Chapter 3 I Delivering Homes and Communities
f. Actively encouraging the re-use of vacant space within existing buildings (especially built heritage assets and those in the City Centre) and vacant homes by utilising all instruments at Cork City Council’s disposal; g. Ensuring that all new housing developments contribute to the creation and / or maintenance of successful neighbourhoods and are designed to the highest standards (see Chapter 11: Placemaking and Managing Development).
h. Establishing ambitious and achievable build- out rates at the planning stage to help ensure that homes are built quickly and to reduce the likelihood of permissions being sought to sell land on at a higher value; i. Influencing Government to update the legislative, guidance, fiscal and financial framework to the benefit of housing delivery on brownfield sites; j. Combining its role as planning authority and housing authority to bring about residential development to meet demand and need; k. Where new sustainable transport infrastructure is planned, land use designations will be reviewed and updated where appropriate to provide for housing or mixed use development (including housing); l. Unlocking the development potential of brownfield sites to be used as an evidence base and business case for intervention; m. Ensuring that all new housing developments contribute to the creation and / or maintenance of successful neighbourhoods; n. Identifying and promoting the development potential of brownfield, small sites, regeneration areas and infrastructure packages to enable progress towards achieving compact growth targets; o. Encouraging the retrofitting and reuse of existing buildings, rather than their demolition and reconstruction.
Objective 3.4
Compact Growth Cork City Council will seek to ensure that at least 66% of all new homes will be provided within the existing footprint of Cork. Cork City Council will seek to ensure that at least 33% of all new homes will be provided within brownfield sites in Cork. Optimising the potential for housing delivery on all suitable and available brownfield sites will be achieved by: a. Cork City Council acting as a development agency to kickstart regeneration of sites and buildings, utilising acquisition as required; b. Progress housing and employment delivery in urban centres and strategic regeneration sites; c. Active land management utilising the range of tools available (including the Derelict Sites Act 1990 and the Urban Regeneration and Housing Act 2015); d. The redevelopment of surplus utility and public sector owned sites; e. The development of small and infill sites and the re-use of existing designated and undesignated built heritage assets including those on development sites; f. The utilisation of planning and urban design tools to provide a framework for the development of sites (e.g. masterplanning, framework plans, neighbourhood strategies, historic area regeneration strategies, site specific briefs); g. Optimising the use of land (see Objective 3.5: Residential Density);
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