A Vision for Cork City
Pure Cork - An Action Plan For The City
Vision Statement
• A very strong community and voluntary sector • Excellent quality of life, with sports, cultural and recreational facilities and both the city centre and the countryside being within easy access • Significant additional entrepreneurship support available • Cork City has World Health Organisation (WHO) Healthy City Status and is pursuing WHO Age Friendly City Status. Cork also has a Food Policy Council • Strong track record of inter-agency collaboration in the City (e.g. LGBT inter-agency working group) • Several centres of medical excellence located in the city • EcCowell Cork promotes integrating strategies across economic, educational, health and environmental needs • The river and waterways are easily accessible and greatly add to the attractive lifestyle and tourism offering. Cork’s harbour is the world’s second largest natural harbour and a major natural asset
The vision for Cork City and this LECP has been adopted from the Cork City Development Plan (2015- 2021) :
“...to be a successful, sustainable regional capital and to achieve a high quality of life for its citizens and a robust local economy, by balancing the relationship between community, economic development and environmental quality. It will have a diverse innovative economy, will maintain its distinctive character and cultural heritage, will have a network of attractive neighbourhoods served by good quality transport and amenities and will be a place where people want to live, work, visit and invest in.” • That Cork will have vibrant, resilient, inclusive, sustainable communities where people have a good quality of life and access to quality public services • To ensure balanced and sustainable economic development and employment • To promote social inclusion and equality by ensuring that all residents of Cork City have equal opportunities to access, participate and engage in the social, economic and lifelong learning opportunities in the city
Challenges (reflects situation in June 2015)
• Shortage of modern, large floor plate offices to meet the needs of inward investors and large indigenous companies • Possible over dependence on Foreign Direct Investment • Continuing concentration of disadvantage in certain geographic areas and among particular communities, while recession has also impacted the wider community and led to a wider dispersal of disadvantage. • Decline in passengers and routes through Cork Airport • Population has been gradually declining since 1979, with some evidence of stabilisation between 2006 and 2011 • Reduction in funding to the community and voluntary sector in recent years • Significant lack of availability and access to quality, affordable housing in the city is a challenge including the short-term rental sector • The age dependency ratio is much higher than the national average • Risk of flooding in city centre
SCOT Analysis (June 2015)
Strengths, Challenges, Opportunities and Threats (SCOT) in planning for community and economic development in Cork City were identified as part of the Socio-Economic Statement that initiated the making of this plan:
Strengths (reflects situation in June 2015)
• Strong record in attracting and retaining Foreign Direct Investment • Strong business services networks/organisations, which actively support new business ventures and inward investing companies • The Port of Cork is an EU designated Trans European Network Core Port and a nationally designated Tier 1 port which accommodates services across all six shipping modes • International airport serving range of British and European scheduled destinations, including major business hubs of London Heathrow and Amsterdam Schipol • A reputation for excellence in undergraduate and post graduate education, training, research and development
Opportunities (reflects situation in June 2015)
• Potential for new residential and employment development though redevelopment and intensification of ‘brownfield land’ in areas such as the City Centre, Docklands, Mahon and Blackpool
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