[Leading Cork to take its place as a World Class City] __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Re-Opening a More Resilient Cork City Centre in the ‘ Enhancing the Urban Environment ’ category.
The aim was to make the city centre more inclusive, safer and a pleasant place and experience for residents, shoppers and visitors while supporting local business and culture. This involved, at its core, a major infrastructure realignment to permanently pedestrianise 17 streets to make the city centre more people friendly and greener. It delivered:
• Pedestrianisation interventions on 17 streets • New bike parking facilities at 50 locations (city wide) • Extended street furniture licenses including winter proofing • Enhanced cycling infrastructure (bollards, new cycle lanes) • Urban parklets – new community interaction spaces which helped ‘green’ the city • Temporary footpath extensions to facilitate access • City Centre branding initiative – friendly & welcoming signage
Infill Housing Conservation Project, 5-6 Shandon Street & John Philpott Curran Street in the ‘Heritage & Built Enviro nment’ category.
Cork City Council restored two 18th Century derelict town houses on the corner of Shandon Street and John Philpott Curran Street and infilled a site on the corner of John Philpott Curran Street and Cathedral Avenue to provide 9 sheltered housing apartments. This project transformed the identity of an urban block in the historic Shandon quarter of the City from dereliction to active, fully habitable, efficient accommodation for use by elderly members of the local community.
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