SEA Environmental Report for the Draft Cork City Development Plan 2022-2028
(b) Working with employers and their representative organisations, education, training and other stakeholder organisations to ensure that Cork’s education and skills base is aligned with the needs of existing businesses, potential new businesses and new evolving sectors. (c) Support synergies between our universities and businesses to help create and foster innovation and sectors of the future. (d) Working with agencies such as SOLAS and the CETB to provide support to those who are unemployed, from communities with low education participation levels or in need of re-training/re-skilling. DM Objective 7.8 Mobility Management Plans In addition to traffic impact assessments, Cork City Council will encourage all planning applications for new employment uses, or extensions to existing commercial premises, for 100 or more employees to prepare mobility management plans which promote and prioritise the use of more sustainable transport modes. Objective 7.9 Cork Digital City (a) To work with partners in implementing the Cork City Digital Strategy and any successor strategy to help communities and businesses meet emerging digital opportunities and compete internationally where digital transformation of eco-nomic functions is gaining momentum. (b) Working with Cork Smart Gateway, Cork City Council will promote investment in the transition of Cork City and its services to a digital future. Objective 7.10 New Strategic Employment Sites To support the sustainable delivery of high quality employment facilities taking into ac-count other Development Plan objectives relating to zoning, transport and movement, urban design and placemaking, climate action, environmental management and sustainability, biodiversity, protecting cultural and built heritage and taking into account site specific objectives below: (a) Blarney Business Park Extension: To provide for a high-quality extension to Blarney Business Park using the existing access to the Park. Any proposed development needs to safeguard the M/N20 (navy) route option which traverses part of the land until such time as a preferred route is chosen and the requirement lapses if the navy route is not identified as the preferred route. (b) Clogheen Business Park Extension: To provide for a high-quality extension to the business park where care is needed to preserve the residential amenity of nearby residential priorities. (c) Land at Ballyvolane: To provide for a high-quality employment scheme that in-tegrates with wider development, specifically the Ballyvolane expansion area to the south. (d) Land at Glanmire: To provide for a high-quality employment development that will primarily service logistics or logistics related uses. No more than 30% of the zoned land shall be developed for non-logistics related employment uses. (e) Land at South Link Industrial Estate: To provide for a natural extension to the existing industrial estate where, owing to the proposed intensification of use, an alternative access strategy through the industrial estate should be properties. (f) Land at Fairhill: To provide for a high-quality light industrial development scheme that is accessed from Upper Fairhill and suitably responds to the site topography, the site's frontage onto Nash's Boreen and the need to protect residential amenity of nearby residential priorities. (g) Land at Hollyhill: To provide for a high-quality business and technology scheme capable of accommodating expansion and other strategic investment in a manner that seeks to protect the surrounding landscape setting. Objective 7.11 Cork Science and Innovation Park (a) To support the delivery of the Cork Science and Innovation Park to provide for the creation and expansion of office and laboratory-based enterprise in the areas of innovation / research and development, science, academic research and development, healthcare research and training. (b) To support expansion of MTU for education and research uses and to incorporate sports and public open space along with some infrastructure uses. (c) The development of the site should be in line with the best principles of placemaking, providing a sense of place, maximise opportunities to incorporate passive and active open space facilities. It should consider the best principles of sustainable development such as SUDS, carbon neutral development, and green campus concepts. (d) In the long-term accommodate housing to the north west of the site. Objective 7.12 Prime Office Locations The City Council will support the development of the City Centre and Docklands as the primary locations for higher order general office development in the city region. Any scale of general office is acceptable in the City Centre, while general offices over 400sqm will be acceptable in Docklands mixed use zones. Objective 7.13 Suburban General Offices (a) General offices units over 1,000 sqm will be open for consideration in suburban Business and Technology Zones, with due consideration given to the employment strategy, availability of alternative suitable sites in the City Centre and adjoining mixed use areas in Docklands, and assessment of the potential impact of the development on the City Centre. Availability of high-quality public transport will also be a factor in determining the capacity of these locations to take more intensive office development. (b) General offices will be open for consideration in District Centres provided each office unit is in excess of 1,000 sqm and the total area of offices is appropriate to the scale of the individual centre, subject to a general maximum of 20,000 sqm of offices in any one centre. Objective 7.14 Technology and Office-based Industry To support the development of high technology businesses in the Commercial Core Area of the City Centre, Docklands and Business and Technology Zones. Objective 7.15 Light Industry To protect areas zoned for light industry for such uses in order to maintain an adequate supply of light industrial space and employment in order to help ensure a di-verse range of employment opportunities in the city. Objective 7.16 Decanting of Industrial Uses from Regeneration Areas To support and facilitate the decanting of industrial uses from the Cork Docklands (City Docks and Tivoli Docks) to more suitable zoned strategic employment locations. This includes supporting occupiers in existing industrial areas that are under regeneration influence close to the City Centre, such as Tramore Road, in relocating to more suitable and flexible locations elsewhere in Cork City.
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