Chapter 3 I Delivering Homes and Communities
Objective 3.1 Planning for Sustainable Neighbourhoods Cork City Council will seek to: a. Utilise the Urban Towns, Hinterland Villages and City Neighbourhoods as spatial units to develop sustainable neighbourhoods, employing the 15-Minute City concept; b. Require development proposals to put placemaking at the heart of their design concept and clearly demonstrate how neighbourhood integration, health and wellbeing and enhancement is central to this; c. Plan for communities in accordance with the aims, objectives and principles of ‘Sustainable Residential Development in Urban Areas’ and the accompanying ‘Urban Design Manual – A Best Practice Guide’, Universal Design principles and any updates; d. Ensure that an appropriate level of supporting neighbourhood infrastructure is provided in conjunction with, and as an integral component of, residential development in New Sustainable Neighbourhoods; e. Undertake a Cork City Neighbourhoods Strategy during the lifetime of the Plan to identify strategic gaps in the provision of services / infrastructure / resources within existing and proposed neighbourhoods; f. Create healthy and attractive places to live consistent with NPO 4 of the NPF and Goal 3: Sustainable Place Framework of the RSES.
Objective 3.2 A Diverse, Inclusive and Equal City Cork City Council will seek to ensure that Cork is an inclusive City and meets the needs of all by: a. Providing a land use planning system that ensures an appropriate distribution of land uses, infrastructure and services to give equal access to all residents to live, work, educate, recreate and avail of other services in terms of range and quality; b. Consciously considering specific population groups in the design of neighbourhoods, places, buildings, streets and spaces to meet the needs of all citizens; c. Consciously considering specific population groups in the development of planning policy, strategies and frameworks with an emphasis on young people, old people and people with disabilities; d. Promoting measures that reduce concentrations of social inequality between neighbourhoods. Objective 3.3 New Housing Supply Provision will be made for at least 17,118 new homes to be built in Cork over the Development Plan period. This will be achieved by: a. Zoning sufficient lands for residential or a mix of residential and other uses to facilitate the delivery of housing; b. Designating Transformational sites capable of delivering new homes; c. Utilising the Cork City Capacity Study prepared as an input into this Plan to identify the residential development potential of sites; d. Active land management utilising the provisions of the Derelict Sites Act 1990 and Urban Regeneration and Housing Act 2015; e. Optimising the potential of brownfield sites (see Objective 3.4);
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