A Vision for Cork City
Pure Cork - An Action Plan For The City
• Development of a number of Tier 1 broadband connections in Cork • Redevelopment of Port of Cork • New office developments in City Centre and Mahon, as well as significant retail developments planned • Key development opportunities identified at Blackpool and Tivoli • Development of new 6,000 seat events centre and implementation of the City Centre Action Plan • Leverage the existing research capabilities and overseas companies to support sustainable indigenous business growth • Development of joint Cork City and County Tourism strategy and action plan • Implementation of the Lower Lee (Cork City) Flood Relief Scheme (including Blackpool and Ballyvolane) • Digital start-up hub in Parnell Place • Triple helix – collaboration between government, business and higher education e.g. IT@Cork, Energy Cork • Potential to develop the social economy • Cork’s participation in UNESCO Global Network of Learning Cities
recognising their central role in realising many of the High level Goals 4 . Other stakeholders are making valuable contributions to the city but are at a less advanced stage in terms of strategy and operational structure. A key challenge for the success of this plan is to create the right conditions that allow these structures to function at their best and to grow and enhance the city’s local richness in a dynamic, co-ordinated and confident manner. By achieving this unified approach at local level, the ideal of “One City, Many Communities” can be realised even stronger.
Cork City LECP 2016–2021 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 in the city. And 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.
Threats (reflects situation in June 2015)
• Development of disruptive technologies could impact on employment and attractiveness • Rising costs could reduce Cork’s competitiveness and attractiveness • Insufficient investment in key enabling infrastructure and technology • Competition from other City Regions • Lack of housing to attract workers • Dependence on small number of companies for high proportion of employment
High Level Goals - 15 Themes
THEME 1 /// Housing Clearly identify and plan responses to a range of housing issues experienced in Cork City to strengthen the economic and community development of the city.
High Level Goals (HLGs) for Cork City
This plan is structured around 15 High Level Goals (HLGs), identified during the plan’s preparation, representing a collective and holistic vision for Cork City in line with the vision statement outlined above.
THEME 2 /// Healthy City Ensure Cork is a healthy city that connects to improve the health and well-being of all its people and reduce health inequalities.
The focus of the HLGs is not on the core business of any one agency but on cross cutting areas of work, avoiding duplication and enhancing collaboration. A wide variety of citywide multi-agency structures are already in place in Cork City, with some having both their strategic vision and local action plans in operation (see figure 4 above). This LECP incorporates these strategic plans thereby
THEME 3 /// Community Participation Integrate communities and community and voluntary groups into decision making and to promote civic participation and community engagement.
4 General actions supporting the overall implementation of these strategies are included in this plan. Individual actions are not listed, please refer to the strategy in question for more detail.
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