SEA Environmental Report for the Draft Cork City Development Plan 2022-2028
Objective 7.17 Commercial Leisure Encourage a broad range of commercial leisure activities in key locations and in suitable locations throughout the city. Objective 7.18 Home Based Economic Activities To permit home based economic activities where, by virtue of their nature and scale, they can be accommodated without detriment to the amenities of residential areas. Objective 7.19 Live Work Units To promote and encourage the development of ‘Live work’ units capable of accommodating home based economic activities in areas around the City Centre/Docklands and other sustainable development locations such as in or close to Town/District/Neighbourhood/Local Centres. Objective 7.20 Maritime Economy To support the Maritime Economy of Cork City and the wider region by: (a) Supporting the migration of Port activities from Tivoli and Docklands to Cork Har-bour. (b) Facilitating research and development, innovation and professional services that support the maritime economy. Objective 7.21 A Sustainable Rural Economy To work with stakeholder organisations and representative groups and rural communities to promote and facilitate appropriate sustainable economic development, job creation and support services in our rural hinterland. This includes supporting the implementation of the Government’s strategy; ‘Our Rural Future: Government’s blueprint to transform rural Ireland’ (March 2021). Objective 7.22 Diversification of the Rural Economy To facilitate a more dynamic rural economy by supporting innovation and diversification in areas including, but not limited to, renewable energy generation at appropriate locations and scales, sustainable tourism, the bioeconomy, circular economy, social enterprise, craft industries and sustainable food generation. Objective 7.23 Creative Arts To support the growth and expansion of the creative industries and the arts in Cork City that includes encouraging the delivery of new workspaces as part of mixed-use developments and supporting the potential for workspaces. Objective 7.24 Sustainable Tourism To support the sustainable growth of tourism and marketing of Cork City as a multi-faceted visitor destination and a gateway to the southern region, Wild Atlantic Way and Ireland’s Ancient East by: • Working in partnership with Fáilte Ireland, businesses and other stakeholders to support tourism investment, innovation and promotional and marketing strategies. • Supporting the implementation of the Cork City Tourism Strategy 2017-2022, the Local Economic and Community Plan-2016-2021 (Pure Cork) and their successor strategies. • To support the implementation of the Tourism Destination Plan for Cork City and East Cork. • Develop existing tourist attractions and activities, while seeking investment in new attractions that help to diversify the tourism market. • Support the development of cultural facilities such as the Crawford Art Gallery and the Cork Events Centre. • Support initiatives that improve the sustainability of tourism, and support eco-tourism along with the reduction of the carbon footprint of tourist accommodation, attractions and activities. • Support high quality proposals, initiatives and pilot projects that represent opportunities to provide new or enhanced visitor facilities and attractions. This also extends to proposals that utilise technology to improve visitors’ experiences and aid interpretation and navigation and seek to better leverage the City’s network of green and blue infrastructure as tourism attractions. • Seeking to manage, where appropriate, any increase in visitor numbers to semi-natural areas in order to avoid significant effects including loss of habitat and disturbance, by ensuring that new any projects, such as greenways, are located a suitable distance from ecological sensitivities, such as riparian zones. • Seeking to manage, where relevant, any increase in visitor numbers to key habitats and / or any change in visitor behaviour in order to avoid significant effects, including loss of habitat and disturbance, by ensuring that new projects and activities are located a suitable distance from ecological sensitivities. Visitor / Habitat Management Plans may be required for proposed projects where relevant and as appropriate. Objective 7.25 Visitor Accommodation (a) To encourage a mix of tourist accommodation including hotels, hostels, Bed and Breakfast, and Guesthouses to cater for a broad tourist market. (b) To encourage the development of a range of new and enhanced visitor accommodation options in Cork City. This includes working with stakeholders to explore opportunities to provide motorhome parking facilities for short-term stays. Objective 7.26 Strategic Retail Objectives (a) To support and implement the Cork Metropolitan Area Joint Retail Study and Strategy 2021 upon completion and the Retail Hierarchy in defining the role of retail centres, in preparing plans and in assessing development proposals for retail development. (b) To maintain and strengthen the role of Cork City Centre as the primary retail centre in the Cork Metropolitan Area. (c) To ensure the resilience of Cork City Centre to changing trends in retail de-mand. Appropriate opportunities to further diversify the City Centre as a place to live, work and socialise will be encouraged. (d) To promote the vitality and viability of District Centres, Urban Town Centres and Neighbourhood/Local Centres and support their development as multifunctional centres which provide a variety of uses that meet the needs of the com-munities they serve. Objective 7.27 City Centre To protect and enhance the role of Cork City Centre as the primary retail centre in the Cork Metropolitan Area and the region by facilitating the continued regeneration and modernisation of existing building stock and supporting appropriate new development, coupled with a range of complimentary residential, leisure, recreational and cultural uses and investment in the public realm.
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