Chapter 2 I Core Strategy
Project Ireland 2040 2.8 Project Ireland 2040 is the Irish Government’s strategy to make Ireland a better country for all its people. It is designed to deliver on many of the UN SDGs by aligning public infrastructural investment with more sustainable spatial growth patterns. The National Development Plan (NDP) and the National Planning Framework (NPF) combine to form Project Ireland 2040. The NPF sets out the spatial strategy for growth and development and is underpinned by the public investment plan set out in the NDP. 2.9 The NPF is a statutory blueprint that plans for a projected 1 million increase in our national population, 550,000 more homes and an additional 660,000 jobs by 2040. The delivery of compact growth is central to the NPF, designed to enable people to live closer to where they work, maximise return on public investment and direct a shift away from current unsustainable spatial growth patterns. The NPF and the accompanying NPF Roadmap provide the statutory framework for the Regional Spatial and Economic Strategies (RSES) and all City and County Development Plans.
2.10 The NDP (2018-2027) provides investment policy to give certainty to future national growth. It includes investment priorities for Cork City and the wider region that underpin the implementation of the NPF, enabling a stable environment for infrastructure led growth. The delivery of infrastructure led develop- ment is critical to realising the NPF’s targets and the objectives for compact liveable growth set out in this Plan. 2.11 This Development Plan recognises the important overarching roles the UN SDGs, the NPF and the NDP play in shaping land use planning and management in Cork City. The Plan’s 9 strategic objectives connect directly to 17 UN SDG’s and the 10 National Strategic Outcomes (NSO’s) in the NPF.
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Cork City Development Plan 2022-2028 I Volume 1
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