Chapter 3 I Delivering Homes and Communities
Delivering Homes
3.20 Ensuring that small sites are brought forward is essential to regenerating Cork City’s neighbour- hoods and its historic areas. Small sites also provide the opportunity for self-build, co-operative housing, development trusts, eco-villages and a range of other developer options. 3.21 In operating an Active Land Management approach to optimise the use of land and buildings in the city, the Vacant Sites Register, under the provisions of the Urban Regeneration and Housing Act 2015 will identify Residential lands and Regeneration lands. Cork City Council is required to identify land use zoning types that will be considered to be “Residential lands” and those that will be “Regeneration land”. Table 3.3, below, sets out the relevant land use zoning objectives that relate to both categories of land for the purposes of the vacant sites levy.
3.17 The National Planning Framework and the Southern RSES provide ambitious growth targets for Cork City, as set out in Chapter 2: Core Strategy. The Joint Cork City and Cork County Housing Strategy / Housing Need and Demand Assessment (HNDA) establishes the housing targets for net housing completions for the Development Plan period, informed by the NPF, NPF Roadmap, RSES and the Housing Supply Guidelines (DHLGC, December 2020). These housing supply targets are set out in Table 3.2, below. 3.18 In line with the requirements of the Planning and Development Act, 2000 (as amended) Cork City Council will review supply targets in 2024 (the two-year development plan review).
Year
2022
2023
2024
2025
2026
2027
2028
Total
Homes
1,353
2,706
2,706
2,706
2,706
2,706
1,353
16,236
Table 3.2: Housing Supply targets per annum.
Residential Land Regeneration Land
Compact Growth in Cork
ZO 1-9
ZO 1 Sustainable Residential Neighbourhoods ZO 4 Mixed Use Development ZO 5 City Centre ZO 6 Urban Town Centre ZO 7 District Centres ZO 8 Neighbourhood and Local Centres ZO 9 Light Industry and Related Uses ZO 10 Business & Technology
Please refer to Chapter 12, 12.10 Clarification of Residential Uses.
3.19 In response to the NPF and the RSES (e.g. RPO 10 Compact Growth in Metropolitan Areas) Cork City Council has ambitious housing targets for brown- field sites, as well as seeking to optimise the supply of housing on greenfield sites. Increasing the supply of housing on brownfield sites is challenging for a broad variety of reasons, including site constraints, complexity and viability). Cork City Council aims to work with landowners, the development industry, state agencies and its other partners to ensure that a substantial supply of housing on brownfield sites is brought to fruition. Cork City Council will seek to unlock suitable brownfield sites with the resources at its disposal.
Table 3.3: Vacant sites categorisation.
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