Draft Report v1.0
spaces and public spaces in the city as well as investment in supporting local neighbourhoods businesses, shops, butchers, grocers. Overall responses indicate a recognition of changing times and aspirations that Cork can ‘evolve but retain uniqueness’ as a culturally rich city. Change - how we work together towards the future A number of hopes and concern relate to how we work together as city to tackle issues and realise or manage the changes ahead. Example of comments invite ‘confidence and leadership’, ‘solutions focussed’ rather than reactive, to move ‘beyond business as usual’, ‘to be innovative’ to ‘learn from mistakes’ and aspiration such as ‘working together to improve the future – empathy and action’. There is a sense of hopes for improvement around collaborative decision making, to ‘harness good passion to improve’ build ‘collectivity, action, people power’, for people to be ‘socially connected around SDGs’ or that ‘people would exercise their right with bottom up democracy’. These express an appetite for positive change where we ‘learn to grow’, can mobilise around a ‘realisation that together we can change things’ and the opportunities for enhanced inter-agency working for communities, creativity and talent to attract ‘the best and brightest’. Education, adult education and community engagement feature in these responses as potential areas of action. Horizon Scan: These workshops took place on 13 th and 18 th April 2023. The government decision to lift the eviction ban took effect from 31 st March 2023 bringing the national housing crisis into focus sharp in public discourse. At the time of drafting this report, the Dublin riots later in the year demonstrate the reality of the risks and impact of a rise in far right rhetoric combined with the effects of disadvantage in our communities – making it a far more plausible future than we might hope. These issues and concern were clearly being felt in Cork earlier in the year.
“Rise of right wing groups”
“ Keeps personality as it grows”
“ level of dereliction
“More equality and opportunity for disadvantaged communities”
especially with housing crisis”
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