (e.g. a focus on Vacant Sites in regeneration areas); • Climate Justice needs to be acknowledged in the Plan, as well as climate action.
Response and Recommendation to issues located in (Located under relevant chapter in the CE Report):
Volume 1, part 3 under Chapter 4 & 5
Cork City Submission No.:
Person:
Organisation:
171
Julie Forrester
Summary of Submission and Observation:
• Policy should reflect best practice and codify the hierarchy of river interventions, with culverting being unacceptable for reasons of sustainable urban drainage solutions, landscape and biodiversity. • The proposed culverting of the River Bride is not acceptable in principle and policy should ensure that this type of proposal is not permitted. • Culverts are being removed internationally in response to climate change and placemaking in urban areas and it is a retrograde step to propose one for the River Bride. • In this case wildlife and the landscape will be adversely affected by the proposals. • Update objectives relating to river corridors, flood defence and climate change to reflect best practice in flood defence, biodiversity and landscape.
Response and Recommendation to issues located in (Located under relevant chapter in the CE Report):
Volume 1, part 3 under Chapter 9
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