SEA Environmental Report for the Draft Cork City Development Plan 2022-2028
Objective 10.11 City Centre Transport, Mobility and Accessibility To ensure the City Centre is easily accessible and easy to get around by promoting sustainable modes of transport through the implementation of the Cork Metropolitan Area Transport Study (CMATS) and the City Centre Movement Strategy (CCMS). This will prioritise safe and secure walking and cycling routes and promote the use of public transport. Objective 10.12 City Centre Public Realm (a) To enhance and properly maintain the public realm and improve the pedestrian experience for all the city’s users including children, families, the elderly and the disabled. (b) To improve wayfinding for pedestrians, both residents and visitors, over the period of this Plan. This will interpret key areas of interest and support behavioural change by illustrating walking times to key areas of Cork City. (c) To improve upon the existing provision of areas of amenity and public open space that are safe, secure and well located and increase tree canopy cover. (d) To enhance Waterfront Amenity Areas by providing accessible spaces for pedestrians and cyclists. Setbacks from the quayside should generally be considered as part of new development proposals in quayside locations. Objective 10.13 City Centre Maritime Heritage To reinforce, celebrate, and protect the City’s maritime heritage and improve its connection to the river. Objective 10.14 City Centre Grand Parade Quarter To support the redevelopment of The Grand Parade Quarter, from the Grand Parade to the former Beamish and Crawford site, to transform and bring new life to the western end of the City Centre, that strengthens the culture and entertainment offer of the City. Objective 10.15 City Centre Culture and Arts To support the expansion of the cultural and artistic offering of Cork City Centre, including the development of a creative hub in the City Centre. Objective 10.16 City Centre Heritage and Biodiversity To strengthen and support the heritage and biodiversity of Cork City Centre. City Docks Objective 10.17: Masterplanning Cork City Council will seek to prepare masterplans during the lifetime of this Plan for the following: • A North Docks Masterplan to provide a framework for development and public realm; • Masterplans for the South Docks to reconcile strategic design issues and Character Area Masterplans to provide more detailed guidance for development and public realm. Objective 10.18 City Docks exemplar It is an objective of Cork City Council to promote the development of the City Docks as an exemplar new urban neighbourhood, regeneration project, waterfront development, climate resilient development, green mode split community, lifetime design and design quality. During the lifetime of the Plan Cork City Council will investigate the potential for a design review process to ensure excellence in design and will develop a City Docks Architectural Policy. Objective 10.19 City Docks A Place for People It is an objective of Cork City Council to ensure that the City Docks is developed as a place for people by ensuring that placemaking is at the heart of all development proposals and that the needs of people of all ages, abilities and backgrounds are considered in development proposals. Objective 10.20 The River Lee (a) To ensure that the River Lee is maintained as a defining feature of the City Docks. (b) To secure access to the riverside and provide walkway / cycleways (see Volume 2: Mapped Objectives). (c) To update the Public Realm Strategy for the City Docks to take into account the evolving masterplan for the City Docks (north and south). (d) Measures will be put in place to enhance the River Lee’s biodiversity value. (e) To provide new active recreational infrastructure to improve access to the river, and to repair and enhance steps and slipways. Objective 10.21 City Docks Character Areas It is an objective of Cork City Council to ensure that the City Docks is developed in a way that reinforces the identity and urban design, placemaking and architectural qualities of the eight character areas in Figure 10.xx as distinct urban quarters: Objective 10.22A City Docks Built Heritage It is an objective of Cork City Council to • Conserve and enhance designated and, where possible, undesignated built heritage assets of the City Docks in accordance with the policies set out in Chapter 8: Heritage Culture and Arts and Chapter 11: Placemaking and Managing Development; • Utilise conservation strategies to ensure that built heritage assets are integrated into the urban design, architecture and public realm strategies for developments; • Require inventories for each development proposal to ensure that undesignated heritage assets are recorded, understood and conserved, where possible. Objective 10.22B: Development of the Odlums buildings It is an objective of Cork City Council to • Retain the 1890-1930s built fabric at the eastern side of the block to be the cornerpiece of a newly-regenerated block to have a civic and / or publicly-accessible use with a socio-civic significance that creates a destination within the city and / or a focal point within the City Docks. The block development strategy should make a positive contribution to both the Warehouse Quarter and the Ford-Dunlop Quarter that it addresses. Appropriate uses could include cultural, educational or community uses; • Ensure that key design challenges are resolved in the development of proposals, including the need for a quantum of floorspace that balances development feasibility and built heritage value, flood resilience, flood defences on Kennedy Quay, proposals for a new Kent Station Bridge, the need for an appropriate lighting strategy to ensure that the building provides a visual focal point after dark, creating a strong relationship with Kennedy Quay and a range of other factors;
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