[ Cork City Development Plan 2022-2028, Section 15(2) Two-Year Progress Report ]
STRATEGIC OBJECTIVE
DEVELOPMENT OBJECTIVES
OBJECTIVE DESCRIPTION
Obj 2.4: Cork Metropolitan Area Strategic Plan
To develop Cork City in a manner that strengthens the role of the Cork Metropolitan Area as an international location of scale and a primary driver of economic and population growth in the Southern Region. To identify and seek investment packages into the Cork Metropolitan Area from European and Government Exchequer funding streams that help deliver population and job targets, prioritise infrastructure led investment and quality of place.
Obj 2.7: Regional Investment Obj 2.9: Long Term Planning
To support a longer-term strategic planning approach to help safeguard strategically important lands necessary to deliver future compact growth in Cork City in line with the NPF 2040.
To support the delivery of a 15-Minute City that supports Compact Liveable Growth by creating vibrant local communities that can access all necessary amenities within a 10-minute walk/cycle and access workplaces and other neighbourhoods with a 15-minute public transport journey. Implementation will include walkable neighbourhoods, towns and communities with mix of uses, house types and tenure that foster a diverse, resilient, socially inclusive and responsive city. This includes support for public and active travel infrastructure projects and services and enhanced neighbourhood permeability. Strategic infrastructure and large-scale developments shall demonstrate how they contribute to a 15-minute city and enhance Cork City’s liveability and accessibility. In line with emerging policy on Urban Development Zones (UDZs), as set out in the Government’s (2021) Housing for all A New Housing Plan, Cork City Council will consider the application of UDZ designation for strategically important and large-scale areas of growth identified in the Core Strategy. Reflecting the Housing for All Plan, these UDZs will focus on the following: a. Design and delivery focused planning b. Addressing infrastructural constraints in a sustainable manner c. Delivering Transport Orientated Development d. Integrating development potential within the context of an existing or merging neighbourhood or city area. e. Planning and delivery of physical and community infrastructure f. Delivery of Compact Liveable Growth, in accordance with this Plan’s objectives. To co-ordinate and enable active land management with the delivery of key infrastructure and regeneration projects, Cork City Council will prepare a framework plan for the existing and emerging built environment in and around the central city area. The plan will seek to co-ordinate the delivery of compact liveable growth by facilitating the planning and design of the following land use related issues: a. Active land management of strategic underutilised sites; b. Inter connections between the City Centre, City Docks and Tivoli Docks; c. Enable high levels of mobility connecting BusConnects Cork, the proposed LRT route and the emerging Lee to Sea Greenway; d. Land use planning around planned transport interchanges; e. Built Heritage and Conservation, including maritime heritage; f. GBI implementation, Natural Heritage, and Biodiversity management; g. Co-ordinating Placemaking objectives at a local level; h. River Transport and Mobility (including water-based transport and recreation); i. River use management to balance demand and potentially conflicting interests. Cork City Council, together with the LDA and relevant stakeholders, such as the Land Development Agency (LDA), will support and enable the development and renewal and regeneration of suitable state-owned lands as potential key deliverables to achieve NPF growth targets. Cork City Council will seek to address issues of dereliction, vacancy and underutilisation of sites within Cork City by encouraging and facilitating their re-use and regeneration subject to good planning and the infrastructural carrying capacities of the area. Strategic brownfield sites with existing active uses will be treated as windfall sites. The redevelopment of these sites, if or when they become available, will require careful consideration. For such sites, Cork City Council will require agreement on a detailed framework plan at an early stage to ensure best practice regeneration and design based on the character and nature of their existing urban environments. Encourage by way of the vacant site levy, the development of vacant sites for housing and regeneration purposes through active implementation of the provisions of the Urban Regeneration and Housing Act 2015 (as amended). Progress, by way of the Derelict Sites Register, the development of derelict sites for housing and regeneration purposes through consultation with landowners and the application of powers under the Derelict Sites Act 1990 (as amended) and other means available to Cork City Council.
Obj 2.10: The 15-Minute City
Obj 2.19: Urban Area-Based Planning
Obj 2.20: Central City Area Framework Plan
Obj 2.22: Delivery of Relevant State Land
Obj 2.24: Underutilised Sites
Obj 2.25: Windfall Sites
Obj 2.26: Vacant Site Levy
Obj 2.27: Derelicts Site Register
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