[ Cork City Development Plan 2022-2028, Section 15(2) Two-Year Progress Report ]
Target 11.4 Strengthen efforts to protect and safeguard the world’s cultural and natural heritage. Target 11.6 By 2030, reduce the adverse per capita environmental impact of cities, including by paying special attention to air quality and municipal and other waste management. Target 11.7 By 2030, provide universal access to safe, inclusive and accessible, green and public spaces, in particular for women and children, older persons and persons with disabilities. Target 11.a Support positive economic, social and environmental links between urban, peri-urban and rural areas by strengthening national and regional development planning. Target 11.b By 2020, substantially increase the number of cities and human settlements adopting and implementing integrated policies and plans towards inclusion, resource efficiency, mitigation and adaptation to climate change, resilience to disasters, and develop and implement, in line with the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015–2030, holistic disaster risk management at all levels. This is the most relevant SDG to the City Development Plan. The City Development Plan is the primary spatial planning tool and sustainable development blueprint for Cork City Council. It allocates sufficient lands for housing and other purposes across the city’s jurisdiction in line with Government growth projections and national and regional policy ambitions. It sets an overarching policy framework for compact growth, sustainable development and consideration of environmental matters including flood risk assessment and climate adaptation considerations. The City Development Plan supports a range of actions under the Government’s “Housing for All | A New Housing Plan for Ireland”. These include supporting the delivery of social housing via mechanisms like land-use zoning and the Joint Housing Strategy and Housing Need and Demand Assessment (HNDA), accommodating housing for specialist and vulnerable groups, active land management that addresses dereliction and vacancy, regeneration including unlocking the potential of heritage building stock and retrofitting. The Plan also seeks the provision of safe, inclusive and accessible green spaces for all. As a set out under SDG 9, Cork City and the wider metropolitan area will be subject to €3.5 billion investment in transport infrastructure, including public transport and active travel infrastructure, as set out in the Cork Metropolitan Area Transport Strategy (CMATS) (Objective 4.1). In addition, a substantial proportion of the works associated with the Cork City Centre Movement Strategy have been implemented following the completion of the works on MacCurtain Street and City Quays in 2023 (Objective 4.2). While the whole City Development Plan relates to Target 11.3 and sustainable urbanisation, in particular the Core Strategy set out in chapter 2 and Objective 3.4 address compact growth and require at least two-thirds of all new homes to be provided within the existing footprint of the city. The Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (the Department) published the “Sustainable Residential Development and Compact Settlements Guidelines for Planning Authorities” on 12th January 2024. Following publication of these guidelines, which represent good international practice in sustainable housing, Cork City Council conducted a review of the Cork City Development
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