scheme was announced under Budget 2020 , to run until the end of 2022. A summary of the scheme uptake thus far is as follows:
Table 1: Breakdown of year on year uptake of the Living City Initiative in Cork: Year Application lodged: No. of applications received: Running total: Running total no. of properties involved: Running total no. of residential units to be delivered:
2015 2016 2017 2018 2019
2
2
11 15 24 21
13 28 52 73 82
2020 (Q 1, 2 and 3)
9
85
107
Table 2: An updated summary of the overall uptake of the scheme: Total no. of applications received to date: No. granted 1st stage certification: No. granted 2nd (final) stage certification:
Applicant Type:
82
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29
41 – Owner occupier 41 – Rented Residential
Table 3: Details of estimated expenditure per project at 1 st stage of certification: Estimated expenditure on applications (€) No. of approved applications Under 50k 20 50k – 100k 13 100k – 150k 4 150k – 200k 3 200k – 250k 5 250k – 300k 3 300k + 5 Total 53 Table 4: Details of Expenditure for projects granted final stage certification: No. of approved applications Total amount of approved expenditure 29 €4,458,791
Climate Action Unit Highlights
In the beginning of October Cork City Council presented a climate action paper at the Mannheim Sustainable Cities Conference entitled ‘ A safe harbour for ships ’ .
The Climate Action unit held an online public meeting which was very well attended, it involved presentations from Brian Leddin TD (Chair of the Oireachtas Climate Committee), Theresa Rose Sebastian (‘Fridays for Futures’ School climate striker) and Micheál Lyons (Cork City Council Climate Action Unit) and number of interesting discussions took pla ce on climate related issues. Micheál also presented a paper at Innovation Week entitled ‘Innovation and Climate Action’.
A progress report on the implementation of Cork City Council’s ‘Climate Change Adaptation Strategy 2019 - 2024’ was forwarded to CARO, the Climate Action Regional Office.
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