Introduction
Executive Summary
Network (PPN). Actions to further develop Cork City’s commitment to lifelong Education and Learning include the expansion of the learning neighbourhoods initiative and existing learning models into other areas. While primarily driven by the objectives of Cork City Development Plan 2015-2021, delivering a high Quality of Place is further enhanced through support for more localised actions such as the Cork City Centre Action Plan (2015). Actions to ensure the delivery of a Safe and Green City include the implementation of the Joint Policing Committee Strategy (2016) and the active pursuit of Green City status by 2021. Delivering Competiveness through Strategic Governance includes supporting synergies between Cork City and other cities that strengthen collective opportunities for sustainable growth and the review and preparation of a successor to the Cork Area Strategic Plan (CASP) by 2020. Actions to drive Economic Diversity in the city include the CORE (city centre) programme to collaborate and implement local initiatives that stimulate employment and retail activity in the city centre. Cork City Local Enterprise Office (LEO) is central to delivering actions that drive Innovation and entrepreneurship. The development of Cork SMART Gateway is also delivering a series of new local smart technology initiatives within the city. The continued support of the Northside for Business initiative and active participation in the Regional Skills Forum are two of the actions to develop Skills and Human Capital in the city. Delivering improved Transportation and
• Social Economy • Skills and Human Capital • Education and Learning • Transportation and Communications • Social Inclusion and Equality • Quality of Place • Competitiveness through Strategic Governance The third section, A Profile of the City , analyses the city under each of the 15 High Level Goals. Findings from two key reports 2 provide the evidence base and a comprehensive review of current international, national and local policy provides the policy context. The combination of these findings allows for a well grounded understanding of how the city can implement the best actions, most efficiently and effectively, at local level. The Action Plan for Cork City sets out the 98 Strategic Objectives and 239 Local Actions that form the plan. These objectives and actions reflect core elements of life in Cork City, with many people from a variety of different groups and stakeholders involved in their making. The challenges of the current Housing market are reflected in the need for holistic, long term and practical local actions, such as the Residential Delivery Strategy for the city. Opportunities to build on the WHO’s designation of Cork as a Healthy City are built into local actions to improve the health and well-being of all of the city’s people and reducing health inequalities. The city’s strong history of Community Participation is enhanced through new initiatives such as the Public Participation
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he Local Government Act 2001 (as amended) requires each Local Authority to prepare
Future (Cork City Council, 2001) . It also sets out the plan making process including significant consultation and inputs from a number of key groups now tasked with co-ordinating and delivering the HLG’s, Objectives and Actions. This inter-agency collaboration and synergy supports both the wide range of existing stakeholder strategies and action plans already at work in the city (refer to page 22) and new actions and initiatives required to achieve a higher quality of life within the city. A Vision for Cork City , the second section of the plan, outlines the Strengths, Challenges, Opportunities and Threats (SCOT) in planning for community and economic development in the city, as identified in the Socio-Economic Statement that initiated this plan. The 15 HLG’s are derived from the plan’s vision statement and SCOT analysis and reflect the reality of what makes for a good quality of life for Cork City and its citizens:
and implement a Local Economic and Community Plan (LECP) as a means to
advancing the overarching actions for reform set out in the Action Programme for Effective Local Government – Putting People First (2012) . Responding to this, PURE CORK - An Action Plan for the City is a unified local economic and community plan that seeks to embrace the objectives and work of local, business, community and public service providers in the city. The plan was developed over a two-year period with business, community and voluntary organisations, public agencies and social partners. The result is an ambitious but focused six year plan with 15 High Level Goals (HLG’s) driven by Strategic Objectives to be realised through a series of Local Actions. This plan has been prepared in accordance with Section 66A to 66H of the Local Government Act 2001 (as amended) , with Section 66G setting out a requirement for the City Council’s annual report to assess its implementation and any subsequent reviews. The first section, A Local Economic and Community Plan (LECP) for Cork City , details how the plan seeks to build on the structures, work and achievements of Cork 2012 – Imagine Our
• Housing • Children and Young People • Healthy City • Older People • Community Participation
• Economic Diversity • Safe and Green City • Innovation
2 The Cork City Profile (2014) and The Cork City LECP – Baseline Report (2016)
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