Chapter 2 I Core Strategy
Objectives for City Growth
2.57 Following on from the Core Strategy Maps and Tables presented above, the Table below identifies the roles, key sites and key deliverables the Core Strategy will play in shaping land use planning in Cork City during this Plan period:
City Area
Role in the Core Strategy
Some Key Sites Key Deliverables
City Centre
Consolidate and regenerate the city centre to underpin its role as the vibrant, living and working heart of the city and metro area. Provide a wider range of employment, cultural, learning and community uses that increase vibrancy and activity. Encourage more homes in mixed use areas by increasing residential and employment uses, especially on upper floors. Encourage a broader mix of cultural and tourism uses, including educational entertainment. Develop at a scale and form that reflects and respects the city centres historic character. Phased regeneration of the City Docks and Tivoli Docks as high quality, higher density, mixed use sustainable waterfront areas with new urban quarters and transformational projects acting as catalyst for further invest- ment and regeneration of the City. Consolidate and enhance by providing a mix of new neighbourhood uses in suitable underutilised locations. Prioritise walking, cycling and public transport access. Deliver uses, layouts and densities that enhance existing local character. Deliver high quality sustainable transport orientated development in combination with high frequency bus routes, the new commuter station at Blackpool (Kilbarry) and prioritised cycling and walking routes set out in CMATS.
Grand Parade Quarter
1. Grand Parade Quarter:
A Transformational Project. 2. Cork City Centre Revitalisation Action Plan 2021-2025. 3. Guidance and actions to increase upper floor uses. 4. Progress the Vacant and Derelicts sites registers and supports. 5. The UCC School of Business on Union Quay.
Infill and consolidation within the existing built footprint.
Docklands
City Docks: Marina Park, Kennedy Quay
1. City Docklands:
A Transformational Project. 2. Establish the Cork Docklands Office. 3. Deliver catalyst infrastructure. 4. Progress planning and infrastructure to deliver regeneration in Tivoli Docks.
Tivoli Docks: New train station, repurposed waterfront (2.5km), new eastern access, new central park and cultural waterside hub. Ballyvolane, Mahon Blackpool / Kilbarry, North-West Quarter Regeneration area, Old Whitechurch Road. Regenerate underutilised sites in existing neigh-
City Suburbs
1. Delivery of CMATS 2. Framework plans for Blackpool / Kilbarry,
Ballyvolane, and Douglas. 3. Action plans for Neighbour- hood Development Sites. 4. New City Parks in the Northeast and Northwest suburbs.
bourhoods including Mayfield, Douglas, Grange, Togher and Wilton.
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