SEA Environmental Report for the Draft Cork City Development Plan 2022-2028
• Conserve and enhance the Odlums Buildings in accordance with the policies set out in Chapter 8: Heritage Culture and Arts and Chapter 11: Placemaking and Managing Development; Objective 10.23 Integration into its surroundings It is an objective of Cork City Council to ensure that the City Docks is integrated into its surroundings by: • Provision of connections across the river to integrate the North Docks (including Kent Station) and South Docks, and the City Docks with Tivoli Docks and the wider Metrpopolitan Area (see Indicative Bridge Locations in Volume 2); • Provision of adequate capacity for pedestrian / cycle movement between the City Docks and the City Centre; • Provision of Pedestrian/Cycle Streets between Monahan’s Road and Blackrock Road (see Area-Based Transport Assessment, below, and Volume 2: Mapped Objectives). Objective 10.24 City Docks A Climate resilient development It is an objective of Cork City Council to ensure that the City Docks is developed as a climate resilient neighbourhood by: • Ensuring that the South Docks Drainage Strategy is implemented, including the use of Sustainable Urban Drainage Scheme (SUDS) measures and a tidal / fluvial flood defence. • Ensuring that the City Docks Area-Based Transport Study objectives are implemented, including the achievement of highly ambitious mode split targets. • Exploring measures to ensure that buildings are designed to the highest standard. • Ensuring a mix of land uses and multi-purpose community infrastructure to reduce the need to travel. Objective 10.25 Marina Park To support the provision of Marina Park. • Live ground floor uses are provided in appropriate locations and restricted in all other areas to ensure a good quality of residential amenity in the new residential neighbourhood. Objective 10.27 Dwelling Size Mix (a) To ensure that the City Docks is developed to accommodate a variety of dwelling sizes to support the development of a balanced neighbourhood. (b) Purpose-Built Student Accommodation should support the creation of a balanced community and sustainable neighbourhood and the student population should not exceed 10% of the overall target population for City Docks. Objective 10.28: Balanced community and Social and Affordable housing Objective 10.26: Specific land use objectives It is an objective of Cork City Council to ensure that: • The western neighbourhood / local centre is centred upon the western City Docks LRT stop. Cork City Council will seek to provide at least 20% of homes in the City Docks as below-market priced housing in the form of Social and Affordable housing products, in accordance with the Joint Housing Strategy. Cork City Council will utilise Part V of the Planning and Development Act 2000 (as amended) and will work with its partners to utilise available measures and opportunities to provide below-market priced housing products. Objective 10.29 City Docks Community Infrastructure and a Community Hub • Cork City Council will support the development of community facilities to meet the needs of the City Docks, including a Community Hub facility in the City Docks to meet the needs of the neighbourhood. • During the lifetime of this Development Plan Cork City Council will seek to prepare a Community Hub Feasibility Study to inform the development of a project for delivery. Objective 10.30 Active Recreational Infrastructure It is an objective of Cork City Council to ensure that the City Docks provides for the active recreational needs of the living and working community. To develop an ARI Strategy for the City Docks that ensures that active recreational need is met whilst optimising use of all assets for public usage in accessible locations, and to prepare feasibility studies for necessary infrastructure (e.g. swimming pools / leisure centre, sports halls and sports hubs). To undertake land acquisition, design and delivery of active recreational infrastructure within the City Docks to provide for the needs of the community. To update the Docks Public Realm Masterplan with a view to integrate small-scale active recreational provision into the public realm to optimise the value of streets and spaces. To encourage water-based leisure activities and land site facilities such as rowing, light craft and swimming. To require developments to make provision for on-site ARI commensurate to the scale of the proposed development. Objective 10.31 Draft Cork City Docks Area-Based Transport Assessment (ABTA) It is an objective for Cork City Council to implement the Draft City Docks ABTA and its key recommendations, including: • Achieving a 75:25 modal split in favour of sustainable transport modes. • The delivery of the City Docks Transport Network and a clear street hierarchy that confines vehicular access to the City Docks within traffic cells in order to optimise the placemaking and public realm potential of the City Docks. • High quality walking / cycling streets and strategic routes along the quays, including improvements to the pedestrian / cycle realm at Albert Quay / Eamon de Valera Bridge (as illustrated in Volume 2: Mapped Objectives). • Transit orientated development, including the phased delivery of improvements to public transport from bus services, high quality bus services and the LRT. • City Docks Bridge delivery. • The provision of new pedestrian / cycle streets between Monahan’s Road and Blackrock Road. • Demand Management measures including maximum car parking standards. • Preparation of a Mobility Hub Feasibility Study during the lifetime of this Plan. Objective 10.32 Public Realm and Public Open Space Public realm design in the City Docks will be guided by the Docks Public Realm Strategy, Public Realm Guidelines, the Marina Park Masterplan 2013 and the South Docks Drainage Strategy 2021 (including the strategic landscape concept and its components). Cork City Council will update the Public Realm Strategy (including the Masterplan) during the lifetime of the Plan.
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