SEA Environmental Report for the Draft Cork City Development Plan 2022-2028
(b) Consciously considering specific people groups in the design of neighbourhoods, places, buildings, streets and spaces to meet the needs of all citizens; (c) Consciously considering specific people groups in the development of planning policy, strategies and frameworks. (d) Promoting measures that reduce concentrations of social inequality between neighbourhoods. Objective 3.3 New Housing supply Provision will be made for at least 17,118 new homes to be built in Cork over the Development Plan period. This will be achieved by: (a) Zoning sufficient lands for residential or a mix of residential and other uses to facilitate the delivery of housing; (b) Designating Transformational sites capable of delivering new homes; (c) Utilising the Cork City Capacity Study prepared as an input into this Plan to identify the development potential of sites capable of residential development; (d) Active land management utilising the provisions of the Derelict Sites Act 1990 and Urban Regeneration and Housing Act 2015; (e) Optimising the potential of brownfield sites (see Objective 3.4, below); (f) Actively encouraging the re-use of vacant space within existing buildings (especially built heritage assets and those in the City Centre) and vacant homes by utilising all instruments at Cork City Council’s disposal; (g) Ensuring that all new housing developments contribute to the creation and / or maintenance of successful neighbourhoods and are designed to the highest standards (see Chapter 11: Placemaking and Managing Development). Objective 3.4 Compact Growth Cork City Council will seek to ensure that at least 66% of all new homes will be provided within the existing footprint of Cork. Cork City Council will seek to ensure that at least 33% of all new homes will be provided within brownfield sites in Cork. Optimising the potential for housing delivery on all suitable and available brownfield sites will be achieved by: (a) Cork City Council acting as a development agency to kickstart regeneration of sites and buildings, utilising acquisition as required; (b) Progress housing and employment delivery in urban centres and strategic regeneration sites; (c) Active land management utilising the range of tools available (including the Derelict Sites Act 1990 and the Urban Regeneration and Housing Act 2015); (d) The redevelopment of surplus utility and public sector owned sites; (e) The development of small sites and the re-use of existing designated and undesignated built heritage assets on those sites; (f) The utilisation of planning and urban design tools to provide a framework for the development of sites (e.g. masterplanning, framework plans, neighbourhood strategies, historic area regeneration strategies, site specific briefs); (g) Optimising the use of land (see PO HSC3: Density of development, below); (h) Establishing ambitious and achievable build-out rates at the planning stage to help ensure that homes are built quickly and to reduce the likelihood of permissions being sought to sell land on at a higher value; (i) Influencing Government to update the legislative, guidance, fiscal and financial framework to the benefit of housing delivery on brownfield sites; (j) Combining its role as planning authority and housing authority to bring about residential development to meet demand and need; (k) Where new sustainable transport infrastructure is planned land use designations will be reviewed and updated, where appropriate to provide for housing or mixed use development (including housing); (l) Unlock the development potential of brownfield sites to be used as an evidence base and business case for intervention; and (m) Ensuring that all new housing developments contribute to the creation and / or maintenance of successful neighbourhoods. (n) Identify and promote the development potential of brownfield, small sites, regeneration areas and infrastructure packages to enable progress towards achieving compact growth targets. (o) Encourage the retrofitting and reuse of existing buildings, rather than their demolition and reconstruction Objective 3.5 Residential Density Cork City Council will seek to: (a) Promote compact urban growth by encouraging higher densities throughout Cork City according to the Cork City Density Strategy, Building Height and Tall Building Study and resultant standards set out in Chapter 11: Placemaking and Managing Development and Mapped Objectives; and (b) Ensure that urban density is achieved by development proposals providing for high quality sustainable residential development, ensure a balance between the protection of the established character of the surrounding area and existing residential amenities; (c) Ensure that urban density is closely linked to creating successful neighbourhoods (see 3-A-1, above) and ensuring that neighbourhoods are integrated and permeable to ensure short trips are possible to urban centres, local services and amenities; (d) Ensuring high-quality architectural, urban and public realm design. Guidance is set out in Chapter 11: Placemaking and Managing Development. (b) Encourage the development of an appropriate mix of dwelling types to meet target residential densities, utilising a range of dwelling types and density typologies informed by best practice (as illustrated in “Density Done Well” in the Cork City Density Strategy, Building Height and Tall Building Strategy) with combinations of houses, stacked units and apartments; (c) Within all new residential developments it will be necessary to ensure an appropriate balance of housing tenure and dwelling size to sustain balanced and inclusive communities, including a balance of family-sized units and smaller dwellings tailored to suit the location (please refer to Chapter 11: Placemaking and Managing Development for those standards); (d) Deliver at least 20% below-market priced housing across Cork City and ideally within each new residential neighbourhood; (e) Encourage the provision of housing for one and two person households in all neighbourhoods to meet the needs of all age groups, including providing for downsizing to release family housing units; Objective 3.6 Housing Mix Cork City Council will seek to: (a) Implement the provisions of the Joint Housing Strategy and HNDA as far as they relate to Cork City;
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