Chapter 11 I Placemaking and Managing Development
• Specialist Housing for Older People: Age Friendly Principles and Guidelines for the Planning Authority (Age Friendly Ireland, March 2021) inform principles and standards of housing for older people as part of the community. Bespoke Housing for older people should be designed to: (i) The minimum standard of a 2 Bed / 3 person apartment in order to ensure that older people have homes that have sufficient space to enable visitors / carers to be accommodated within the home; and (ii) Universal Design Standards to enable to futureproof homes so that they can comfortably accommodate wheelchair use if and when required. Technical guidance relating to the specification for the design of housing for older people is likely to be forthcoming and will be taken into account when assessing planning applications. Qualitative Considerations in the Design of Apartment Schemes 11.92 Government guidance in the form of Sustainable Urban Housing: Design Standards for New Apartments provides the current qualitative guidance for designing apartment developments. Additionally, Cork City Council will seek to ensure that: 1. Communal space within schemes should benefit from excellent daylight and sunlight that exceeds the minimum standards (the scheme layout and volumetric configuration of buildings should optimise solar gain to all spaces). Where daylight and sunlight are at minimum standards, this should be supplemented by rooftop communal amenity space; 2. Communal space is equally accessible to all residents and is tenure blind; 3. Rooftop spaces should be put to productive use for either: green roofs, blue roofs, solar energy, communal rooftop gardens, communal MUGAs, or communal allotments; 4. Green and blue roofs should be designed according to best practice (e.g. Living Roofs and Walls, GLA ,2008).
Planning Applications for Apartment Schemes 11.93 All applications for planning permission for apartment schemes or mixed housing developments that include apartments must submit a schedule that details the number and type of apartments and associated individual unit floor areas, including the number of dual aspect units, private amenity space size, storage space, access, proposed tenure and level of accessibility. 11.94 Planning conditions may be applied relating to a wide range of relevant development issues specific to apartment schemes, including: 1. Operation and management of apartment developments, in compliance with the Multi-Use Developments Act 2011; 2. Equality of access to communal spaces; 3. Glazing systems to manage overheating; 4. Rooftop communal space for amenity and growing; 5. Green walls.
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