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Cork City Local Economic and Community Plan (LECP) 2016 – 2021 Pure Cork An Action Plan For The City Pure Cork - An Action Plan For The City

Contents

Foreword� �� 8 Implementation and Monitoring �� 101 Acknowledgements �� 9 Overview ��102 Cork – What Makes the City? ��10 Timeframe & Review ��102 Executive Summary ��12 Implementation ��102 Implementation Plan ��102 A Local Economic and Community Plan (LECP) for Cork City �� 17 Monitoring ��103 Context ��18 Key Tasks for the Steering Group ��103 What is an LECP? ��19 The Plan Making Process ��20 Appendices �� 104 Guiding Principles ��21 Appendix I: LCDC Membership �� 104 Strategies for the City ��21 Appendix II: SPEDE SPC Membership ��105 Public Consultation �� 23 Appendix III: Consistency Statement with Cork City Development Plan (2015-2021) Strategic Environmental Assessment and Appropriate Assessment �� 25 & SW Regional Planning Guidelines (2010 – 2022) �� 106 Appendix IV: Appropriate Assessment Screening Determination ��107 A Vision for Cork City ��27 Appendix V: Determination for Screening out requirement to undertake a SEA �� 108 Vision Statement ��28 SCOT Analysis ��28 Glossary �� 109 High Level Goals for Cork City ��30 United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development �� 33

A Profile of the City ��37 This LECP is accompanied by, and should be read Overview ��38 in conjunction with, the following documents: Analysing the City ��38 • Cork City LECP Socio-Economic Statement (August 2015) • Cork City LECP Baseline Report (March 2016) An Action Plan for Cork City ��69 • SEA and AA Screening Reports Overview �� 70

What Type of Actions are Implementable? �� 70 These documents are available at: Goals, Objectives and Actions ��71 http://www.corkcity.ie/localeconomicandcommunityplan/ 4 5 Cork City LECP 2016 - 2021 ROAD MAP

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Foreword Acknowledgements

The Local Government Reform Act of 2014 bestowed responsibility on local government to provide The Cork City Local Community Development Committee and the Strategic Planning Economic strategic leadership and direction in the area of local economic and community development. Development and Enterprise Strategic Policy Committee would like to thank the following people Responding to this, PURE CORK - An Action Plan for the City 2016-2021 is a unified local economic in the production of the LECP “Pure Cork” plan: and community plan that seeks to embrace the objectives and work of local business, community and public service providers in the city. • Pat Ledwidge, Director of Strategic Planning and Economic Development, Cork City Council.

• Paul Moynihan, Director of Corporate and External Affairs, Cork City Council. Consultation and preparation for this plan began in early 2015 and involved intense engagement with a wide range of business, community and voluntary organisations, public agencies, social • The LECP Team: Elmarie Mc McCarthy and Lorcan Griffin (Strategic Planning and Economic partners and other key stakeholders in Cork city. The result is an ambitious but focused six year Development Directorate, Cork City Council), Tony Power and Maria Minguella (Social Inclusion plan based on fifteen High Level Goals, driven by Strategic Objectives that will be delivered Unit, Corporate and External Affairs Directorate, Cork City Council). through a series of Local Actions – all of which are set out in this plan. • We would particularly like to thank Thomas McCarthy for setting the scene for the LECP with his beautifully written introduction – “Cork, What Makes the City”. The plan’s actions will be the focus of the work for the Local Community Development Committee (LCDC) and the Strategic Planning, Economic Development and Enterprise Strategic Policy • AIRO, for the development of the baseline report. Committee (SPEDE SPC) in the coming years. To assist this work, two year implementation plans • Finally, we would like to extend our gratitude to the individuals, community organisations, public will be prepared with continuing engagement and collaboration with the relevant stakeholders in the city. agencies, organisations and departments and business representatives who took the time to lend their expertise and experiences to this Plan through attendance at workshops and through This plan should act as a key reference document for all publically funded-bodies and other agencies consultations and written submissions. operating in the city. As such, it will help co-ordinate the activities of all stakeholders, thus ensuring better results for those living, working, and investing in the city. As a multi-agency plan, resources will be required to deliver the actions through multi-agency cooperation.

We would like to acknowledge the work of the LCDC, the SPEDE SPC and all of the local development bodies, community and voluntary organisations, business groups and representatives, members of the public and other stakeholders who have given their time and contributed to the preparation of this plan. Cork City Council in partnership with all stakeholders will seek to drive this plan’s actions forward.

Michael Finn Cllr Chris O’Leary Assistant Commissioner Chair, Cork City Strategic Planning, Chair, Cork City Local Community Economic Development and Enterprise Development Committee Strategic Policy Committee

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Cork - What Makes the City? creative city the Council, again, supports the why hours and hours are spent researching, internationally acclaimed Lifelong Learning developing, resourcing, the City Council’s Festival, the hugely popular Marathon, The Ceili strategies and reports. It is why planners Mor, and many other mass participation events and ambitious local politicians try to create the where the city as a humane, living landscape most intelligent city possible, a city that shares comes forward to reveal its great bold the burden of the nation, not just a region. n May 2nd, 1917, nearly a century ago, themselves? The answer is, no, they can’t. strength. A city, yes, is its buildings and Cork has a great deal to offer Ireland, not just O the Cork Improvement Bill passed More than ever cities are subject to planning physical infrastructure, but it is also that vital Cork; and as Cork demonstrated during its reign the Report Stage in the House of Commons. regulations as well as transport and housing historical, living network of loyal communities as European Capital of Culture or when hosting The Bill had been brilliantly shepherded through limitations. The future of the world lies in its working together, inspiring and enabling Queen Elizabeth II, the city responds to any its Parliamentary votes by the determined cities. A city can be choked by deliberate networks such as our Faith community and our national challenge with a generous sincerity Co. Cork MPs, Maurice and Tim Healy whose political acts, just as a city can spring to life Gay community, our Arts, Libraries and Theatre and confidence. Cork is ready to put its shoulder great fear had been the opposition of Ulster after seventy years of inertia by a Bill such organisations. All fold together into a single to the wheel, to do the heavy lifting for Ireland Unionist MPs who might have been worried as the Cork Harbour Act of 1820 and the Cork prodigious affirmation of life by the Lee. as well as for itself. This is how it should be – by the setting up of the Ford Motor Works Improvement Act of 1917. To watch a city rising And why a document such as this is placed at Cork. But Tim Healy’s advocacy won the is a beautiful thing. A city is a living organism I’ll always remember the day when I became before you; an arrangement of hard facts and a support of Captain Craig, Sharman Crawford and the purring sound of this organism as it conscious of this urban power of Cork. It was review of strategies. The work of Cork planning and Bonar Law. The Ford assembly works, thrives and grows is the sound of people during the closing days of Cork’s reign as continues; it is relentless and on-going. Here is the beating heart of Cork’s industrial might assembling and dispersing, on buses, bicycles, a European Capital of Culture in 2005. I was PURE CORK, then, a framework for decision for the next sixty years, had come into being. trains and cars. There is a poetry in city life taking an official from the Ministry of Culture making and resource allocation; and a The approaching centenary of this Bill in 2017 that’s beautiful. Writers like Frank O’ Connor or in Budapest on a fact-finding and historical tour continuing sign that the best minds are still should remind us of how well the interests Mary Leland, or Conal Creedon and Kevin Barry, of the city, something I loved to do. This highly at work among the inheritors of Healy’s and of Cork were protected by the old and now have captured the essence of Cork life in their placed official was an historian by profession Redmond’s love of Cork. The future begins, yet forgotten Irish Party. The care of this second books. They are our eternal witnesses, their and she wanted to absorb the atmosphere of again, because an ancient city steps forward to city of the State, and its interests, is one of works giving us glimpses of a deep urban soul. an Atlantic city. She was impressed by the total shine a brilliant, new urban future upon our the highest duties of Irish public life, and Reading them, and others, should centre our package of Cork; the beautiful winter city, settled Irish life. members of the old Irish Party were keenly sense of recognition, as well as giving us huge the energy of Patrick Street on Friday morning, aware of this. We would do well to remember hope for the human permanence and future of the aromas of the English Market, the burning Thomas McCarthy, them, to understand how the interests of cities local urban life. candles in St. Peter’s and Paul’s Church, August 2016.1 need to be protected at the highest political the Crawford and Glucksman galleries, level. Cities are massive human and economic And this urban life is such a critical thing, such the Rory Gallagher memorial, the great James constructs and we should plan their fate with a lived reality within the politics of our modern Barry exhibition, the young European engineers 1 Thomas McCarthy was born in Co. Waterford. While doing post- graduate work at UCC he won the Patrick Kavanagh Award for his great political care. era. Nowadays Cork City Council has become a she met drinking at café tables. At such first book The First Convention(1978). He went on to publish The Sorrow-Garden (1981), The Non-Aligned Storyteller (1984), Seven crucial enabler and supporter of this expanding moments, on days like that, Cork city makes Winters in Paris (1989), The Lost Province (1996), Merchant Prince (2005) and The Last Geraldine Officer(2009). He has published And why should we protect the interests of our human landscape of urban life; providing sports a deep impression upon an educated stranger. two novels and a memoir, Gardens of Remembrance (1998). For many years he worked at Cork City Libraries, and in 1994-95 he was cities? Can’t cities with their population density facilities and community playgrounds and This impression is not false, it is pure gold, Humphrey Professor of English at Macalester College in Minnesota. He is a member of Aosdana and a Fellow of the RSA, London. His and commercial imperatives look after meeting spaces. In terms of this active, and it is what good planning strives for. It is new collection of poems, Pandemonium, is published by Carcanet Press in November.”

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Executive Summary • Social Economy Network (PPN). Actions to further develop Cork • Skills and Human Capital City’s commitment to lifelong Education and • Education and Learning Learning include the expansion of the learning • Transportation and Communications neighbourhoods initiative and existing learning • Social Inclusion and Equality models into other areas. While primarily driven • Quality of Place by the objectives of Cork City Development Plan he Local Government Act 2001 (as amended) Future (Cork City Council, 2001). It also sets out • Competitiveness through Strategic 2015-2021, delivering a high Quality of Place Trequires each Local Authority to prepare the plan making process including significant Governance is further enhanced through support for more and implement a Local Economic and consultation and inputs from a number of key localised actions such as the Cork City Centre Community Plan (LECP) as a means to groups now tasked with co-ordinating and The third section, A Profile of the City, analyses Action Plan (2015). Actions to ensure the advancing the overarching actions for reform delivering the HLG’s, Objectives and Actions. the city under each of the 15 High Level Goals. delivery of a Safe and Green City include the set out in the Action Programme for Effective This inter-agency collaboration and synergy Findings from two key reports2 provide the implementation of the Joint Policing Committee Local Government – Putting People First (2012). supports both the wide range of existing evidence base and a comprehensive review of Strategy (2016) and the active pursuit of Green stakeholder strategies and action plans already current international, national and local policy City status by 2021. Responding to this, PURE CORK - An Action at work in the city (refer to page 22) and provides the policy context. The combination Plan for the City is a unified local economic new actions and initiatives required to achieve of these findings allows for a well grounded Delivering Competiveness through Strategic and community plan that seeks to embrace a higher quality of life within the city. understanding of how the city can implement Governance includes supporting synergies the objectives and work of local, business, the best actions, most efficiently and between Cork City and other cities that community and public service providers in the A Vision for Cork City, the second section of effectively, at local level. strengthen collective opportunities for city. The plan was developed over a two-year the plan, outlines the Strengths, Challenges, sustainable growth and the review and period with business, community and voluntary Opportunities and Threats (SCOT) in planning The Action Plan for Cork City sets out the 98 preparation of a successor to the Cork Area organisations, public agencies and social for community and economic development in Strategic Objectives and 239 Local Actions that Strategic Plan (CASP) by 2020. Actions to partners. The result is an ambitious but focused the city, as identified in the Socio-Economic form the plan. These objectives and actions drive Economic Diversity in the city include the six year plan with 15 High Level Goals (HLG’s) Statement that initiated this plan. The 15 HLG’s reflect core elements of life in Cork City, with CORE (city centre) programme to collaborate driven by Strategic Objectives to be realised are derived from the plan’s vision statement many people from a variety of different groups and implement local initiatives that stimulate through a series of Local Actions. This plan has and SCOT analysis and reflect the reality of and stakeholders involved in their making. The employment and retail activity in the city been prepared in accordance with Section 66A what makes for a good quality of life for Cork challenges of the current Housing market are centre. Cork City Local Enterprise Office to 66H of the Local Government Act 2001 City and its citizens: reflected in the need for holistic, long term and (LEO) is central to delivering actions that (as amended), with Section 66G setting out practical local actions, such as the Residential drive Innovation and entrepreneurship. a requirement for the City Council’s annual • Housing Delivery Strategy for the city. Opportunities to The development of Cork SMART Gateway report to assess its implementation and • Children and Young People build on the WHO’s designation of Cork as a is also delivering a series of new local smart any subsequent reviews. • Healthy City Healthy City are built into local actions to technology initiatives within the city. • Older People improve the health and well-being of all of the The continued support of the Northside for The first section, A Local Economic and • Community Participation city’s people and reducing health inequalities. Business initiative and active participation in Community Plan (LECP) for Cork City, details how • Economic Diversity The city’s strong history of Community the Regional Skills Forum are two of the actions the plan seeks to build on the structures, work • Safe and Green City Participation is enhanced through new to develop Skills and Human Capital in the city. and achievements of Cork 2012 – Imagine Our • Innovation initiatives such as the Public Participation Delivering improved Transportation and

2 The Cork City Profile (2014) and The Cork City LECP – Baseline Report (2016)

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Communication infrastructure at regional and local level includes supporting key infrastructure projects and promoting ICT opportunities such as reduced cost international data transfer.

Actions to support and strengthen the local Social Economy include the delivery of a multi- stakeholder citywide strategy and investigating the expansion of local successful social economy models. Responding to the needs of Children and Young People in the city includes strengthening the inter-agency approach of the Children and Young Person’s Services Committee (CYPSC) and promoting the further development of the JIGSAW programme in the city. The delivery of actions set out in the Cork Age Friendly City Strategy 2016 – 2020 is central to developing an integrated response to the needs of Older People living in the city. Social Inclusion and Equality actions include the promotion of inter-agency groups and the continued implementation of the RAPID programme to target the most disadvantaged communities in the city.

Given the wide variety of actions within the plan, the implementation, monitoring, evaluation and review will be critical in determining its success. Implementation will be tracked through a three staged approach, with objectives and actions fully reviewed every two years. Each objective and action will be reviewed to monitor progress, assess relevance and establish the need for additions and amendments. This will allow for a more realistic and flexible plan that remains current to the economic and community needs of Cork City over the next six years.

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Context In accordance with the Local Government Act 2001 (as amended), the implementation of this LECP shall be consistent with the following: The Cork City Local Economic and Community Plan (LECP) 2016 – 2021 is an action driven plan used to guide economic and community development in the city over the next six years. This plan seeks • The National Spatial Strategy (NSS) 2002 – 2020, to be superseded by the forthcoming to build on the structures, work and achievements of Cork 2012 – Imagine Our Future (Cork City National Planning Framework (NPF) 2016-2026. Council, 2001) and on the work of the Cork City Development Board. Imagine Our Future was central • The South West Regional Planning Guidelines 2010-2022, to be superseded by the to generating the delivery of creative initiatives such as the Cork City Lifelong Learning Festival, forthcoming Southern Regional Spatial and Economic Strategy (RSES) Cork Healthy Cities, the Discovery Science Exhibition, the Inter-agency Traveller Group and inter- • The Core Strategy and objectives of the Cork City Development Plan 2015-2021; agency work on LGBT in the city. • Any other City Development Plan and Local Area Plan provisions responsible for the protection and management of the environment including environmental sensitivities. This LECP will drive a series of actions to progress communities and stimulate economic development at local level, within this strategic context. The plan is very much based on a multi- All future reviews of the LECP, and the objectives and actions therein, will provide the opportunity agency approach that will require both cross-sector input and cross sector ownership. to confirm consistency with the forthcoming National Planning Framework (NPF) and the Southern Regional Spatial and Economic Strategy (RSES). In addition, the LECP is the framework for Local While this plan recognises and reflects the importance of spatial development, it is not a spatial Development Strategies and other plans under the auspices of the LCDC. It also serves to inform development plan. The forthcoming National Planning Framework (NPF), the Southern Regional a range of statutory and collaborative integrated planning processes. Spatial and Economic Strategy (RSES) and the existing Cork City Development Plan 2015-2021 will provide the strategic guidance for sustainable land use planning for the city. Due consideration has been given to the requirements for Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) and Appropriate Assessment (AA) during the preparation of this plan and screening has been carried out for both3. The preparation of any lower tier plans or strategies will be subject to SEA and AA processes as appropriate, in accordance with the relevant legislation.

National Planning Framework 2016–2026 What is an LECP?

Regional The passing into law of the Local Government Reform Act 2014 necessitated a number of Spatial and Economic Strategy changes to the administration of local government in Ireland. Among the more significant of these developments was a new statutory requirement that Local Authorities should prepare an integrated Local Economic and Community Plan (LECP), comprising specific economic and City community elements, in accordance with the principle of sustainable development. These plans City and County Development Plans are to provide a service delivery planning framework over a six-year period. Local Ecomonic and Community Plan In order to support the implementation of the LECP, the Minister for the Environment, Community, Strategic Detailed and Local Government, issued guidelines to Local Authorities on the preparation of the plan. Local Area Plans These guidelines set out a five stage process for developing an LECP: Area Based / Local Development Objectives Proposals

Figure 1: Pyramid of National, Regional and Local Plans Source: Action Plan for Jobs 2015

3 http://www.corkcity.ie/localeconomicandcommunityplan/

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Phase 01: Preparation and High Level Goals Guiding Principles of the LECP Phase 02: Public Consultation The LECP is underpinned by the following guiding principles, identified as part of the Phase 03: Development of Objectives and Actions Socio-Economic Statement that initiated the making of this plan: Phase 04: Finalise Plan Phase 05: Monitoring and Review 1. Sustainability – promoting a more resource efficient, green and more inclusive society and economy 2. Maximising returns by co-operation, collaboration and avoiding duplication

3. Participative ‘ bottom-up’ approach– ensuring meaningful community participation and consultation in the planning process Figure 2: The five stages of making an LECP (source: DoECLG; Guidelines for LECPs, 2015) 4. The promotion and mainstreaming of equality 5. Harnessing existing local and community development infrastructure to make best use of resources 6. Community development principles – addressing social exclusion and providing supports for the most marginalised The Plan Making Process 7. Accessibility and ownership – written in a straight forward style

The plan making process required inputs from a number of key groups tasked with co-ordinating The plan will seek to integrate these guiding principles by focusing on the following types of actions: and delivering High Level Goals, Strategic Objectives and Local Actions.

• Stakeholder Driven Actions: Actions that guide and inform the work of plans that operate at a more strategic level (national, regional, metropolitan, and gateway)

• Local Level Actions: Actions that support the implementation of existing and future stakeholder strategies influencing the development of Cork City at local level

• GAP Actions: Actions that identify inter-agency gaps in the economic and community CORK CITY COUNCIL development of the city (RESERVED FUNCTION)

Regional Stakeholders and In implementing these actions, this plan will need to have due regard to the nature of the action, Assembly ADVISORY General Public the partners tasked with implementing the action and their level of ability to achieve that STEERING action. In doing so, it is hoped that every effort is made to ensure this LECP is both practical and GROUP implementable. ECONOMIC COMMUNITY ELEMENT ELEMENT (SPC) (LCDC) Strategies for the City

The Cork City LECP needs to represent a shared plan for the city, one that shapes Cork as a world- class city of creativity, investment and opportunity, a city that offers a superior quality of life. This will require commitment from all partners, making the plan a living document with ongoing reflection, review, monitoring and consultation at local level.

Figure 3: LECP Steering Groups, Stakeholders and Oversight Bodies

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To achieve this, Cork City LECP aims to ensure inter-agency collaboration, connectivity Public Consultation and synergy between all the strategies and action plans at work in the city:

Consultation processes have played a central role in the development of this LECP for the City. There has always been evidence of strong collaboration across agencies, social partners and the local development and community development sectors in Cork City. This LECP needs to represent a strengthening of these collaborations, allowing for shared ownership, policy consistency and the achievement of common goals for the good of the city. The consultation process involved in the Joint Cork City South West formation of the plan, commenced early in 2015 and involved intense engagement with a wide and Cork City Walking- Cork Smart & County Housing Action Plan for Jobs Strategy 2013–2018 Gateway Strategy varied range of economic and community stakeholders at work in the City: Strategy (2009) 2015–2017 Regional Action Joint Policing Plan for Homeless Metropolitan Cork Committee Strategy Services 2013–2018 in Joint Retail Strategy Economic Strand 2016-2022 South West Traveller “Growing Accommoda- Cork City SICAP Ac- Tourism in Cork” Cork City Centre The economic elements of the LECP have been informed by the economic strategy in the Cork tion Programme tion Plan A Collective Strategy Strategy (2014–2018) 2015-2020 City Development Plan. Adopted in 2015 the City Development Plan was the result of an extensive Cork Children and City North West Cork City consultation process. Similarly the economic elements incorporate existing strategies and plans, Young’s People Quarter Regeneration Development Plan Services Committee such as the South West Action Plan for Jobs and City Centre Strategy, which were informed by Master Plan 2015–2021 Strategy extensive consultation. In addition, workshops, stakeholder meetings and public consultation were Cork Healthy Cities Cork City Council Cork City Local Phase IV 2014–18 Libraries Read Learn used to generate a multi-agency input into what objectives and actions are needed to drive the Enterprise Plan 2016 Action Plan Explore 2015–2019 economic element of this plan. Cork Local Drug Cork City Council and Alcohol Task Age Friendly City Corporate Plan Force Strategic Plan Strategy 2015-2019 2015–2017 Community Strand Cork City Council Cork City Heritage Cork Transport Cork City Music Climate Change Plan 2014-2018 Feasibility Study Generation Strategy Strategy Commencing in October 2015, the Social Inclusion Unit began the process of wider consultation Cork City Local Cork Sports Part- to inform the delivery of this plan. Global contact was made by the Social Inclusion Unit with all Cork Area Strategic Economic and Com- nership Strategic Plan Plan 2001–2020 munity Plan (LECP) 2014–2017 agencies, voluntary groups and statutory bodies in Cork City. One-to-one stakeholder consultation 2016-2021 took place to further develop objectives and actions with submissions invited and collated for Cork City Art and Cultural Strategy review by both steering groups (LCDC and SPEDE SPC). 2011–2015

Figure 4: Honeycomb of strategies at work in Cork City

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Both strands of this plan have been based on a bottom up approach, with a diverse Cork City Stakeholder Engagement...A Sample of... range of stakeholders having a central role in the plan making process: AGE FRIENDLY CITY – HEALTHY CITIES – UNESCO CITY OF LEARNING – COMHAIRLE NA NÓG – CORK CITY LOCAL ENTERPRISE OFFICE – CORK CHAMBER – CORK CITY CHILDCARE COMMITTEE – CORK CITY PUBLIC 1 . Steering Groups and Elected Representatives: PARTICIPATION NETWORK – CORK EDUCATION TRAINING BOARD – HEALTH SERVICE EXECUTIVE – CORK An Advisory Steering Group was established consisting of members of the SPEDE (Strategic CITY JOINT POLICING COMMITTEE – CORK CITY COUNCIL – UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK – CORK INSTITUTE Planning, Economic Development and Enterprise) SPC and LCDC (The Local Community and OF TECHNOLOGY – CORK CITY PARTNERSHIP – CORK EQUAL AND SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES ALLIANCE Development Committee). The Advisory Steering Group met to lead and guide the initial planning (CESCA) – CORK CITY COUNCIL STRATEGIC POLICY COMMITTEES – CORK CITY TRAVELLER INTERAGENCY process. The LCDC and the SPEDE SPC then both held a series of meetings, central to delivering this GROUP – CORK LOCAL DRUGS TASK FORCE – TUSLA CHILD AND FAMILY AGENCY – CORK SPORTS plan. Separate workshops of the LCDC, the SPEDE SPC and elected local authority representatives PARTNERSHIP – NORTHSIDE FOR BUSINESS – CORK CITY LGBT INTERAGENCY GROUP – ECCOWELL (19th April), delivered the drafting of this plan. A joint workshop of the SPEDE SPC and the LCDC – CORK FOOD POLICY COUNCIL – IDA IRELAND – SOLAS – FORÓIGE – DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL (16th May) took place to agree on overlapping community and economic issues set out in this plan. PROTECTION – CORK CITY MUSIC EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP – IBEC – CORK ENVIRONMENTAL FORUM There were two further public consultations in May and August/September 2016.

Figure 5: A sample of stakeholders engaged in the LECP consultation process. 2. General Public: A total of 19 members of the public made a submission to the Socio-Economic Statement when it was put out for public consultation in August 2015. Initial findings from the recent CorkCitiEngage Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) survey of over 3,500 people in the wider Cork region were also used to inform this plan. There were and Natura Impact Assessment (NIA) two further public consultations in May and August/September 2016.

3. Business Sector: Screening Overview for Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) A workshop with a cross section of employers, educational providers, business interest groups Under the European Communities (Environmental Assessment of Certain Plans and Programmes) and state body representatives was held in City Hall on the 21st April 2016. Regulations 2004 (S.I. 435 of 2004 as amended by S.I. 200 of 2011), all plans which are likely to have a significant effect on the environment must undergo screening to determine whether a SEA 4. Statutory and Voluntary Sector: is required. “Screening” to determine whether a particular plan, would be likely to have significant Focus groups and one to one interviews with senior level representatives environmental effects, and would thus warrant SEA. This Plan has been screened for SEA , which concludes that the LECP is not considered likely to have a significant impact on the environment 5. Networking Bodies and Collaborative Structures: and therefore a SEA is not required. The screening report can be downloaded from http://www. One to one submissions with a range of networking bodies and collaborative structures across corkcity.ie/localeconomicandcommunityplan/ and will be updated as relevant throughout the the city, representing sectors such as employers, children/young people, policing, older people, implementation process. Travellers, new communities, education and LGBT.

Screening Overview for Appropriate Assessment (AA) 6. Cork City Council: An Appropriate Assessment screening has been undertaken for this plan in accordance with the Ongoing liaison with senior management, and workshops with senior staff. requirements of Article 6(3) of the EU Habitats Directive (directive 92/43/EEC) to determine if the

LECP is likely to significantly affect Natura 2000 sites .(i e. Special Areas of Conservation (SAC) 7. National Bodies and Special Protection Areas (SPA)) within or surrounding the plan area. The conclusion of the AA Submissions received and one to one consultation with national representative bodies. screening process is that further (‘stage 2’) AA is not required. The screening report accompanies this plan and will be updated as relevant throughout the Plan-preparation process.

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Vision Statement • A very strong community and voluntary sector • Excellent quality of life, with sports, cultural and recreational facilities and both the city centre The vision for Cork City and this LECP has been adopted from the Cork City Development Plan (2015- 2021): and the countryside being within easy access • Significant additional entrepreneurship support available “...to be a successful, sustainable regional capital and to achieve a high quality of life • Cork City has World Health Organisation (WHO) Healthy City Status and is pursuing WHO Age for its citizens and a robust local economy, by balancing the relationship between Friendly City Status. Cork also has a Food Policy Council community, economic development and environmental quality. It will have a diverse • Strong track record of inter-agency collaboration in the City (e.g. LGBT inter-agency working group) innovative economy, will maintain its distinctive character and cultural heritage, will • Several centres of medical excellence located in the city have a network of attractive neighbourhoods served by good quality transport and • EcCowell Cork promotes integrating strategies across economic, educational, health and amenities and will be a place where people want to live, work, visit and invest in.” environmental needs • The river and waterways are easily accessible and greatly add to the attractive lifestyle and • That Cork will have vibrant, resilient, inclusive, sustainable communities where people have a good tourism offering. Cork’s harbour is the world’s second largest natural harbour and a major natural asset 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 Challenges (reflects situation in June 2015) opportunities to access, participate and engage in the social, economic and lifelong learning opportunities in the city • 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 SCOT Analysis (June 2015) • 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 Strengths, Challenges, Opportunities and Threats (SCOT) in planning for community and economic dispersal of disadvantage. development in Cork City were identified as part of the Socio-Economic Statement that initiated • Decline in passengers and routes through Cork Airport the making of this plan: • Population has been gradually declining since 1979, with some evidence of stabilisation between 2006 and 2011 Strengths (reflects situation in June 2015) • 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 • Strong record in attracting and retaining Foreign Direct Investment including the short-term rental sector • Strong business services networks/organisations, which actively support new business ventures • The age dependency ratio is much higher than the national average and inward investing companies • Risk of flooding in city centre • 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 Opportunities (reflects situation in June 2015) major business hubs of London Heathrow and Amsterdam Schipol • A reputation for excellence in undergraduate and post graduate education, training, research and • Potential for new residential and employment development though redevelopment and development intensification of ‘brownfield land’ in areas such as the City Centre, Docklands, Mahon and Blackpool

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• Development of a number of Tier 1 broadband connections in Cork recognising their central role in realising many of the High level Goals4. Other stakeholders are • Redevelopment of Port of Cork making valuable contributions to the city but are at a less advanced stage in terms of strategy • New office developments in City Centre and Mahon, as well as significant retail developments planned and operational structure. • Key development opportunities identified at Blackpool and Tivoli • Development of new 6,000 seat events centre and implementation of the City Centre Action Plan A key challenge for the success of this plan is to create the right conditions that allow these • Leverage the existing research capabilities and overseas companies to support sustainable indigenous structures to function at their best and to grow and enhance the city’s local richness in a dynamic, business growth co-ordinated and confident manner. By achieving this unified approach at local level, the ideal of • Development of joint Cork City and County Tourism strategy and action plan “One City, Many Communities” can be realised even stronger. • 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 2016–2021 • Cork’s participation in UNESCO Global Network of Learning Cities Cork City LECP

That Cork will have vibrant, resilient, inclusive, sustainable communities where people have a good quality of life and access to quality public services. Threats (reflects situation in June 2015) To ensure balanced and sustainable economic development and employment in the city. And to promote social inclusion and equality by ensuring that all • Development of disruptive technologies could impact on employment and attractiveness residents of Cork City have equal opportunities to access, participate and • Rising costs could reduce Cork’s competitiveness and attractiveness engage in the social, economic and lifelong learning opportunities in the city. • Insufficient investment in key enabling infrastructure and technology • Competition from other City Regions • Lack of housing to attract workers High Level Goals - 15 Themes • Dependence on small number of companies for high proportion of employment

THEME 1 /// Housing High Level Goals (HLGs) for Cork City 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. 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 The focus of the HLGs is not on the core business of any one agency but on cross cutting areas of people and reduce health inequalities. 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.

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THEME 4 /// Safe and Green City THEME 14 /// Quality Of Place Ensure Cork is a safe and green city with a secure and sustainable environment in which to Build on Cork’s strong place quality assets and improve the attractiveness of the city for live, work and play residents and visitors

THEME 5 /// Social Economy THEME 15 /// Competitiveness Through Strategic Governance Ensure the vibrant social economy sector is supported and enhanced. Co-operate with other stakeholders to deliver the strategic governance that ensures the Cork Gateway remains a competitive location for economic activity and also to maintain the excellent quality of life available in Cork which underpins the Gateway’s competitiveness THEME 6 /// Education and Learning Support the culture of learning in Cork and enhance educational levels across the city.

THEME 7 /// Social Inclusion and Equality Reduce the marginalisation of specific communities within the city, taking into account the nine grounds and socio economic status. United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development

18- THEME 8 /// Children and Young People In September 2015, world leaders attending the United Nations Sustainable Development Summit Develop integrated responses to the needs of children and young people and improve adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. This agenda sets out 17 Sustainable outcomes through local inter-agency working . Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, fight inequality and injustice and tackle climate change by 2030. Each SDG sets out goals, targets and indicators that all UN member states are expected to use to frame their agendas and political policies over the next 15 years. 65+ THEME 9 /// Older People Develop integrated responses to the needs of older people, promoting their inclusion and contribution in all areas of life and responding.

THEME 10 /// Economic Diversity Support the maintenance of a diverse economic base within the city

THEME 11 /// Innovation Support innovation in the local economy

THEME 12 /// Skills and Human Capital Develop skills within the Cork area to match the needs of existing and future businesses. Provide support services for the unemployed and help maintain and expand businesses in areas of high unemployment

THEME 13 /// Transport and Communications Support measures to improve transport and telecommunications networks into and around Cork City and region Figure 6: UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development - 17 SDGs

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This LECP recognises the strategic importance of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and UN’s 17 Sustainable Relevance of Cork City’s LECP: the integrated multiagency approach required to achieve this within Cork City. Reflecting this, the Development Goals 15 High Level Goals 15 HLG’s that drive the objectives and actions in this plan are interconnected with the UN’s 17 SDG’s Goal 13. in many ways: Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts UN’s 17 Sustainable Relevance of Cork City’s LECP: Development Goals 15 High Level Goals

Goal 1. Goal 14. End poverty in all its forms everywhere Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable Goal 15. agriculture Protect, restore and promote sustainable use Goal 3. of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being 65+ forests, combat desertification, and halt and for all at all ages reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality 65+ Goal 16. education and promote lifelong learning Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for opportunities for all sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable Goal 5. and inclusive institutions at all levels Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and Goal 6. revitalize Global Partnership for Sustainable Ensure availability and sustainable Development management of water and sanitation for all

Goal 7. Figure 7: Integrating the UN’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all

Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all

Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation

Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries

Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable

Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns

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and as demand for housing greatly out- Overview strips supply, the problem is likely to worsen. Recognising the need for urgent action, Cork City is unique and distinctive due to a combination of features, places, people and ideals. Housing the government has recently launched To help capture this essence, this plan uses a comprehensive socio-economic evidence base to Rebuilding Ireland – Action Plan for Housing provide a sound footing for decision making, thereby ensuring the approach taken is robust, “Lanes such as Baily’s Lane, Ashgrove (2016), a detailed set of actions designed to reliable and justifiable. Two key documents of note have been used: Lane, Looney’s Lane, Convent Place, reinvigorate the housing market. Construction Vincent’s Avenue, St. Ann’s Square, 2020: A Strategy for a Renewed Construction The Cork City Profile (2014) Wolfe Tone Place, part of Wolfe Tone Sector, and the Social Housing Strategy 2020: Drawing on the invaluable work of the collaboration between the Social Inclusion Unit and the Street, Croft’s Lane, Skeye’s Lane, Support, Supply and Reform, are two other Cork Healthy Cities Group, The Cork City Profile 2014 provides a robust inter-agency evidence base Donovan’s Lane and Hogan’s Lane were government policy responses centred on containing an in-depth analysis of a rich collection of data on Cork City. The report covers ten to be demolished and their occupants delivering a more efficient and equitable different themes ranging from demography and economy to housing and deprivation. moved to the new houses. Work on the housing market. The report has provided the LECP with a strong socio-economic profile of the city. development commenced before the end of 1932 and by the middle of the The housing market in Cork City mirrors following year the sky-line had been the issues and challenges faced by the state. The Cork City LECP – Baseline Report (2016) transformed…” A recent ESRI Research Note, Projected Identifying the need for an outward looking evidence base, the Cork City LECP – Baseline Colman O’Mahony; In the Shadows: Population Change and Housing Demand: Report (2016) was researched and published by Cork City Council and the All Ireland Research Life in Cork 1750-1930, p302 A County Level Analysis (Edgar Morgenroth, Observatory (AIRO). This report has identified and used a number of existing boundary 2014), projected that Cork City and County definitions that have a spatial importance for how Cork City operates. These boundaries are used areas will have a demand in excess of 22,000 to compare and analyse data at different spatial scales from national to city, to sub city levels. Housing – Policy new housing units up to 2021. The challenge of The report illustrates the performance of a wide range of different indicators at city and sub city resolving supply shortage issues at local level levels. The grouping of these indicators allows for comparative analysis of both the city and of Housing is now a critical issue of national are complicated by the complexity of how the sub city areas against the State, the region and other cities. importance. The European Commission’s housing market operates and the number of Country Report Ireland 2015 notes the recent different stakeholders involved. Nevertheless, A full review of the current international, national and local policy context was also carried out national increases in house prices are largely it is incumbent on this LECP to clearly recognise to understand how the city can implement the best actions, most effectively and efficiently, driven by housing supply shortages, which the role local agencies can play in delivering transforming this plan’s vision into reality. could ultimately hamper economic focused actions to help address the current competitiveness and lead to affordability housing supply crisis. Analysing the City issues. A NESC report entitled, Social Housing at the Crossroads: Possibilities for Investment, Each of the 15 HLGs that inform this action plan are reflective of the challenges faced at local, Provision and Cost Rental (June 2014), stressed Housing – Stats and Facts regional, national and international levels in making Cork City a great place to live, work and enjoy. that serious problems were evident in social- This section gives an overview of both the policy review and the evidence base used to inform each housing provision. The Report of the Social “OVER 65% OF HOUSEHOLDS of the 15 HLGs that drive this plan. Inclusion Forum 2014, published by the LIVING IN THE CITY CENTRE Department of Social Protection, suggests ARE IN PRIVATE RENTAL that homelessness in Ireland is at a ‘crisis point’ HOMES”

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The most recent Census data shows that detailed actions covering critical health issues had an average of 159 annual incidences of well-being of future generations….” Cork City had over 47,163 households in 2011, such as rising chronic diseases (such as cancer, treated problem alcohol use between 2008- Carbery’, Fifty Years of Irish Athletics an increase of 7.5% since 2006. Over 14% diabetes and obesity), increasing numbers of 2012 (Source: NDTRS). The number of suicides (8,045 units) were unoccupied, mainly located mental health cases and the lack of activity in Cork City per 100,000 population has reduced in and around the city centre. Nearly half (48%) and recreation at youth level. Some key health from 20.1 in 2006 to 10.9 in 2011. The rates for Healthy City - Policy of all households in the city are two persons, related policy documents which are used to females is 3.0, while the rate for males is being a significantly higher rate than the guide this plan include: significantly higher at 18.7, but has steadily The factors which influence our health, known average for the State (39%). One in three decreased from 37.6 in 2006 to 27.8 in 2010. as the determinants of health, reach beyond houses are privately rented, compared to less • Dept. of Health’s Connecting for Life: In the period from 2007 to 2011, there were the boundaries of traditional health care and than one in five for the State. Only one in five Ireland’s National Strategy to Reduce 4,891 recorded cancer cases (including non- public health sectors. All sectors including houses in the city were occupied by an owner Suicide 2015-2020 melanoma skin cancer) in Cork City and 3,583 education, housing, employment, trans- with a mortgage, a decline of 27% since 2002. • The National Disability Strategy invasive cancer cases (excluding non-melanoma portation, health, agriculture, and environment; Implementation Plan 2013-2015 skin cancer). The greatest number of cancers and their interactions and interrelationships Local Authority rentals accounted for 17% • Tobacco Free Ireland, the National occurred in the 65 – 74 year age group. are essential to improving health and well- (7,260 units) of the total housing units in the Substance Misuse Strategy, being. According to the WHO Commission on city in 2011, being heavily concentrated in or • The National Physical Activity Plan In 2011 there were 21,098 persons living with a the Social Determinants of Health (WHO 2008), bordering the four RAPID designated areas in • The National Drug Strategy. disability in Cork City, representing 18% of the inequalities in health are shaped by the unequal the city. Over 65% of households in the city city’s total population, significantly higher than distribution of money, power and resources centre live in private rental accommodation, The concept of a holistic approach to achieving the State average (13%) and a 41% increase at global, national and local levels. It is the being significantly higher than the city wide a healthy city is being embraced in Cork City. In since 2006. There are higher numbers of people social, economic and environmental conditions average (27%) and the average for the four January 2012, the city was designated by the living with a disability in the four RAPID in which we live, and how they interact, designated RAPID areas (11%). Cork City’s World Health Organisation as a Healthy City, designated areas. that strongly influence our health. Social Housing Investment Programme (SHIP) committing to the overarching theme of health was cut from €54 million in 2009 to €5 million and health equity in all policies. The Healthy Cannabis was the most commonly used illegal In 2013, the Irish Government launched ‘Healthy in 2011. Cities model provides the framework to drug in Cork City in 2012, with 182 recorded Ireland5’ as a key step in bringing about the develop innovative and creative solutions to persons accessing treatment for this drug. changes and actions required for improving the public health and health promotion for the city. There were 111 recorded persons accessing health and wellbeing of the nation. This plan, treatment for opiates in the city and 73 for which has universal government departmental benzodiazepine. endorsement and obligations, identifies and Healthy City – Stats and Facts Healthy City involves every part of Irish society. The vision for Healthy Ireland is where everyone can enjoy 18% OF THE CITY’S TOTAL

physical and mental health and wellbeing to POPULATION IN 2011 HAD “To draw the minds of our youth from their full potential; where wellbeing is valued A DISABILITY enervating and soul-destroying pursuits, and supported at every level of society and is amateur athletics offer the ideal medium everyone’s responsibility. This framework plan There were 194,429 medical card holders in – a big, healthy field for our endeavour in sets out an integrated, co-ordinated and Cork City and County in 2012, the second the interests of the moral and physical intersectoral approach based on a series of highest total in the State. The city and county

5 The Department of Health’s Government Policy Healthy Ireland: A Framework for Improved Health and Wellbeing 2013-2025

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The country experienced a growth in women’s The Cork Volunteer Centre has been in place issues is important in Cork, finding that 36% groups in the 1980’s in response to “....the since 2010 providing a volunteer placement felt it improves collaboration for common good, women’s liberation movement, the changing service for the city. The Volunteer Centre 35% felt that it co-creates useful ideas and 25% Community nature of the labour market, the need for matches individuals who would like to felt that it develops shared goals. Participation childcare; and the isolation of women in deprived volunteer with non-profit organisations who urban communities. This influenced the upsurge involve volunteers in their activities. Advice Cork City’s long history of community “One aspect of community care policy of Travellers’ rights and disability rights and support is offered to both volunteers and participation remains very much active today that is often inadequately addressed is organisations, anti-drugs support groups non-profit organisations through a range of with a broad range of vibrant community the question of how reciprocities and and more recently migrant rights groups.”7 services including information, consultation, groups, initiatives and activities driving the networks of sociability and support volunteer management training and Garda many community development programmes can be encouraged within localities and The Department of Housing, Planning, vetting administration. Public libraries are now throughout the city. The Public Participation how the state can create an enabling Community and Local Government’s strategy vital community hubs at a local level, with the Network (PPN) has recently been formed to environment that harnesses the resources Our Communities: A Framework Policy for Local resources and spaces offered by Cork City’s allow groups operating in the city the of family, kin, friends and neighbours.” and Community Development in Ireland, 2015, is public libraries making a significant contribution opportunity to consider issues of public policy Older People in Modern Ireland: Essays on Law the national policy that seeks to harness all the to the vibrancy and level of community and to facilitate the public’s participation on and Policy Ed. By Eoin O’Dell potential resources at the disposal of participation in the city. city wide structures such as Joint Policing communities by bringing together people, Committee, Strategic Policy Committees and groups, agencies, voluntary and statutory the LCDC. Recognition schemes such as the Community Participation - Policy bodies to make a positive difference in the Community Participation – Stats and Facts Lord Mayor’s Community and Voluntary Awards development of sustainable communities. and the Pride of Place Awards play an important Community development in Ireland, originated 62% OF CORK CITIZENS part in highlighting and rewarding civic in rural Ireland in the 1960’s, and grew later as a Cork City has a long history of local level FEEL THERE ARE TOO FEW participation in the City. The Healthy Cities local response to high levels of unemployment, community participation, with the more recent OPPORTUNITIES TO ENGAGE Initiative and the RAPID programmes are educational disadvantage and poor housing and establishment of city wide structures creating IN PUBLIC ISSUES AND examples of city wide programmes that lack of public services during the 1970’s and a wider remit. The research study “Improving VOLUNTEERISM actively engage with the public. The Cork Equal 80’s. European poverty programmes and Local and Community Development Structures and Sustainable Communities Alliance (CESCA) community initiative programmes had a major and Programmes” (2008), commissioned The Cork Smart Gateway project recently is a collection of a number of community and influence on community development in Ireland by the Rapid Programme, Cork City Council, facilitated the IERC “CorkCitiEngage” public voluntary organisations working in the city that and the community and voluntary sector during Cork City Partnership and Cork City Community survey of the CASP and Mallow area’s (2015- have come together to actively address issues the 1970’s, 80’s and 90’s. These programmes Development Projects, set a number of 2016), measuring the public’s willingness to of disadvantage. Community engagement “.....supported the number increase of organis- recommendations on how to improve and engage/participate in public issues and forums such as Cork Age Friendly City, Comhairle ations, the professionalism of the sector and strengthen community participation in local volunteerism. The survey rated opportunities na Nóg and the Community Development their role in confronting policy issues that led to policy and development structures. One of the for people to participate in local decision Groups also play a central role in focused civic better standards of governance, management actions was the development of two toolkits, making in Cork, finding that: 62% felt that participation. and administration...”6 which provide guidance on how to effectively there were too few opportunities, 17% felt that represent a group and how to effectively there were enough and 19% didn’t know. This manage a group. survey also asked why participation in public

6 Our Communities: A Framework Policy for Local and Community Development in Ireland, 2015, Department of Environment and Local Government). 7 Ibid

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The Cork City Joint Policing Committee (JPC) is gas emission reduction targets, and that policies Council. The agency has spearheaded many charged with overseeing policing in the City. to address climate-related commitments are energy initiatives and contributed to the Its structures include Local Policing Fora, insufficient”. In response, the Sustainable development of energy policy at local, national Safe and Green City Policing district management committees Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI) has and EU level. The Lifetime Lab Information and the Joint Policing Committee itself. The developed a programme to support the delivery Centre provide information on different “But if the streets display the physical JPC membership is made up of City Councillors, of Sustainable Energy Communities (SECs) as environmental topics including Energy, panorama of stone and wood and metal, An Garda Síochána, City Council Executive a community led approach to “...developing a Waste and Water. The Cork Food Policy of hills and water, they also introduce the and the Cork City Public Participation Network. sustainable-energy system”. National exemplars Council is another example of a locally driven citizens themselves as they move about A six year strategic plan has been agreed by of SECs have demonstrated how local initiative that has formed to work towards the in their daily round of business and the JPC and will direct its work until 2021. communities can develop actions to achievement of a fairer, healthier, more secure leisure, displaying their characteristic significantly reduce their energy consumption, and sustainable food system within the city gestures, their accent, their public In 1973, the same year Ireland joined the in some cases leading to the establishment and throughout the region. personality. The citizen blossoms on the then European Economic Community (EEC), of related social enterprises and community street, enlivened by a hurried greeting, the European Commission unveiled its first business initiatives. a handshake or a passing smile…..….City Environmental Action Programme (EAP) with Safe and Green City – Stats and Facts streets are a rendezvous with humanity.” the stated aims of preventing environmental This is the environmental policy agenda with Dr. S.F. Pettit; This City of Cork 1700-1900, p13 damage, conserving an ecological equilibrium, which Cork City Council and other stakeholders THE NUMBER OF RECORDED and ensuring the rational use of natural in the city must now engage. The city’s OFFENCES IN CORK CITY HAS resources. Forty years and six EAPs later, environment, amenities, heritage, parks, REDUCED YEAR ON YEAR SINCE 2011 Safe and Green City - Policy the environmental policy landscape of the gardens, landscapes and streetscapes all EU has changed dramatically. Climate change, make a significant contribution to the well- In 2014 Cork City had the eighth highest The Strategy Statement 2013-2015 of an issue virtually unheard of 40 years ago, being of all our residents, visitors and number of offences recorded (per 10,000 pop) An Garda Síochána sets out the strategic goals, is now the driving force behind European businesses. They not only provide us with of the 28 Garda Divisions in the State. The objectives and principle initiatives directing the environmental policy. The Green City concept a sense of identity, history and cultural well- number of offences recorded in 2014 (12,506) organisation including its approach to crime. is one that minimises environmental impacts being, they are also a key contributor to our has reduced year on year since 2011 (15,422). The An Garda Síochána Annual Report 2013 and maximises opportunities to improve and economy and play an important role in Theft and related offences (31%) and public sets out more detailed performance indicators support the natural environment in urban areas supporting and cultivating a vibrant community order offences (21%) were the highest recorded relevant to the goals established above and the through measures such as energy efficiencies, and voluntary sector. The Cork City Heritage crimes in the city in 2014. The city had higher relative success in meeting them. The Child and waste reduction, low carbon transport and Plan 2015-2020 sets out a series of Natural levels of public order offences, damage to Family Agency’s (TUSLA) first Corporate Plan water cycle management. Guidelines such as Heritage Actions which seek to protect and property, and attempts/threats to murder/ outlines the agency’s overarching vision of The Green City Guidelines (2008) seek to ensure enhance the natural heritage assets of the assault/harass than the State averages in 2014. an Ireland in which ‘all children are safe and that these aims are realised. city (i.e. green spaces, trees, flora, fauna and achieving their full potential’. Better Outcomes, waterways). An analysis of recorded crimes in the 15 Garda Brighter Futures: The national policy framework for The European Commission’s Country Report stations that operated wholly or partly within children and young people 2014-2020, contains Ireland 2015 indicated that significant national Cork City Energy Agency, a section of the Cork Cork City in 2014 shows that the 15 to 64 age further actions that seek to keep children and challenges need to be addressed, noting that City Council, aims to develop, ratify and cohort are the most likely to be victims of young people safe and protected from harm. “Ireland is not on track to reach its greenhouse implement coherent energy policy for Cork City “crimes against the person” and “property

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crimes”. Women generally fall victim to rape, to maintain or establish strong business learning opportunities in cultural organisations to demonstrate to all our vision of a sexual assault and domestic violence in greater development functions in the Community to develop transferable skills. confident 21st century European city.” proportions than men, with higher rates in Cork Enterprise Centres. Joe Gavin; City of Making, 2005 City than the State average. The majority of the population of the city in the intermediate Social Entrepreneurs Ireland was set up as an Social Economy - Stats and Facts age range (18-64) experienced crime in a public independent organisation in 2007 and is funded Social Economy - Policy place. The youngest and oldest cohorts living in by private foundations, corporate partners, and “THE NUMBER OF PERSONS ON the city are least likely to be victims of crimes, individuals. This group, along with other social THE LIVE REGISTER IN THE CITY The European Commission Integrated Guidelines with the 0 to 14 age cohort most likely to be entrepreneurs such as the Arthur Guinness Fund REMAINS 50% HIGHER THAN for the economic and employment policies of victimised in homes. and Vodafone World of Difference, now form IN 2007, BUT HAS DECREASED Member States for implementing Europe 2020 the largest network of social entrepreneurs SIGNIFICANTLY YEAR ON YEAR” Strategy, state that countries that recognise Rising global demand for food is placing more in Ireland. The School for Social Entrepreneurs and value social enterprise as part of the ‘real’ pressure on national and regional agricultural (SSE) Ireland opened in 2014 with the goal of Matching the national trend, the annual economy have achieved significant growth in production with climate change already empowering people from all backgrounds to average number of persons on the Live employment and output in the sector while reducing agricultural yields. As oil prices remain create positive social change and is part of a Register in Cork City has seen significant addressing genuine social and environmental needs. high, increasing areas of land are now used to global network of twelve schools located across variation over the last eight years. The 2015 grow bio fuels rather than food. Responding Australia, Canada and the UK. number remains nearly 50% higher than that The Report of the Social Enterprise Task to these facts, Cork Food Policy Council seeks of 2007, but has decreased significantly year Force; The Role of Social Enterprise in National to influence local food policy to follow best Cork City has a growing history of nurturing on year. In January 2016, the total number of Recovery: Adding Value Delivering Change practice in developing a healthy, sustainable, social enterprises. A seminar was held in persons under the age of 25 years on the Live (2010), notes that social enterprise in Ireland and resilient food system. Key operators in the November 2012 which aimed to further kick- register in the City was 2,960, accounting has the potential to grow significantly to city are also embracing the need for long term start initiatives to promote social enterprise for between 10.2% and 12.9% of the total generate at least 65,000 jobs and 5% of sustainability, with Cork University Hospital as a model for developing social and economic unemployed registering in the cities three GDP. The report stated that the sector is (CUH) and University College Cork being the benefit in the city. As a result a number social welfare offices. currently underdeveloped, representing only first hospital and university in the world to be of actions were delivered including the 3% of GDP. The Department of Enterprise, awarded the prestigious ‘Green Flag’ for their establishing of the Northside Social Enterprise The City has a wide range of groups seeking to Trade and Employment’s strategy, Jobs and efforts in reducing their carbon footprint. Network. The Network was supported by reduce these rates of unemployment through Growth 2010, recognises social enterprise can Plato (with the support of Cork City Council and the social economy. Northside Community contribute significantly to achieving economic Local Enterprise Office, Cork City)as part of the Enterprise offers training, work and enterprise growth and employment nationally. The Forfás Northside for Business Initiative. The ambition skills with a particular focus on improving life report, Developing the Green Economy in Ireland for the network is to take the lead on the skills. Focused skills development programs (2009), notes that the green economy agenda development of a social enterprise strategy for for young men, such as those run through can also play a big role in achieving this aim, Social Economy the City in 2016/17, with support from Plato Churchfield Community Trust can bridge the if supported in the right manner. Both the and other Business Support agencies in the gaps in formal education (e.g. computer skills, National Action Plan for Jobs 2015- 2017 and “To celebrate the renewal of our city City. The Arts and Culture sector in the city cookery and literacy) while also working as The South-West Action Plan for Jobs 2015- environment, to rekindle our spirit of operate a number of employment training enterprises (e.g. Woodwork, Painting and 2017, reflect how the Community Enterprise community, to explore our culture and schemes to provide work placement and Horticulture). Social and food enterprises Centre Development Programme has helped

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such as the Community Cafe in Knocknaheeny Education and Learning - Policy The Cork Training Centre in Rossa Avenue, and training through the Education and Training provide a viable model for creating an environ- Bishopstown is under the remit of Cork ETB, Boards, and working with public agencies and ment to motivate and train independent living Local Authorities in Ireland support specific since the dissolution of FÁS and its replace- employers to promote training, employment skills. Boomerang Recycling is a new social and initiatives associated with lifelong learning but, ment with Solas. The Centre offers training to and entrepreneurship.” sustainable enterprise project providing local unlike some other countries, Local Government a diverse range of clients, including those employment for TÚS Scheme Workers up- is not directly responsible for the provision of entering the labour market for the first time, Cork City Council has been committed to skilling and training and researching means to education or training. The Department of job changers, those wishing to up-date or developing Cork as a Learning City since 2002 re-use and recycle mattresses. Meitheal Mara is Education and Skills organises, finances and acquire new skills, people with a disability and formally adopted the UNESCO Beijing a community boatyard in the heart of Cork City, runs primary and most secondary schools in the and early school leavers. Declaration on Building Learning Cities in 2014. a nationally-accredited training centre it country. The Cork Education and Training Board The Cork Lifelong Learning Festival, which has provides a range of training opportunities for (Cork ETB) is one of 16 ETBs in the country. The National Learning Network, part of Rehab, grown annually since its establishment in 2004, the whole community, with specific initiatives ETBs are statutory education authorities which has two training centres in Cork City (in Hollyhill is the main locally driven initiative working to help long-term and young unemployed have responsibility for education and training, and Model Farm Road) offering certified towards this aspiration. In 2015 UNESCO people back to work and education. Cork youth work and a range of other statutory programmes for adults who need additional recognised Cork’s progress towards developing Academy of Music is a unique community music functions. ETBs manage and operate second- supports and different approaches because of as a learning city by presenting it with a initiative which aims to provide an access route level schools, further education colleges, pilot an injury, health condition, illness, mild or Learning City Award, one of only 12 cities to music education for people who are socially, community national schools and a range of specific learning difficulty, or mental health worldwide to be honoured. The city also enjoys economically or culturally disadvantaged. It has adult and further education centres delivering problem. an international profile as a Learning City had significant success in working with young education and training programmes. thanks to its membership of PASCAL and long-term unemployed people to help The Department of Children and Youth Affairs’ International Exchanges (PIE), a project that them access education and employment. Universities, Institutes of Technology and (DCYA) Better Outcomes, Brighter Futures: fosters exchanges on lifelong learning between

Colleges of Education are largely funded by the The national policy framework for children and local, community and city organisations State through the Higher Education Authority (HEA). young people 2014-2020 sets out the current throughout the world. Cork City Council’s library national framework to address educational service is a major resource for lifelong learning Cork has a strong learning infrastructure that issues. Commitments involving Local in the city at local level, offering resources, includes two major Third Level colleges (UCC Government include supporting Early Years study space, ICT and professional and Education and Learning and CIT), and four Colleges of Further practitioners, teachers and educators through knowledgeable staff. Education (CityNorth College, Coláiste Stiofáin the establishment of peer learning networks, Naofa, St John’s Central College and the largest and providing better access to educational The Department of Children and Youth Affairs’ “Anyone who stops learning is old, in the country, Cork College of Commerce) run supports through further developing cluster (DCYA) Better Outcomes, Brighter Futures: whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone by Cork ETB. Cork ETB also offers a wide range arrangements between schools, community The national policy framework for children and who keeps learning stays young.” of complementary and second-chance and State services. The report sets out an young people 2014-2020 report indicates that Henry Ford education opportunities and initiatives tackling increasing role for Local Government in although 92% of children complete secondary educational disadvantage in both formal and promoting opportunities for children and education, only 13% of Traveller children do, “Education is the most powerful weapon community settings (e.g. Youthreach, young people to learn, including “...through resulting in increasing numbers of Traveller which you can use to change the world.” Community Education, Adult Basic Education appropriate policies in County Development children facing the significantly increased Nelson Mandela (Literacy), Traveller Education). Plans, the promotion of vocational education challenge of finding employment.

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Education and Learning - Stats and Facts aged 15+ (13,315 persons) living in the city All public bodies in Ireland have responsibility Development Boards (CDBs), established in had no formal/primary education. These to promote equality, prevent discrimination and 2000 in each local authority, have recently been NEARLY ONE IN FIVE PERSONS percentages were higher for people living in protect the human rights of their employees, replaced by the Local Community Development (AGE 15+) LIVING IN CORK CITY the four RAPID areas (24% - 30%) and lower customers, service users and everyone Committees (LCDCs). LCDCs were established ARE STILL IN THE EDUCATION in the city centre (10%) and the southeast of affected by their policies and plans. This is a under the Local Government Reform Act 2014, SYSTEM the city (9%). legal obligation, called the Public Sector Duty, to develop, co-ordinate and implement a and it originated in Section 42 of the Irish coherent and integrated approach to local and The overall trend in Cork City is towards a more Human Rights and Equality Act 2014. community development and to develop and educated population, with over one quarter of The National Action Plan for Social Inclusion monitor the community dimension of the Local the population having a third level degree or 2007-2016 is based on the lifecycle approach Economic and Community Plan. LCDCs higher in 2011, an increase from 15% in 2006. set out by the National Economic and Social membership includes representatives of the Nearly 18% (21,296 persons) of Cork City’s total Social Inclusion and Equality Council and adopted in the national partnership local authority, public bodies, local community population (aged 15 +) had not ceased their agreement, Towards 2016. The plan provides interests, local community representatives, education. The Student/Teacher ratio in Cork “My address is like my shoes. It travels supports at key stages of the lifecycle: children, and publicly funded and supported City was 15.1 in 2013/14, the lowest of any Local with me. I abide where there is a fight people of working age, older people, and people development bodies. Authority in the country. Primary schools have against wrong”. Mother Jones with disabilities. Other national level strategies relatively low average class room sizes with developed to tackle specific issues that relate Cork City’s Social Inclusion Unit supports the 66% of students in classes of 20-30. to social exclusion, include the following: local authority’s involvement in tackling social However, there is a distinct spatial component exclusion across the range of its activities to educational attainment in the city; between Social Inclusion and Equality - Policy • National Drugs Strategies 2009 – 2016 through policy analysis. Its role also involves 38% – 42% of the total populations of the • A Way Home: A Strategy to address raising awareness of social inclusion within and three north side Electoral Divisions (EDs) of Fair The Lisbon Strategy published in 2000 stated Homelessness in Ireland 2008-2013 outside the City Council and supporting the Hill B, Farranferris B and Gurranabraher A, have that the EU had to address economic, • Youth Homelessness Strategy (2001) LCDC. The unit is also a key mechanism for an educational attainment of primary level or employment and social priorities equally. In it and subsequent reviews embedding the National Anti-Poverty Strategy less, compared to the city wide average of 17%. the member states agreed a Social Inclusion • National Children’s Strategies, including and developing a strong anti-poverty focus Over 17% of the population living in the three Strategy that uses an Open Method of Better Outcomes, Brighter Futures: within local authority actions, policies and north side LEAs have an ordinary level degree, Coordination (OMC) to develop National Plans The national policy framework for children initiatives. The City Council’s network of National Diploma or higher, versus 31% of the in the areas of Social Inclusion, Pensions and and young people 2014-2020 libraries also contributes to social inclusion with LEAs south of the River Lee. Health and Long-Term Care every two years. • National Disability Strategy 2016-2019 equitable access to resources for personal In December 2010 the European Commission • National Women’s Strategy 2007-2016 development, for individuals and communities. published the EU 2020 Strategy in which it • The National Traveller and Roma Inclusion In 2011, 28% of the population (22,494 persons) commits to creating local structures that are Strategy (2016) Social Inclusion and Equality - Stats and Facts of Cork City had a third level education. These effective for both community representatives percentages were higher for people living in the and public bodies, that are strengthened and A number of structures and programmes have NEARLY 40% OF THE city centre (40%) and the southeast of the city resourced with the aim of further empowering been established and subsequently reformed POPULATION LIVING IN CORK (37%) and lower for the four designated RAPID communities and are better tailoring services at local level to help drive social inclusion and CITY CENTRE IN 2011 WERE areas (7% - 12%). In 2011, 17% of the population to meet local needs. community participation. County and City NON-IRISH NATIONALS

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Cork City has a diverse mix of nationalities The DCYA’s Better Outcomes, Brighter Futures children’s rights in Ireland ‘The Missing Link’ with 13% (14,611 people) of the total population 18- (2014) elaborates the key government priorities event highlighting the connection between in 2011 being non - Irish nationals. Nearly 25% for children and young people and the vision mental health and drugs. Easy access to books of this cohort are Polish, 30% are ‘Rest of the Children and Young People that Ireland will become one of the best small and other reading materials at an early age World’ nationalities, 29% are other EU states. countries in the world in which to grow up and gives children a solid foundation for educational Lone Parent families accounted for 24% “The summers were long and hot, as all raise a family. Local Authority involvement is advancement and creative expression. of the families living in the City, significantly childhood summers were, and, in winter, envisaged in many of the proposed actions, higher than the State average of 18%. sometimes we had snow. We grew up, including the central involvement of the Children and Young People though, strangely few grew out, for many Children and Young People’s Services - Stats and Facts In December 2013, there were 682 Asylum of my generation have stayed on in the Committee (CYPSC) and Local Community seekers in the five Direct Provision Accommod- place that shaped and sometimes even Development Committees (LCDC). BOYS AND GIRLS (AGED 5-8 ation Centres in the county of Cork. The two nurtured them. I still love Cork. There I YRS) LIVING IN CORK CITY, centres within or adjoining the city (Glenvera, belong and there I am secure.” Children and Young People’s Services SPEND 18% OF THEIR TIME Wellington Road and the Kinsale Road Centre) A Cork Girlhood’ in The Cork Anthology Committees (CYPSC) are a key structure PLAYING, WITH OVER HALF have the highest number of residents (357 (Ed. Dunne), P117 identified by Government to plan and co- PLAYING OUTSIDE AFTER persons). There are an estimated 12,000 gay, ordinate services for children and young people SCHOOL. lesbian and bisexual people living in Cork City in every county in Ireland. The overall purpose is (10% of the total population), with an absence Children and Young People - Policy to improve outcomes for children and young In 2011, over 19% of Cork City’s total population of research relating to the size and nature of people through local and national inter-agency were aged 0-18 years with 5% aged 0-4 years, the Transgender community. Healthy Ireland: A Framework for Improved working. Comhairle na nÓg are child and youth 8% aged 5-12 years and 7% aged 13-18 years. Health and Wellbeing 2013-2025 - Department councils in all Local Authorities of the country The Youth Dependency Ratio of Cork City The Trutz-Haase Deprivation Index for Cork City of Health (2013) identifies investment in early designed to enable young people (under the (21%) is relatively low compared to the State shows the four designated RAPID Areas suffer intervention initiatives aimed at children and age of 18 years) to have a voice on the delivery average (32%). However there are notable disproportionately from deprivation, as well their families as one of the key responses of local services, policies and issues that affect variations within the city with higher levels in as other pockets generally in close proximity. needed to achieve the objectives of Healthy them in their local area. the four RAPID designated areas. At 3.5 deaths Over one quarter (29%) of the 519 small areas Ireland. Healthy Ireland recognises that early per 1,000 live births, infant mortality rates making up Cork City are defined as being intervention provides a greater rate of return Cork Children and Young People’s Services in the city are higher than the rates for Cork disadvantaged or very disadvantaged. than later intervention in terms of tackling Committee (Cork CYPSC) is newly established County (3.3) but on a par with the State (3.4). The four designated RAPID areas in the city inequality, reducing educational disadvantage and tasked with delivering a three year Children Between 2006 and 2011, the percentage of the have deprivation index scores of between -13.2 and improving child development. Healthy and Young People’s Plan. Work is currently population aged 15 or older that were classified and -16.6, significantly lower than both the city Ireland also makes a series of recommend- under way to gather and collate data, carry out as ‘unemployed or looking for their first regular (-1.9) and the State average (+0.24). ations specifically concerning children and an audit of service provision and complete a job’ grew from 6.3% to 12.1%. According to the young people, while establishing a number of local needs analysis. Cork City Comhairle na 2007 Children’s Occupation Study of Children related key performance indicators relating nÓg recently completed an information website in Cork City, boys and girls aged 5 to 8 spent to infant mortality, weight, smoking, alcohol, aimed at making an impact in the current youth 18% of their time during the week on play, with health status, early school leaving, and employment situation and improving youth 55% routinely playing outside after school. At prevention control and surveillance of employment prospects and services for young weekends significantly more boys than girls infectious diseases. people in Cork City. Other recent projects engaged in extra physical activities (e.g. soccer include ‘What Can I Do?’ a video exploring and cycling).

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Cork City features a varied mix of different older people, promote the inclusion of older HSE Community Health Services, HSE Health age of 36.1 State-wide. Cork City is third of all family stages by household, with a relatively people, value their contribution to community Promotion, Cork City Partnership, Ballyphehane administrative counties in relation to the pace even distribution of numbers across each life, respect their decisions and anticipate and Togher Community Development Project at which it is ageing. Reflective of the ageing category. The Adult Family type (those with respond flexibly to age related needs. (BTCDB), COLLAGE (UCC) and older people. nature of the city as a whole, 15% of those an oldest child of 20 years +) is most common The first meeting received a presentation by aged 15 or older have their principal economic accounting for 30% of the total families in the Age Friendly Ireland (formerly the Ageing Well Hugh O’Connor of the Ageing Well Network status classified as Retired from the workforce. city. Pre-school families (those with an oldest Network) established the Age Friendly Cities (now called Age Friendly Ireland) which was In 2010, the life expectancy for persons living child of 4 years) account for 9% and early and Counties Programme (AFCC) in 2007, based tasked to roll out Age Friendly Cities and in the city was 73.9 for males and 79.8 for school families (those with an oldest child of 8 on Louth’s participation in the World Health Counties throughout Ireland. females. This compares unfavourably to the years) for 8% of the total families in the city. Organisation’s Age Friendly City initiative and State averages of 76.9 for males and 81.7 for research. The programme adopts a common Following on from a city wide Older People’s females. process and structure, but it is intended to Conference in late 2013, the Cork Age Friendly be highly tailored to reflect the priorities of City Alliance was formed and has recently Cork City has an ageing population, with the 65+ older people and service providers in each city launched the first Cork Age Friendly City number of persons aged 65+ expected to be and county. Under the programme every local Strategy 2016-2020. This strategy is based one in four of the total population by 2050. Older People authority has its own Age Friendly programme on the outcomes of consultations with older There were 17,950 persons age 65+ living in involving an alliance of senior decision makers people in the City and will drive the actions Cork City in 2011, being an increase of 6.5% “I know before the night is out I shall and influencers across the public, private and needed for Cork City to become an Age Friendly City. from 2006. Nearly 30% of those aged 65+ in ask myself, as I have done many and voluntary sector. The Older Person’s Forum, Cork City live alone. Over 9% of those aged 15 many a night since I came back to live which is open to all older people and their or older are ‘Looking after the Home/Family’ in in this empty house: “Would I have lived organisations, developed through a series Older People - Stats and Facts the city. This category is highly gendered, with otherwise?” and though I may think long of public consultations. It exists in order to 16% of the total female population occupying over it, I know exactly how my ponderings represent the views of older people within the CORK CITY HAS AN AGEING this group and 1% are males. Cork City has a will end. I shall rise and lower the wick, Alliance. POPULATION, WITH THE significantly higher portion of persons aged and blow out the light, saying: “No! Not NUMBER OF PERSONS AGED 65+ (15% of the total population) compared to one single thing would I change!” The Cork City Healthy City Steering Group proved 65+ YRS PROJECTED TO BE the State (12%), with the south west of the to be the catalyst for Cork setting out on the ONE IN FOUR OF THE TOTAL city having even higher levels (21% of total Sean O Faolain: Bird Alone, p287 journey to become an Age Friendly City. In RESIDENT POPULATION IN 2050 population). March 2013, this steering group agreed to seek Age Friendly City Status for Cork, forming a At 21%, the Old Age Dependency Ratio of Cork Older People - Policy multi-agency working group to drive the process. City is significantly higher than the national average (17%), reflecting the ageing nature of The World Health Organisation (WHO) is the A meeting of inter-agency contacts formed a Cork City, where the amount of older people in driving force behind the global movement steering group (now the working group) to look proportion to the working age population is for age friendliness. The WHO defines an into achieving the Age Friendly City status. This high. The average age of persons in Cork City is “age-friendly” community as one in which all meeting was attended by representatives of 38.7, which represents an increase of over one stakeholders recognise the diversity among An Garda Síochána, Cork City Council, year since 2006. This compares with an average

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urgent provision of affordable and high-quality companies. Global Business Services and Economic Diversity - Stats and Facts childcare as being of critical importance to International Financial Services, such as BNY, assisting single parents and low-income Tyco, and Amazon, further add to Cork’s NEARLY 40% OF THE TOTAL Economic Diversity families’ access or return to the job market. economic strength and diversity. Cork’s strong JOBS IN CORK CITY IN 2011 technology sector includes over fifty FDI WERE PROVIDED BY ONE OF “Economic growth does not happen The IDA Horizon 2020 Strategy focuses on Technology. Overseas investment in the city 33 OF THE CITY’S LARGEST evenly. It proceeds in surges and pauses. attracting global services, high-end was further boosted throughout 2015 with EMPLOYERS. A regional centre is particularly attractive manufacturing and research and development a series of major investment announcements to inward investment during surges, and innovation. The IDA strategy includes including Apple’s addition of 1,000 employees In 2011, there were 4,331 businesses located in when the primary centre is most likely specific targets for inward investment to areas to their current 5,000 employee European HQ the city, providing 71,577 jobs (Source: Cork City to be experiencing high congestion costs.” outside of Dublin – including a target of 30- campus in Hollyhill, as well as the establish- Employment & Land Use Survey, 2011). 96% 40% increase in projects for Cork and Kerry. ment of global, European and EMEA HQs for of these businesses employed less than 50 Nicholas Mansergh; Atlas of Cork City The Department of Jobs, Enterprise and companies like Tyco, eSentire, Netigate and employees, with the remaining 4% employing (Eds. Crowley, Devoy, Linehan and O’Flanagan), Innovation’s (DJEI) Action Plan for Jobs (APJ) Malwarebytes. between 50 -4000 employees. However, 38% p432 2015 seeks to bring overall employment to 2.1 of jobs were provided by 33 employers (each million people by 2018 through supporting In order to achieve a sustainable enterprise with +250 employees). private sector- led, export-oriented economic base Cork’s strong track record in attracting Economic Diversity - Policy growth, through the delivery of 382 separate overseas investment must be balanced by a There were 55,328 persons in the labour force actions. Building on this, the Action Plan for similar growth of indigenous companies. in Cork City in 2011, representing 46.4% of its Ireland’s economy has markedly improved since Jobs for the South West 2015-2017 core aim is to The development of clusters such as it@cork, population. 30,323 of these are males and the height of the economic crisis and is now develop the full potential of the Cork and Kerry energy Cork and IMERC and increased links 25,005 are females. Over 26% of the labour experiencing a positive economic outlook. region, for enterprise and job creation, building between businesses and research centres are force living in the city are employed in The European Commission has estimated that upon its assets and areas of competitive all helping to enhance the performance of Professional Services, 23% work in Ireland will be the fastest growing economy in advantage. The primary objective of this Plan innovative local companies. Start- ups also Commerce and Trade, 9% in Transport and Europe in 2016, predicting GDP growth of 4.9% is to have a further 10 to 15 per cent at work in play an important role in economic recovery Communications and 5% are employed in compared to Eurozone average of 1.6% growth. the region by 2020 and to ensure the un- and Cork has a well developed business start up Public Administration. Manufacturing is the However, a series of persistent challenges are employment rate is within 1 per cent of the State ecosystem. In November entrepreneurs from third most common industry in the city, highlighted most notably the persistently high average. around the world will meet in Cork for the employing 14% of the working population. levels of long-term unemployed and the high Global Start-Up Nations Summit – the first The manufacturing industry has proved rate of youth unemployment. An ESRI Cork has a diverse economy with a high level of time this event has taken place in Europe. resilient, with the proportion of persons Research Bulletin, Impact of the Great Recession overseas investment - close to 150 overseas In addition, major new office and retail employed increasing by 56% since 2006. on Unemployed Youth and NEET Individuals, companies employ 28,500 people in Cork. Many developments in the City Centre, together indicates that young males and non-Irish of these companies are located in the city and with a sports stadium (under construction), The majority of Corks city’s resident workforce national youths are more likely to be surrounding Cork metropolitan area. The wider the recently commenced 6,000 seat events has non manual (30%), low professional (15%) unemployed since the economic crisis. Both this Cork region is home to seven of the world’s top centre and port redevelopment, all show that or employers and management (13%) report and the NESC report, Jobless Households: ten pharmaceutical companies and a Life Cork City is heavily contributing to Ireland’s occupations. More than half (61%) of the City’s An Exploration of the Issues, emphasise the Sciences sector comprising 35 overseas economic recovery. residents use private transport to get to work

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(car, van, etc.), with 9% using public transport. the Southern and Eastern Regional Operational The Local Enterprise Office, Cork City is central The majority of jobs located in Cork City are in Programme 2014-2020 and assistance for larger to supporting the development and growth of education (30%), retail, trade and sales (24%) SMEs through Enterprise Ireland. micro- enterprises in the city. The financial and IT & professional services (18%). The large supports, training and mentoring programmes Skills and Human Capital majority (77%) of people working in the City The recently established Local Enterprise Offices and services delivered through LEO Cork City use private transport (car, van, etc.) to get to (LEOs) within local authorities are becoming are significantly contributing to strengthening “At the beginning of the nineteenth work, with 6% using public transport. central to many local micro-enterprises and the the local start up and small business economy. century the Cork Institution extended small business sector. This is consistent with its objects. Its library was enlarged by a the government’s vision in Putting People First. valuable collection of scientific books, A particular challenge for the SME sector in Innovation - Stats and Facts the collection of minerals augmented, Ireland outlined by the European Commission and the agricultural section supplied Country Report Ireland 2015 is the current lack OVER 35% OF CORK CITY’S with models of the most approved Innovation of innovative activities and the insufficient LABOUR FORCE IN 2011 HAD instruments….Lectures were delivered commercialisation of research, with research A THIRD LEVEL EDUCATION during the greater part of the year on “To begin with, the city of Cork itself and development (R&D) spending mainly natural history, chemistry and agriculture formed a vital point of departure through coming from foreign multinationals. The quality of Cork City’s labour force is a factor by eminent scientists.” its very own specific locatedness, and in its success in attracting innovative new Michael Holland; ‘Cultural Associations in Cork’ through its creative activity, by which the Innovation 2020 is Ireland’s five year strategy companies. Over 35 % of the labour force had a in Cork City: Its History and Antiquities, p99 larger effects of globalisation could be on research and development, science and third level education in 2011, an overall growth refracted and re-envisoned.” technology which aims to develop Ireland as of 7.5%, from 2006, being higher than the a global innovation leader. Targets include national average for Gateways (4% in 2011). Skills and Human Capital – Policy Annie Fletcher in Cork Caucus: on art, doubling private investment in R&D to 2.5% Over 66% of households in Cork City had possibility and democracy, p11 performed in the public research system private broadband access in 2011, a growth of The European Commission’s Country Report and a 60% increase in the number of research 46% from 2006. This is above the average for Ireland 2015 highlighted the issue of skills personnel in enterprise. Cork City’s two higher all nine gateways (64%) and just below that for mismatches in the Irish labour market resulting Innovation - Policy education institutes are central to the all 27 EU Member States (67%). from the structural rebalancing of the national continued growth of research and innovation economy (particularly between the non- The European Commission’s Country Report in the city. University College Cork’s National Technology companies like to locate in clusters tradable and tradable sectors). The Commission’s Ireland 2015 notes the shortage of SME bank Tyndall Institute is a global leader in integrated which help in delivering a critical mass of report notes that the education and training and non- bank finance that will ultimately ICT research with over 450 researchers, opportunities to attract the best of system in Ireland faces challenges in re-skilling undermine investment in growth and job engineers, students and staff and over 200 international talent. The following clusters and up-skilling the population. To tackle this, creation if not addressed. Government industry partners globally. The Cork Institute of have recently emerged in Cork: Cyber security, a series of further education, training initiatives have been taken to diversify the Technology is home to several research centres Big Data and General Tech. In addition to an and apprenticeship reforms have been sources and types of funds available to SMEs, including NIMBUS which focuses on networked increasing number of ICT and financial services implemented or proposed by the government including the recent establishment of the embedded electronic systems. A strong marine companies, Cork continues to be home to many in recent years. The Further Education and Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland. Other cluster is being developed around wider Cork of the world’s leading pharmaceutical (e.g.Pfizer) Training Strategy 2014-2019 was recently potential emerging financial supports include harbour – the world’s second largest natural harbour. and biotech (e.g. Stryker) companies. adopted by the Further Education and Training

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Authority (SOLAS). This strategy seeks to Force Unemployment rate in Cork City in 2011 Transport Future: A strategic framework for priorities is the development of the N28 Cork to provide a roadmap and overarching framework was 22%, being above both the national (19%) investment in land transport, notes that the Ringaskiddy Road, critical to facilitating the to guide the transformation of the sector in and regional averages (20%). The northwest of number of people driving to work in Ireland redevelopment of the Port of Cork. The Port is developing a world-class integrated system of the city (30%) and north-central (28%) had the increased 140% between 1991 and 2011, with a the key seaport in the south of Ireland, with 11 further education and training. The Action Plan highest rates. The Labour Force Participation corresponding decrease in the combined modal million tonnes of traffic and bringing over for Jobs (APJ) 2015 and Better Outcomes, Rate (LFPR) in Cork City in 2011 was 54%, share of walking, cycling and public transport, 145,000 cruise passengers and crew to the Brighter Futures both elaborate a range of being below both the national (62%) and from 34% to 24%. Many of the trends and region in 2015. A €100 million upgrade to the education and skilled-related actions. The APJ regional averages (60%). The southwest arguments elaborated in Investing in Our Port of Cork will commence shortly which will is particularly focused on a ‘national talent of the city has the lowest LFPR (41%), Transport Future were anticipated in the future proof Cork as an international gateway drive’ aimed at increasing the numbers of reflecting its older age profile. DTTAS’s 2009 policy document, Smarter for trade. This will also facilitate the relocation ICT and science, technology, engineering Travel: A Sustainable Transport Future of port activities from the City centre, and free and maths (STEM) graduates by 2018. – A New Transport Policy for Ireland 2009-2020. up vital space around Cork’s City harbour and docklands area for development. Skills and Human Capital - Stats and Facts The recently formed Transport Infrastructure Ireland (TII) has merged the roles of the Access improvements currently underway at MORE THAN 15% OF THE Transportation and National Roads Authority (NRA) and the Rail Cork City’s Kent rail station will reorient access CITY’S 2014 LIVE REGISTER Communications Procurement Agency (RPA) in delivering away from the Lower Glanmire Road and OF UNEMPLOYMENT WERE transport infrastructure and services, which towards the City Centre with a new entrance UNDER 25 YRS OLD “Rivalling the activity on the quays and in contribute to the quality of life for the people on Horgan’s Quay. This will create a better link the harbour as a popular spectator sport of Ireland and support the country’s economic between the rail station and city centre and There is a distinct spatial pattern to was the tunnelling required to bring the growth. The National Transportation Authority bus station for pedestrians, cyclists and public unemployment levels in Cork City, with areas Great Southern and Western line to Cork, has a national role in helping to deliver more transport users. in the southwest and southeast having lower which lasted for eight years. The two sustainable transport patterns, publishing levels of unemployment. All four RAPID areas viaducts created by William Dargan, the guidance including “Achieving Effective The City Centre Movement Strategy 2012 is have higher levels of unemployment. In April engineer in charge of bringing Cork into Workplace Travel Plans – Guidance for Local a strategic plan to improve the transport 2014, there were 16,003 persons on the Live the emerging national grid, are still in use Authorities” and “School Travel Toolkit”. function of the City Centre over a 10 year Register in Cork City, with 2,332 under the age on the Cork-Mallow-Dublin line at period, with a focus on improving streets for of 25 (15% of the total Live Register). 1,444 Monard and Kilnap…” The national capital investment programme pedestrians and cyclists as well as improving

(62%) of this number were males and 888 Building on Recovery: Infrastructure and Capital the public transport system. Improvements Mary Leland; That Endless Adventure: A History (38%) were females. Examples of skills Investment 2016-2021 provides the best current are being undertaken by Cork City Council of the Cork Harbour Commissioners, p76 shortages which SOLAS (the State indication for future infrastructure investment in partnership with the National Transport organisation responsible for further education in Ireland. This €42 billion framework plan Authority. The vision for the Cork City Walking

and training) have identified in the Cork area includes the upgrading of vital infrastructure Strategy 2013-2018 is to make the city “...the Transportation and Communications - Policy include: Engineering, chemical, biological and such as public transport, roads environment most walkable city in Ireland, where people biochemistry scientists, cardiac and bio- and communication infrastructure to boost the choose to walk as the safe, healthy and An efficient and effective transport system is technology technicians and tool makers and competitiveness of Cork City and the wider attractive alternative to private transport.” critical to the wellbeing of the economy and fitters (high tech manufacturing). The Labour Cork region. One of the key investment The strategy sets out four focus areas that community. The DTTAS, in Investing in Our

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drive a series of initiatives and projects aimed SCHOOL OR COLLEGE, MORE People, Place and Policy: Growing tourism to at creating a walking network of high quality THAN DOUBLE THE NATIONAL 2025, emphasises the central role for Local streets and amenity routes that provide direct AVERAGE. Authorities in growing the local and tourism connections between places and spaces, Quality Of Place economy. encourage people to walk more, and create Of the 63,807 jobs located in Cork City in 2011, a healthy living city with strong communities “For him this is Cork. But for us it is only The Cork City Development Plan 2015-2021 over half (39,008) were held by employees in a good urban environment. ‘the flat of the city.’ What of the hill- is the spatial land use planning strategy living outside the city, mainly from Carrigaline sides? Go but three steps up any of those that provides a framework for the city’s (10%), Cobh (6%), Midleton (6%), Passage Cork Airport is the key gateway to the south old-time, wide-sweeping, treeless, cloud- development. Each of the plans’ seven West (5%) and Carrigtwohill (4%). Over 90% of Ireland and is the State’s second largest shadowed hills and you find yourself even strategic goals directly relate to delivering of these commuters travelled by car, taking on airport after Dublin. In 2014, it welcomed at midday in a silence that grows on you.” a high quality of place within the city. average 36 minutes to reach their destination. 2.1m passengers, with flights to 44 scheduled Specific objectives focus on a city with The number of workers in Cork City using public Daniel Corkery; The Threshold of Quiet, p3 destinations, and excellent links to three inclusive neighbourhoods supported by high transport, walking or cycling to their place of European hubs — London Heathrow, Paris quality residential, transport, recreational and employment (17%) is lower than the State Charles de Gaulle, and Amsterdam Schiphol. environmental infrastructure, the protection average (20%). However, the proportion of Direct flights to Boston and New York are Quality of Place - Policy and enhancement of the city’s archaeology, Cork City residents travelling to work, school or due to commence in 2017. natural, cultural and built heritage and college by foot or bicycle is 34%, being double The importance of creating a high quality of archaeology and the delivery of arts, culture, the national average. These statistics reflect The growth of cloud computing, data analytics place is reflected by the numerous national heritage and tourism infrastructure. Focus is both the concentrated nature and sustainable and other data intensive services means publications delivering a series of policies and given to the continued regeneration of the potential of the city and need for greater use that Tier I Telecoms connectivity is a key guidance on how best to deliver high quality city centre and the strategic expansion of the and investment in public transport infrastructural requirement for the retention urban areas, neighbourhoods and sustainable Docklands and designated District Centres infrastructure servicing the greater Cork region. and growth of Cork’s strong ICT cluster. communities. The Department of Environment, with their surrounding neighbourhoods. The recent landing of a new Tier 1 fibre cable Community and Local Government has Of the 63,807 jobs located in the city, 39% of from the US and other proposed subsea cables published a set of guidance documents Cork City is undergoing significant trans- employees live in the city and over 58% live in offers major opportunities to ensure the high including; Delivering Homes Sustaining formation with several major capital develop- the rest of County Cork. Just over 2% travel speed, lower cost international connectivity Communities (2007), Quality Housing for =ments and initiatives worth more than €300 from Waterford, Kerry, Limerick and Tipperary. needed to underpin the competitiveness of Sustainable Communities (2007), Sustainable million, currently underway and planned for the Of the 41,845 working persons living in Cork both Cork City and the wider Cork region. Urban Housing: Design Standards for New city. A major new retail development, together City, over 59% work in the city, 23% work in Apartments (2007), Sustainable Residential with the forthcoming events centre and the Cork county, over 6% are mobile workers and Development in Urban Areas (2009), Urban redeveloped sports stadium and port, will all less than 1 % work in Dublin, Kerry of Limerick. Transportation and Communications Design Manual A Best Practice Guide (2009), act as catalysts for the further redevelopment Between 2005 and 2012, there was an average - Stats and Facts Government Policy on Architecture (2009) and and regeneration of large parts of the city of 629 road collisions per annum in Cork City, Appropriate Assessment of Plans and Projects centre. The Cork City Centre Strategy 2014 with 87.3% being minor in nature. MORE THAN ONE IN THREE – Guidance for Planning Authorities (2009). identifies three delivery strategies for PEOPLE LIVING IN CORK CITY The Department of Transport, Tourism and improvingthe quality of place in the city: WALK OR CYCLE TO WORK, Sport’s (DTTAS) strategy for tourism growth, Firstly the improvement and development

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of public realm, services and key development Quality of Place – Stats and Facts 2020. CASP is the current manifestation of of sites and buildings for new enterprises and an integrated, non-statutory planning process activities. Secondly, a fresh approach to the CORK ATTRACTS NEARLY ONE which has been in place in Cork since 1978 with Competitiveness through management of the city based on a partnership IN FIVE OF THE TOTAL NUMBER the introduction of the Land Use and Strategic Governance of the key stakeholders. And thirdly, marketing OF OVERSEAS VISITORS WHO Transportation Study (LUTS). In that period, and branding the city centre. The City Council TRAVEL TO IRELAND a co-ordinated sub-regional planning approach “In 1772, in the fourth year of publication, adopted the first Cork City Centre Action Plan in has guided planning and development of the the Cork Hibernian Chronicle was June 2015 as a key step in implementing the City The significant levels of tourism in Cork City metropolitan Cork area through two recessions distributed by courier to twenty-six Centre Strategy. and the wider region reflect the social and and the transition from traditional industries towns: eighteen of these were in Co. Cork, economic importance of a high quality of place. (textiles, car manufacture, ship building) to five in Kerry (including Tralee and Dingle), “CORE” is a new city centre partnership which Cork attracts 18% of all overseas visitors who the current sectors of ICT, biopharma, medical and two in Co. Waterford (Tallow and was officially launched in April 2016 with a focus come to Ireland and is second only to Dublin in technologies, energy and international services. Lismore). The inhabitants of all those on creating opportunities, highlighting positive terms of tourist bed nights, with the average towns looked primarily to Cork as the developments and delivering new initiatives visitor to Cork spending €94.59 a day.8 In 2013, The Cork Smart Gateway has recently been economic centre; when trade was brisk in that create and promote a vibrant city centre. the Cork area generated a revenue of €433m established by Cork City Council, Cork County Cork city, times were good to a greater or Spearheaded by Cork City Council and local from 1.23 million international visitors and Council, Nimbus Research Centre and Tyndall lesser extent in every market town.” stakeholders including Cork Chamber, Cork €148m revenue from 740,000 domestic visitors. David Dickson; Old World Colony: Cork and South Munster 1630- 1830, National Institute to identify and deploy smart Business Association, An Garda Siochána, Bus This accounted for 12% of the total national xii. solutions to seize emerging opportunities, solve Éireann and representatives from hospitality revenue generated from international tourists regional challenges and enhance the reputation and retail sectors, CORE will take a collaborative and 10% from the domestic total9. of Cork as an attractive place to live, work, visit approach to the revitalisation of Cork City Centre. Competitiveness through Strategic and invest. The Smart Gateway will create a Two new projects have recently been approved Governance - Policy forum to allow these organisations to share Local community led initiatives are playing an for ERDF funding under the Designated Urban and collaborate together while also marketing increasingly significant role in improving the Centres Grants 2014 – 2020: the €3.5 million Local leadership and strategic governance the Cork region as a smart destination quality of place in the city. Re-imagine Cork Marina Park area, and the environmental are key elements in driving competitiveness internationally. is a community led initiative focused on enhancement of the Monahan Road link and and regional development. Successful transforming Cork’s laneways, urban green the €1.5 million Harley Street Pedestrian / Cycle economic regions are characterised by spaces and derelict buildings through direct Bridge, dedicated cycle and pedestrian bridge strong inter-agency collaborative partnerships Competitiveness through Strategic creative interventions. “Greening Cork’s Historic across the North Channel of the River Lee. which proactively drive strategies for Governance - Stats and Facts Spine” is a Cork Food Policy Council initiative A major flood defence scheme is due to economic growth. Stakeholders in Cork have focused on edible growing of foods at various commence work in 2017, to offer protection long recognised the importance of a strategic CORK CITY’S COMMERCIAL locations within the city and is an excellent from flooding to around 2,000 residential and approach. Published in 2001, Cork Area Strategic RENTAL COST ARE CURRENTLY example of a community driven initiative commercial properties in the wider city region. Plan (CASP) is a pioneering initiative led by Cork ESTIMATED AS BEING LESS making an immediate impact on the local built Knowledge and awareness of the built and City and County Councils and involving both THAN HALF THOSE OF DUBLIN environment of the city. cultural heritage of the city is vital in nourishing national and local stakeholders, which sets CITY FOR AN EQUIVALENT a sense of place in the city. The objectives and out a vision and strategy for the sustainable PROPERTY actions set out in the Cork City Heritage Plan development of the Cork City Region up to (2015-2020) are central to achieving this.

8 Source: Cork City Data, 2013 and Cork Visitor Survey 9 Source: Failte Ireland

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With 275,600 employed, the South Western The Cork City ELU Survey 2011 found a total Region accounts for 14% of total national of 4,331 employers in the city, providing 71,577 employment, 16% of national industry jobs. The vast majority of businesses (96%) in employment and a fifth of total national high- the City employ less than 50 employees, while a tech manufacturing employment. Cork is home small proportion (4%) employ between 50 and to 146 overseas companies that employ more 4000 employees. However 38% of the total jobs than 28,500 people. The City was voted no.1 in the City (27,300 jobs) are provided by just 33 small city for business friendliness in Europe, employers, each having 250 or more employees. by FDI Magazine in 2014/2015.

Cork City is a significant centre for 3rd level education with one of the country’s leading Universities (UCC) and a major Institute of Technology (CIT). Annually the City caters for a full and part-time 3rd level student population of over 33,000. UCC and CIT graduated over 2,100 under-grads and 688 post-grads in STEM related subjects in 2014-2015. UCC’s National Tyndall Institute is a global leader in integrated ICT research, having over 220 industry global partners and is home to over 450 researchers, engineers, students and support staff from 38 different countries.

A population of approximately 520,000 persons live within 60kms of Cork Airport with over 1.2 million living within a 90-minute drive. Commercial rental costs in Cork (per sq. ft.) are less than half the price of Dublin for an equivalent property. Residential rental costs in Cork are on average over 30% lower than Dublin, with residential property prices being notably lower when comparing similar areas of both cities10.

10 Source: “Why Cork? Why now? “Report (JCD & PWC) 2015

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Overview Goals, Objectives and Actions The remainder of this section of the plan sets out the objectives and actions under each of the 15 High Level Goals. The LECP adopts a three staged approach to implementation, with the objectives The 15 High Level Goals (HLGs) that initiated the plan making process, form and actions fully reviewed every two years. A more detailed two year working action plan will drive the framework for this action plan. Each of the HLGs is realised though a series the implementation of these three phases. of strategic objectives that are driven by local actions. This ensures the action Each objective will be achieved through the implementation of a series of actions. Contacts for each plan is more focused and easier to understand, implement and monitor. action are listed. While no lead partners have been identified at this stage, the final implementation plan will look to have a lead partner for each action.11

What types of actions can be implemented? Housing

This LECP is a multiagency plan, while also being a community action plan and an economic action Clearly identify and plan responses to a range of housing issues experienced in plan. Given this, there are a number of ways in which the plan’s actions can be implemented. Cork City to strengthen the economic and community development of the city. The nature of the action depends on the stage at which the action is at and the operational capabilities of relevant stakeholders involved in implementing that action. The diagram below gives an overview of the mixed nature of actions within this plan. The actions cover a broad spectrum, Objective Actions Contact Action with some currently being implemented, while others are very much at concept stage. (Partners) Ref. No

Develop a multi-agency Support the delivery of; Cork City Council, Cork County 1.1 response to deliver actions Council, Social Housing to address current public and • The Residential Delivery providers, Government private housing need at local Strategy Departments and Private Monitor level. • Joint Cork City and County sector Deliver Implement Housing Strategy • Social Housing Strategy 2020 • Horizon 2020 Strategy

Support the Social Housing Cork City Council and the 1.2 Co-ordinate Lobby Forum to facilitate social Social Housing Forum. housing issues.

Share and promote information Cork City Council, CETB, HSE, 1.3 on supports available to all and Social Housing forum. CORK CITY LECP 2016–2021 applicants for social housing, MONITORING AND IMPLEMENTATION especially young and older population.

Continue to support and deliver Cork City Council, HSE, Social 1.4 appropriate housing models Housing Forum. Research Support for persons leaving treatment centres, prison, mental health facilities.

Continue to support Cork City Council, HSE, Social 1.5 Develop Investigate interagency approach to Housing Forum. Traveller accommodation and Resource Grab strengthen this process to continue to ensure culturally appropriate housing, at an appropriate level in the City, Figure 8: A sample of how LECP actions can be implemented considering all communities.

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Objective Actions Contact Action Healthy City (Partners) Ref. No To ensure Cork is a healthy city that connects to improve the health and well- Build and support positive Provide Tenancy support and Cork City Council and Social 1.6 social behaviour in social training to Social Housing Housing Forum/stakeholders. being of all its people, reduces health inequalities and recognises the need for housing tenants on their rights and a holistic approach to health and well being. responsibilities

Develop a holistic approach to Provide supports to build Cork City Council, Cork 1.7 tackle homelessness. capacity of homeless young Homeless Network, CETB, and adults to participate in HSE. Objective Actions Contact Action education, training or (Partners) Ref. No employment, as a pathway out of homelessness. Support the Healthy Cities Implement the actions in the HSE, Cork City Council, 2.1 Strategy Healthy Cities Strategy. LCDC, CETB, UCC, CIT, Cork Continue to support the Cork City Council, Cork 1.8 Smart Gateway and other following projects that address Homeless Network, Focus City Stakeholders. youth homelessness in the city: Ireland and other homeless service providers in the city. Incorporate and support the LCDC, HSE, Cork City 2.2 • Cork Foyer implementation of the Healthy Council, CETB, UCC, • Sophia Housing Project Cities initiative as a central role CIT, and other City • Youth Homeless Prevention for the LCDC. Stakeholders. Worker • Youth homeless Forum Support the development of LCDC, HSE , Cork City 2.3 Support the prioritisation of Cork City Council, Cork 1.9 the Healthy Campus initiative Council, CETB, UCC, appropriate social housing Homeless Network, CETB, and in St. Finbarr’s Hospital and St. CIT, and other City supports to homeless, including: HSE. Mary’s Campus Stakeholders. Continue to support the Support the delivery of the HSE, Irish Cancer Society, 2.4 • Cork City Council’s scheme of development of Cancer following: the Cork Cancer Action letting priorities, including prevention and early detection Group and other relevant vulnerable housing programmes, initiatives and • A collaborative community bodies. • Cork City Council’s Tenancy research in Cork City and region project on cancer prevention Sustainment Scheme and early detection in Cork Support the Cork Homeless Homeless service providers in 1.10 • A Local Action plan for cancer Forum as a multi-agency the city. prevention and early detec- approach to addressing tion and associated research homelessness in the city. • An information tool to inform Continue to support the work of Cork City Council, DSP, Tusla, An 1.11 local communities on preven- the Cork Homeless Forum in Garda Siochana, HSE, Mental tion and early detection. addressing homelessness in the Health Services and other city. homeless service providers in Support capacity building at HSE, Irish Cancer Society, 2.5 the city. local level to tackle issues of the Cork Cancer Action Develop strong communities Investigate and support the Cork City Council, Housing 1.12 inequality in relation to cancer Group and other relevant with a focus on disadvantaged regeneration of areas of Agency, RAPID and other City prevention and early detection bodies. areas/communities disadvantage in the city. Stakeholders. in Cork City. Implementation of the ‘Cork City Cork City Council, Housing 1.13 Support Health Action Zones Promote positive mental well HSE, RAPID, CCP, CETB, 2.6 Northwest Regeneration Agency, RAPID and other City being and promote physical UCC Masterplan & Implementation Stakeholders. activity across all age ranges Report’ (adopted by Cork City and all population groups. Council 14th November 2011), including the delivery of the Support the reduction level HSE, Irish Cancer Society, 2.7 tenure diversity review of consumption of alcohol in the Cork Cancer Action recommendations, social, Cork City over the next 6 years, Group and other relevant economic and environmental including the implementation bodies. interventions. of the Cork City Alcohol Develop a strategic plan for Cork City Council, Housing 1.14 Strategy. housing people with disabilities. Agency and other City Stakeholders. Support the delivery of Incorporate and support the Cork City Council, Housing 1.15 appropriate smart technologies delivery of appropriate smart Agency and other City within the City’s housing stock building technologies in new Stakeholders, Cork Smart build houses and when Gateway retrofitting the existing housing stock in the City. 72 73

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Objective Actions Contact Action Objective Actions Contact Action (Partners) Ref. No (Partners) Ref. No

Support the implementation LCDC, HSE, CLDATF 2.8 Support the Cork City Sports Support the implementation Cork Sports Partnership, 2.17 of the Cork/Kerry Alcohol and other relevant city Partnership of the “Cork Sports Partnership Cork City Council and other Reduction Strategy 2015 stakeholders Plan”, 2015-2021 within the city. city stakeholders. Investigate the feasibility of HSE, Cork Healthy Cities, 2.9 the creation a tobacco free Cork Cancer Action city, including pilot project that Network and other City builds on existing community Stakeholders health projects such as the Strengthen and promote Investigate the development of Cork City Council, Cork 2.18 “we can quit” programme in Cork’s Maritime and heritage a Maritime centre to promote Healthy Cities, EcCoWell Ballyphehane/Togher and activities by achieving the Cork greater use of the river in the and HSE. Mayfield communities. Tourism Strategy (2016) vision City. to become “Ireland’s Maritime To increase suicide Roll out the suicide prevention Healthy Cities, HSE, CETB, 2.10 Paradise” Investigate the development Cork City Council, Cork 2.19 awareness in Cork City action plan for Cork City and UCC, CIT, Pieta Cork and of a Maritime City Strategy City Heritage Forum, and County, that implements other City Stakeholders. to promote tourism and Community Groups. relevant actions set out in employment around river based “Connecting for Life”, the new activities in the City. national strategy to reduce suicide 2015-2020 Investigate the feasibility of a Cork City Council and 2.20 City Maritime festival with links Community Groups. To continue to work in HSE Resource Officer 2.11 between river activities and on- partnership with other for Suicide Prevention, shore river bank activities. statutory agencies, voluntary HSE Community Work and community partners to Department and other Create a better quality of life Review the existing Cork Cork City Council and 2.21 enhance the existing facilitation voluntary agencies and for city residents. Recreational Needs Study other relevant community of Suicide Prevention Education groups throughout Cork (2003) and Cork City Parks groups. and Training Programmes to City. Strategy (2000). empower the people of Cork Identify and support greater Cork City Council, Cork 2.22 with skills to become more alert recreational amenities in the Smart Gateway and to the signs of suicide risk. city, including integrated Community groups. To continue in the provision HSE Resource Officer 2.12 walking and cycling links and of support and information to for Suicide Prevention, local parks, through the review individual and communities HSE Community Work of the Cork Recreational Needs affected by suicide. Department and other Study (2003). voluntary agencies and Source funding for the Cork City Council, CETB, 2.23 groups throughout Cork development of multi-agency HSE, Health Action Zone City. activity camps for children and Project, Community To build awareness of the link HSE Resource Officer 2.13 young people. Groups, Cork Sports between alcohol and drug for Suicide Prevention, Partnership and other. misuse and increased suicidal HSE Community Work Support the delivery of EPA, Cork City Council 2.24 behaviour via a Mental Health Department and other appropriate air monitoring and other appropriate Toolkit. voluntary agencies and procedures in the city to help stakeholders groups throughout Cork achieve better air quality. City.

Support the Cork Local Drugs Develop engagement and LCDC and other City 2.14 and Alcohol Task Force Strategy create links with the CLDATF. Stakeholders. (CLDATF)

Support the Cork Food Policy Develop a food strategy for the Cork Food Policy 2.15 Council’s Strategy city in partnership with relevant Council and other City stakeholders and enable Stakeholders. organisations in the city to transform their food culture.

Continue to support and expand Cork City Council, Cork 2.16 the empowerment of people to Food Policy Council and grow and cultivate their own other City Stakeholders. food locally within the city.

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Objective Actions Contact Action Community Participation (Partners) Ref. No To integrate communities and community and voluntary groups into decision Support the role of Cork City Council, CETB, 2.25 creativity and the arts by: HSE, Community Groups, making and to promote civic participation and community engagement. Cork Sports Partnership, • Continuing to invest in a Suisha Inclusive Arts / strong festival offering across Cope Foundation and other. the city that creates positive Objective Actions Contact Action citizen engagement, builds (Partners) Ref. No pride of place and offers creative opportunities for all. Enhance and affirm the PPN as Support, resource and actively Cork City Council, Community 3.1 • Supporting the arts and a key vehicle to represent social engage with the Cork City PPN Sector and LCDC. cultural sector to offer a wide inclusion, community, voluntary to encourage and increase city range of experiences for all. and environmental interests. wide engagement in the • Invest in appropriate Arts in economic and community life of Health programmes with the city. relevant partners. Support the PPN to connect Cork City Council, Community 3.2 community groups with other Sector and LCDC. Advance and support the Continue to establish new and Cork City Council, HSE, 2.26 community and economic development and well-being of innovative ways of working Community Groups, Cork groups active in the city and people with disabilities through with people with disabilities, by Smart Gateway, Suisha within their own participation in all creative and working with local and national Inclusive Arts / Cope neighbourhoods. recreational activities. partners. Foundation and other appropriate stakeholders. Support the PPN in developing Cork City Council, Community 3.3 focused linkage groups that Sector and LCDC. inform the future community and economic development of Work with local partners in Cork City Council, HSE, 2.27 the city. developing a network of arts Community Groups, Suisha and disability practitioners. Inclusive Arts / Cope Build the capacity of Deliver, support and promote Cork City Partnership, PPN, 3.4 Foundation and other community groups and training and education on Cork City Council, HSE SHEP, appropriate stakeholders. voluntary organisations on capacity building to community CESCA, Cork participation and community groups and voluntary Smart Gateway and other Support the implementation of Support projects and initiatives Cork City Council, Cork 2.28 activism to enable communities organisations on participation relevant City stakeholders National Physical Activity Plan that promote active travel as County Council, HSE, LSP to better participate in and community activism. for Ireland an everyday mode of transport and other relevant city decision- making. by people across their lifespan stakeholders. Support the continued input of HSE, PPN, RAPID, CESCA, 3.5 and of all abilities. community and business Cork City Partnership and organisations, and especially other relevant City new organisations, to enable stakeholders them participate in decision- making at a local level.

Support the work of the Cork Support and promote the Cork Volunteer Centre, Cork 3.6 Volunteer Centre provision of a placement service City Council, PPN and other matching volunteers, with city stakeholders. organisations delivering community projects in the city.

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Objective Actions Contact Action Safe and Green City (Partners) Ref. No

Make consultation in the Through the PPN, ensure any PPN and City stakeholders 3.7 To ensure Cork is a safe and green city with a secure and sustainable city easily accessible to all consultation in the city is easily LCDC. environment in which to live, work and play. community groups. accessible to community groups and encourages the delivery of participatory decision making. Objective Actions Contact Action Develop more accessible Cork City Council, Cork Smart 3.8 (Partners) Ref. No services through web based Gateway Initiative, CCTv and applications and other Smart LCDC. Co-ordinate and deliver Support the implementation of Cork City Council, Gardai, 4.1 City initiatives (such as a safe city. the JPC Strategy and structures business, community and other community television) in including Local Policing Fora stakeholders in the city. tandem with traditional (LPF) and Community Safety methods of communications Fora. (newspapers, newsletters, Investigate and support the Gardai and LCDC. 4.2 etc.). delivery of increased levels of Promote the Citizens LCDC, Cork Smart Gateway 3.9 appropriate security in the city. Information Service as a means and Citizens Information Investigate the feasibility of Gardai, Cork City Council 4.3 for increasing awareness of Service. auditing the safety of and LCDC. information services and problematic public spaces in the advocacy. city. Increase public, business and Actively promote and PPN, Cork City Council, LCDC, 3.10 Support the development of HSE, Gardai, Cork City Council 4.4 community participation in key encourage civic participation in HSE, community and business initiatives for access services and LCDC. city events and festivals. city strategies, events and stakeholders and other city and disposal of drug using festivals. stakeholders. paraphernalia for chaotic drug users. Support the implementation of Support the delivery and Suisha Inclusive Arts / Cope 3.11 Improve pedestrian Deliver a Walking Strategy for Cork City Council, HSE, and 4.5 actions that allow Cork City and implementation of a strategic Foundation, UCC, CIT, HSE, and cycling life in the city the city. Community Groups. region to become a European plan for inclusive arts in Cork ETB, TUSLA, Cork City Council, Centre for Excellence for City and the wider region Cork County Council and other Continue to pursue greater use Gardai and City Council. 4.6 Inclusive Arts through: relevant stakeholders. and development of cycle ways within the City and wider Region. • Participation and expression Continue to support the Cork Cork City Council, Smarter 4.7 • Education and accessibility Walks project. Travel, Failte Ireland. • Innovation and Technology Improve the lighting Investigate the feasibility of Cork City Council, Cork Smart 4.8 • Branding and Development of public spaces in the city delivering a City wide lighting Gateway Gardai and Establishment of a network to Suisha Inclusive Arts / Cope 3.12 strategy. Community Groups. share, learn and work with each Foundation, UCC, CIT, HSE, Improve access to physical Research the needs of Cork City Cork City Council, HSE, CYPSC, 4.9 other and help deliver Cork City ETB, TUSLA, Cork City Council, spaces in the city for young youth networks and young Comhairle na nÓg, Community as a European Centre for Cork County Council and other people (green spaces, youth people in relation to physical Groups. Excellence for Inclusive Arts. relevant stakeholders. cafes, etc.) spaces (green spaces, youth cafes, etc.) in the city. Investment, development and Suisha Inclusive Arts / Cope 3.13 Make the city friendly for young Cork City Council, Gardai, 4.10 rebranding of the Irish Foundation and other City people by providing secure Comhairle na nÓg and Performing Arts / Include Stakeholders. physical spaces. Community Groups. Festival - to create an agreed, Actively pursue Green City Support the improvement of Cork City Council, Cork Smart 4.11 coordinated and integrated Status by 2021 green initiatives in the city that Gateway, Cork Environmental festival celebrating creativity, will aim to achieve the Green City Forum, HSE, and Community diversity and inclusion. Status. Groups. Facilitate and support the Support and actively engage Cork City Heritage Forum, Cork 3.14 Support and promote the Cork City Council, Cork Energy 4.12 voluntary work of Heritage with heritage groups and City heritage groups/ implementation of the Cork City Agency, Cork Smart Gateway, groups and organisations in organisations to promote the organisations, museums and Climate Change Strategy. Cork Environmental Forum, and Cork City and Research the work that is done and libraries, 3rd level educational Community and Business development of a volunteer encourage new membership. facilities, Cork volunteer Groups. programme for Heritage related Work with local and national centre. Support the implementation of OPW, Cork City Council, Cork 4.13 work in Cork City partners in developing a appropriate flood relief County Council, Cork network of suitably qualified measures that actively address Environmental Forum, and volunteers who could assist in current and future flooding in Community and Business implementing heritage the city. Groups. projects.

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Objective Actions Contact Action Social Economy (Partners) Ref. No To ensure the vibrant social economy sector is supported and enhanced. Support the implementation of Cork City Council, Cork Energy 4.14 Energy management initiative Agency, Cork Smart Gateway, in the city. Cork Environmental Forum, and Community and Business Objective Actions Contact Action Groups. (Partners) Ref. No Actively co-ordinate and support Support and co-ordinate the Cork City Council, Cork Smart 4.15 Develop an Inter-agency Social Deliver and support an LCDC, Cork City Council, HSE 5.1 the delivery of a safe and green delivery of an accessible city Gateway , PPN, Cork age Enterprise Strategy to support inter-agency group to develop and relevant stakeholders city accessible to all. through information sharing friendly alliance and disability the retention and expansion of a Social Enterprise Strategy. and promotion. groups. existing social enterprises and Deliver and support a Social LCDC, Cork City Council and 5.2 Ensure the location, design and Cork City Council, Cork Smart 4.16 the development of new social Enterprise Development Co- relevant stakeholders maintenance of spaces in the Gateway , PPN, Cork age enterprises ordinator/animator for the City city are accessible to all and in friendly alliance and disability and a Multi-Agency forum to line with current best practice. groups drive the delivery and Develop a themed approached HSE, Cork City Council, CESCA, 4.17 implementation of a social to suicide and safety in the Gardai, and other relevant enterprise strategy. community. Community Groups. Co-ordinate the delivery of a Cork City Council, Cork CETB, 5.3 Improve and increase the Support the delivery of edible Cork Food Policy Council, Cork 4.18 study on the economic and social Clann Credo, Cork City accessibility and visibility growing initiatives in appropriate City Council, the edible growing impact and benefits of the social Partnership, UCC, CIT, LCDC, of food growing in the city locations in the city. team, local residents economy (including Community Social Enterprises Managers associations and other relevant Employment) in Cork City and its Network. stakeholders. potential to expand. Support the implementation To support the continued Cork City Council 4.19 Raise awareness among the LCDC, Cork City Council and 5.4 of best practice Bio-diversity delivery of the Biodiversity Plan private, public and community relevant stakeholders in the City actions incorporated into the sector of the benefits of the Cork City Heritage Plan 2015- social economy sector and 2020 and any subsequent review promote the use of social of this plan. economy champions for Cork City. Increase linkages between Cork City Council, CETB, Cork 5.5 private sector employers and City Partnership, and other social and community relevant stakeholders. enterprises and activities in the City in order to increase the impacts of social economy.

Evaluate Boomerang LCDC, Cork Smart Gateway 5.6 Enterprises and explore its and relevant stakeholders. potential to be rolled out nationally and extended to other forms of re-use.

Raise awareness of the Clann Credo and Cork City 5.7 supports, specialist knowledge Council. and funding sources available to develop social enterprises within marginalised communities.

Support initiatives for specific Support and develop a city HSE, Cork City Council, CETB, 5.8 groups that face challenges, wide inter-agency group to Cork City Partnership, and such as young people, promote the employment other relevant stakeholders. Travellers, homeless, Roma, of Young people, Travellers, people with disabilities, lone Homeless, Roma, People with parents, and new communities. Disabilities, lone parents and new communities including a mentoring programme.

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Objective Actions Contact Action Objective Actions Contact Action (Partners) Ref. No (Partners) Ref. No

Promote the availability of any Clann Credo and Cork City 5.9 Support initiatives that bring all Support Learning City Cork City Council, CETB, UCC, 6.5 community and business Council. stakeholders in education and Seminars, Round Tables CIT and GLLiC. financial supports that can learning together and Conferences, including develop social enterprises International Learning City within marginalised Exchange Opportunities. communities. Support integration and Cork SMART Gateway, 6.6 Provide employment Continue to develop and Cork City Council, HSE and 5.10 linking between projects Lifetime Lab, BCO, Coder opportunities for artists and support opportunities for Community Groups. with a learning dimension Dojo, Music Generation strengthen arts organisations artists working in the area of and Learning City structures, Cork City, Arts in Education delivering programmes in early years. partners and strategies. organisations, iWish. community settings. Leverage resources to support Cork City Council, IBEC, 5.11 Support the development and Support the Lifelong Learning CETB, Cork City Council, UCC, 6.7 arts organisations in delivery of Business stakeholders, HSE, strengthening of the Cork Festival Development Plans. CIT, HSE, Colleges, Community community based programmes. CETB, and Community Lifelong Learning Festival Education Groups, Festival stakeholders. Partners, Sponsors, CLLF Organising Committee, EcCoWeLL.

Support the development and Support the expansion of the CETB, UCC, CIT, Cork City 6.8 strengthening of the Learning Learning Neighbourhoods Council, RAPID ABC and Neighbourhoods programme initiative to encourage wider Community Groups. Education And Learning participation in lifelong learning. To support the culture of learning in Cork by promoting lifelong learning, access Support Community Education Actively promote and resource CETB, Community Groups, 6.9 to education for all and skills development. Networks and Forum Community Education CCP, City Stakeholders (LCDC), Networks to provide co- HSE, HSCL, CLLF, EcCoWeLL. ordinated accessible education and training opportunities for Objective Actions Contact Action all ages. (Partners) Ref. No Support the Cork Community CETB, Community Groups, 6.10 Create a better quality of life Support inter-agency and cross RAPID ABC, EcCoWeLL, HSE, 6.1 Education Forum Strategic Plan CCP, City Stakeholders (LCDC), for city residents by Integrating sector integration initiatives. Cork and Actions. HSE, HSCL, CLLF, EcCoWeLL. all Initiatives and Actions where Smart Gateway, Cork City possible. Council SPCs. Support strategies developed Support Access strategies of UCC, CIT, CETB FE Colleges, 6.11 by educational partners to Higher and Further Education HEA increase access to higher Colleges in the City. National Access Office, Support the UNESCO Learning Support and promote the Cork City Council, HSE, CETB, 6.2 education in communities with CCP, HSCL, NEWB, TUSLA, City Project and Strategy implementation of the Cork UCC, CIT and GLLiC. low participation levels NAPD, Community Education UNESCO Learning City Strategy Networks. and Actions.

Work with UNESCO Institute Cork City Council, HSE, CETB, 6.3 Develop a city higher education UCC, CIT, CETB FE Colleges, 6.12 of Lifelong Learning and the UCC, CIT and GLLiC. access strategy towards HEA Global Network of Learning making education accessible National Access Office, HSCL, Cities GNLC towards the for all through an inter-agency NEWB, TUSLA, NAPD. achievement of a UNESCO group. designation of Cork as a City of Learning. Support inter-agency projects Support the sustainability and Cork City Music Education 6.13 that seek to make access to expansion of Music Generation Partnership and Steering Support the Learning City Cork City Council, CETB, HSE, 6.4 arts education available to all. Cork City in providing Music Group members, Music Working Group GLLiC - Growing UCC, CIT, CLLF, Healthy Cities, Learning access for all young Generation Cork City, Cork Lifelong Learning in Cork - Learning Neighbourhoods, people. CETB, Cork City Council, HSE, strategy and actions. CEF, Cork Opera House, CIT, UCC, CCP, Community Industry partners, EcCoWeLL, Music Education Partner HSE, Music Generation, Cork Providers. SMART Gateway, community education groups and other partners.

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Objective Actions Contact Action Objective Actions Contact Action (Partners) Ref. No (Partners) Ref. No

Support the Cork Music Cork City Music Education 6.14 Support initiatives that Link with initiatives that LifetimeLab, BCO, iWish, Cork 6.21 Education Partnership Partnership members, Music promote increased participation promote STEAM, develop City Council, Coder Dojo, it@ strategy and plans. Generation Cork City, Cork in STEAM opportunities and new methods Cork, CETB, FMAC, Arts CETB, Cork City Council, HSE, for increasing participation in Council and CCAD. CIT, UCC, CCP, Community Science Technology Engineering Music Education Partner Arts and Maths, particularly by Providers. under-represented young people. Investigate opportunities to Arts Council, HSE, Cork City 6.15 transfer the Music Generation Arts Department, Music Support the use of focussed Support the increased use of UCC, CARL, CIT, GLLiC. 6.22 Cork City model into other areas Generation Cork City and other research and evaluation as a appropriate third level research of arts provision and arts relevant stakeholders means of developing and and evaluation capacity education in the city. enhancing inclusive education including UCC CARL initiatives. programme, similar research Support strategies developed Support inter-agency initiatives HSCL, NEWB, TUSLA, HSE, 6.16 initiatives in CIT and elsewhere. by inter-agency partners to that target increased and CETB, UCC, CIT, CCP, DSP, tackle educational enhanced participation by Colleges, RAPID Support creative learning Support the strategies, plans Cork City Childcare Co., CETB, 6.23 disadvantage target groups in mainstream ABC and Community Groups, opportunities for 0 to 3 year and actions of early years Cork City Council, HSE, Tusla, education focussed on groups TVG, Nasc, Welcome English, olds and enhance early year’s education and childcare UCC, CIT, Colleges, and among the following: Disability Education Network education and learning. organisations. Community Groups. and FMAC. • Travellers Support and expand the BEAG Cork City Council, HSE, Tusla, 6.24 • People with disabilities Early Years Arts Development CETB, UCC, Cork City Childcare • Migrants without English as a project. Co., NICHE, and CIT. first language Support and expand the Young Cork City Council, HSE, Tusla, 6.25 • Young unemployed adults Knocknaheeny and Happy Talk Cork City Childcare Co., NICHE • Roma programme and other similar Young Knocknaheeny, CETB, • Homeless initiatives. CCP, UCC, CIT. Support DEIS and other school HSCL, NEWB, TUSLA, CETB, 6.17 Support the expanded use Enhance the experience and Cork City Council, Arts Office, 6.26 programmes and initiatives UCC, CIT, CCP, DSP, Colleges, of the arts and creativity engagement of artists with HSE, Tusla, CETB, UCC, Cork that are targeted at educational RAPID ABC and Community programmes to engage with disabilities and support the City Childcare Co., and CIT, CCP, disadvantage. Groups, TVG, NASC, Welcome socially excluded groups. participation of arts and Community Arts Groups, English, Disability Education disability organisations to FMAC. Network. participate in the lifelong learning festival, EcCoWeLL Support the integration and CETB, HSCL, NEWB, TUSLA, 6.18 and UNESCO City of Learning development of a network of UCC, CIT, DSP, Colleges, RAPID actions. English Language schools and ABC and Community Groups, Support the Cork City Libraries Deliver the objectives and Cork City Council. 6.27 colleges, with a particular focus TVG, NASC, Welcome English. Service actions set out in the Cork City on English language provision Strategy for Public Libraries for social inclusion. 2013-2017. Support the development and CETB, DSP, Cork City Council, 6.19 Promote the awareness of Cork City Council. 6.28 sustainability of the ACCESS Industry partners, HSCL, libraries as centres for Initiative for young NEWB, TUSLA, CETB, UCC, community development, unemployed. CIT, CCP, learning and interaction at a Colleges, RAPID ABC and local level within the City. Community Groups. Support the implementation of Develop a heritage research Cork City Council, 3rd level 6.29 Develop stronger links with CETB, DSP, Cork City Council, 6.20 the objectives under Goal 3 of plan with existing 3rd level education bodies, heritage employers for young people Industry partners, HSCL, the Cork City Heritage Plan to educational bodies. groups and organisations, undertaking training NEWB, TUSLA, CETB, UCC, “Support education research Schools. programmes, to enhance CIT, CCP, and training” employment prospects by Colleges, RAPID ABC and Support the provision of Cork City Council, 3rd level 6.30 allowing them to gain valuable Community Groups. heritage training to education bodies, heritage work experience. communities. Promote groups and organisations, heritage in the schools. Schools.

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Social Inclusion and Equality Objective Actions Contact Action (Partners) Ref. No To reduce the marginalisation of specific communities within the city, taking into account the nine grounds and socio economic status. Set up an Equality Sub- HSE, LCDC and other 7.10 committee to strengthen the stakeholders in the City LCDC’s contribution to equality and social inclusion via Objective Actions Contact Action mechanisms such as SICAP and (Partners) Ref. No other government programmes delivered through LCDCs.

Promote and support Social Provide a forum for facilitating LCDC 7.1 Co-ordinate a Cork Equality Day CESCA, HSE, LCDC and Cork 7.11 Inclusion and Equality inter- and overcoming any barriers in (a CESCA initiative), building to City Partnership agency initiatives in the city the delivery of all Social a weeklong Equality Festival through the LCDC. Inclusion and Equality through the life span of the strategies in the City. LECP.

Support and monitor LCDC, CCP 7.2 Continue to implement the Establish a new RAPID Area Cork City Council, Cork County 7.12 the SICAP programme RAPID programme; targeting Based Committee structure. Council, HSE, CETB, An Garda Continue to support the Support the work of the Traveller’s inter-agency group, 7.3 the most disadvantaged Siochana, Cork City Traveller community in the City Traveller’s Inter-agency Cork ETB, HSE and LCDC. communities in the City. Partnership and other local Strategy, including the: stakeholders and City bodies Continue to deliver the Cork City Council, Cork County 7.13 • The Traveller Education community wardens and Council, HSE, CETB, An Garda Sub-group community grants services. Siochana, Cork City • The Traveller Cultural Partnership and other local Awareness Group stakeholders and City bodies.

To fully develop the potential of Promote a culture of anti- Cork City Council, NASC, Cork 7.14 Support the participation HSE, Cork City Council, 7.4 Cork as a diverse, inclusive and discrimination in Cork City by City Partnership, CESCA, LCDC of the Traveller Community in Traveller’s inter-agency group multi-cultural city. developing a clear strategy, and NCP. all structures that impact their and other relevant bodies. action and monitoring plan for lives, health and wellbeing the integration of ethnic including the promotion of minority communities, traveller culture and support including robust anti for Traveller Pride Week. discrimination and equality Support the work of the Local HSE, Traveller’s inter-agency 7.5 measures. Traveller Accommodation group and LCDC. Develop targeted measures and Cork City Council, NASC, Cork 7.15 Committee. supports to address the needs City Partnership, CESCA, LCDC Promote LGBT Support LGBT Inter-agency HSE, LCDC and other 7.6 of particularly vulnerable ethnic and NCP. equality in Cork City group. stakeholders in the City. minority groups - such as Asylum Seekers, The Roma Continue to promote and HSE, LCDC and other 7.7 Community and Migrant support delivery of LGBT stakeholders in the City. Women. Awareness week amongst Public Sector bodies and State Promote the delivery of Cork City Council, NASC, City 7.16 Agencies. festivals and awareness events Partnership, CESCA, LCDC, Continue to develop links with HSE, LCDC and other 7.8 on specific communities/issues NCP, CCTv and FMAC. Cork Pride and deliver an LGBT stakeholders in the City. to wider city population, e.g. Festival annually. Africa Day, Diversity Days etc.

Promote a culture of anti- Promote Equality and Social HSE, CESCA, Cork City Council 7.9 Investigate possible shared LCDC, Cork City Council and 7.17 discrimination in Cork City Equity in the City through: and LCDC. physical community space in other stakeholders in the City. through the implementation of city centre that marginalised the Public Sector Human Rights • Providing continuing training communities, new communities and Equality Duty. to State Agencies, Private would have ease of access to Sector and Community for own events. Groups on Equality and Human Rights Obligations. • Undertaking an equality proofing review of public policies

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Objective Actions Contact Action Objective Actions Contact Action (Partners) Ref. No (Partners) Ref. No

Promote the Yellow Flag LCDC and Cork City Council. 7.18 Support children and young NTA, Cork City Council, Cork 8.9 Programme in schools, people to actively commute to County Council, HSE and other expanding the number of school through the continued relevant city stakeholders. schools adopting the support of initiatives such as programme. Safer Cycling Training, COW, WOW and Park & Stride. Promote awareness of Support a People with LCDC. 7.19 disability issues in Cork City. Disabilities Inter-agency Group. Support and provide access to Cork City Council, Heritage 8.10 Develop and support of an LCDC. 7.20 heritage related activities in the groups and organisation. online information source, city to children and young detailing accessibility levels of people and promote heritage in places and spaces in the City. schools.

Support and prioritise early Set up an inter-agency group to CETB, Cork City Council, HSE, 8.11 year’s education provision. develop and co- ordinate a UCC, and other. 18- programme of youth activities Children and Young People and supports across the city, with an emphasis on To develop integrated responses to the needs of children and young people disadvantaged areas.

and improve outcomes through local inter-agency working. Support community based Support EU Urban innovative Cork City Council, HSE, CYPSC, 8.12 prevention and early actions proposal focussing on LCDC. intervention initiative in the nurturing city concept. Objective Actions Contact Action City (Partners) Ref. No Improve the sustainability of Provide fora for sharing of best Cork City Council, HSE, CYPSC, 8.13 childcare provision in the city. practice and learning from LCDC. Support the Children and Young Strengthen the inter-agency CYPSC , TUSLA, HSE, 8.1 north side initiatives across the Person’s Services Committee approach and co-operation to Community Groups, Cork City city, e.g. Young Knocknaheeny (CYPSC) strategy; assist in deliver the CYPSC strategy. Council, Cork City Partnership and Happy Talk. developing needs analysis of and other relevant children and young people, the stakeholders. Support the development of a Cork City Childcare Company, 8.14 mapping of services and new model of managing Cork City Council, HSE, Cork resources needed to implement community childcare as a key City Partnership and other. the strategy. Continue to support the CYSPC, ETB, Cork City Council, 8.2 initiative in the city. co-ordination of youth work Tulsa, HSE, Cork City organisations within the city. Partnership and other city Support the development of an Cork City Childcare Company, 8.15 stakeholders. affordable model of full day Cork City Council, HSE, Cork provision to enable parents City Partnership and other. Prioritise and focus on the Support programmes and CYPSC , TUSLA, HSE, 8.3 attend work or training. emotional and mental wellbeing initiatives that seek to improve Community Groups, Cork City of children and young people in the emotional and mental Council, Cork City Partnership Investigate the delivery of Cork City Childcare Company, 8.16 the city. wellbeing of children and young and other city stakeholders. supports for services for Cork City Council, HSE, Cork people in the city. children under 3. City Partnership and other.

Prioritise and focus on To provide all children and LCDC and Music Generation. 8.4 Support the delivery of the Provide opportunities for TUSLA and HSE. 8.17 opportunities to support and young people in the city with Strengthening Families parents, young people and their secure the wellbeing of children music education by resourcing approach in Cork City. carers to access supports to and young people in the city. and supporting Music evidence based programmes Generation and Music such as strengthening families Education Partnership. programme.

Develop and support access to RAPID Programme and LCDC. 8.5 Strengthen the recognised role Continue to support the LCDC and other City Agencies. 8.18 youth cafes. of youth organisations in the coordination of youth development and organisations in the city. Resource and develop multi- Cork City Council, LCDC, HSE 8.6 implementation of youth activity camps. and Cork Sport’s Partnership. initiatives in the city.

Promote maritime activities for Cork City Council and LCDC. 8.7 Engage youth organisations in Cork City Council and youth 8.19 children and young people. the consultation, promotion organisations working in the and co-ordination of youth city. Support and promote the Headstrong, HSE, Cork City 8.8 initiatives in the city. development of the JIGSAW Council, CYPSC and other City programme in the City. bodies.

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Objective Actions Contact Action Objective Actions Contact Action (Partners) Ref. No (Partners) Ref. No

Support the delivery of active Review the existing Cork Cork City Council and 8.20 Provide a responsive approach Develop a needs analysis on Cork City Council, HSE, Cork 9.7 spaces, recreation and play Recreational Needs Study other relevant agencies. to Older Peoples housing needs variety of accommodation City Age Friendly Alliance, areas in the City (2003) and Cork City Parks types that allow older persons Community Projects. Strategy (2000) to guide the the option to downsize within future needs requirements of their local community. young people in the city. Develop a directory of services Healthy Cities, Age Friendly 9.8 Support the delivery of Consider the need and delivery LCDC, CETB, HSE, 8.21 for older people that will Alliance and LCDC. mentoring programs for young methods for broader mentoring CityCouncil and other provide flexible, easily updated people in the City programmes and training in stakeholders in the city information. resilience and coping skills for young people in the city. Enable older people to live in Cork City Council, HSE, Cork 9.9 their own homes and City Age Friendly Alliance, communities by providing the Community Projects. necessary supports and services as well as suitable 65+ Older People housing in the right locations. Support community Co-ordinate and promote Healthy Cities, Age Friendly 9.10 To develop integrated responses to the needs of older people, promoting participation, mentoring and increased levels of community Alliance, Cork ETB and Cork their inclusion and contribution in all areas of life and responding. volunteerism for older persons participation, mentoring and Volunteer Centre and LCDC in the City volunteerism by older persons in the city.

Objective Actions Contact Action Actively support, work towards Cork City Council, Healthy 9.11 and promote Cork City as a Cities, HSE, Cork City Age (Partners) Ref. No dementia friendly city. Friendly Alliance, Community Projects, and other city Actively promote the Ensure all agencies support the Healthy Cities, Age Friendly 9.1 stakeholders. Age Friendly Strategy Age Friendly Strategy and Alliance and LCDC. implement its goals and Support community based care Investigate the feasibility of Healthy Cities, Age Friendly 9.12 actions. facilities for older people with providing a community based, Alliance, Cork City Council and an ethos of integration and collective living model for older LCDC. Promote and support a Provide access and Cork Volunteer Centre, Healthy 9.2 continued learning and persons in the City as a viable volunteering policy for older opportunities to volunteer and Cities, Age Friendly Alliance, independence alternative to traditional care people. identify any barriers and seek LCDC and other city facilities. solutions. stakeholders. Support the delivery of active Review the existing Cork Cork City Council, Healthy 9.13 Lobby Dept of Social Healthy Cities, Age Friendly 9.3 spaces, recreation and play Recreational Needs Study Cities, Age Friendly Alliance Protection, National Alliance and LCDC. areas in the city (2003) and Cork City Parks and LCDC. Government to increase Strategy (2000) to guide the opportunity to work past age of future needs requirements of 65 in a way which will not older people in the city. negatively influence one’s social welfare payments. Support the delivery of smart Explore the implementation of Cork Smart Gateway. 9.14 living technologies within assisted living technologies and To support the Cork Age To raise awareness in the public Healthy Cities, Age Friendly 9.4 housing for older persons in facilitate testbed for trialling of Friendly Business Programme. and private sector through Alliance and LCDC. the City such innovations within housing training on the needs of elderly for older persons in the city people in the development of policies, programmes and services.

Promote awareness of Develop links with Cork Older Healthy Cities, Age Friendly 9.5 consultation approaches to Peoples forum and provide a Alliance and LCDC. include Older people platform for age related matters to be raised at city level.

Support the Cork Older Peoples Healthy Cities, Age Friendly 9.6 Forum to fully participate in the Alliance, PPN and LCDC. PPN structure.

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Economic Diversity Objective Actions Contact Action (Partners) Ref. No Support the maintenance of a diverse economic base within the city Promote Cork as a location for Cork City and County Councils, 10.12 inward investment Cork Smart Gateway and other stakeholders Objective Actions Contact Action (Partners) Ref. No Make Cork a “must visit” Cork City and County Councils 10.13 destination through and other stakeholders and Stimulate the further Develop the city centre Cork City Council, CORE, City 10.1 implementation of the Visit Cork development of the City Centre economy though a range of Centre forum (Bus Eireann, collective strategy for Growing and support it as the main actions developed through the Cork Business Association, Tourism in Cork employment and retail location CORE and City Centre Forum. Cork Chamber, Cork City Council, Garda Síochána, Continue to enhance and Cork City and County Councils, 10.14 Hospital and Retail Sectors). develop Cork City’s tourism Cork Smart Gateway and other offer stakeholders Support the development and Cork City Council and Local 10.2 operation of traders’ Enterprise Office, Cork City. Promote Cork as a destination Cork City and County Councils, 10.15 associations in the City Centre. for business tourism Cork Convention Bureau, Cork (conferences, meetings etc) Smart Gateway and other Actively promote Cork City Cork City Council, CORE (Bus 10.3 stakeholders Centre in the Cork City Region Eireann, Cork Business and beyond, as the main retail, Association, Cork Chamber, Support the implementation of Cork City Council, business 10.16 cultural and entertainment Cork City Council, Garda the objectives under Goal 4 of and tourism groups and centre for the region. Síochána, Hospital and Retail the Cork City Heritage Plan associations, Failte Ireland and Sectors). “Increase level of community other stakeholders activity for heritage and forge Promote Cork City as a location Cork City Council, Cork Smart 10.4 stronger links with business for inward investment. Gateway. and tourism interests”. Facilitate the provision of a Through the City Development Cork City Council. 10.5 range of property options to Plan identify a range of suitable meet the needs of businesses locations to facilitate at all stages of development – businesses in a wide range of Innovation from startup, incubation and sectors. grow-on to mid- sized and large floorplate Support innovation in the local economy

Develop co working space in the Cork City Council. 10.6 city centre. Objective Actions Contact Action Secure the continued Cork City Council. 10.7 (Partners) Ref. No redevelopment of the City Harbour/Docklands area. Support the creation of an Support it@cork, the European it@cork 11.1 innovation friendly culture in Tech Cluster Promote economic and general Cork City Council, Cork Smart 10.8 the city development in the city centre Gateway. through targeted financial Facilitate provision of city Cork City Council and Cork 11.2 incentives and supports centre start up space for tech Smart Gateway including facilitation of companies, building on the testbeds success of Formalab

Strengthen Cork’s enterprise Provide a business information Local Enterprise Office, Cork 10.9 Facilitate the establishment of Cork City Council and Cork 11.3 base through the provision of a and advisory service. City. data centre in Cork Smart Gateway first stop shop to support the establishment of new Support innovation in the local Cork City and County Councils 11.4 businesses and growth of economy and local community and other relevant existing local enterprises that recognises arts and stakeholders creative activity as drivers for Provide a range of enterprise UUC, CIT, Local Enterprise 10.10 growth support services designed to Office, Cork City and other city maximise business potential stakeholders. Support the development of Build on and exploit Cork’s Cork City Council and other 11.5 and support the long term new and existing clusters strengths in the food and drink stakeholders sustainability of enterprise and sector in a responsible and creation of jobs sustainable manner.

Promote Cork internationally as Implement the Cork strategic Cork City and County Councils, 10.11 the location to place to invest, messaging and branding project Cork Smart Gateway and other work, study, live and visit stakeholders 92 93 An Action Plan for Cork City Pure Cork - An Action Plan For The City

Objective Actions Contact Action Skills and Human Capital (Partners) Ref. No Develop skills within the Cork area to match the needs of existing and future Support the continued Cork City and County Councils, 11.6 development of creative Film in Cork and other relevant businesses. Provide support services for the unemployed and to help maintain industries and cultural/artistic stakeholders and expand businesses in areas of high unemployment sectors, which are drivers of innovation in the local economy and community. Objective Actions Contact Action Continue to support the growth Energy Cork 11.7 (Partners) Ref. No of Energy Cork as an exemplar industry cluster in the energy Ensure that Cork’s education Participate in the work of the Cork ETB, CIT , UCC, IT Tralee, 12.1 sector – leading to economic and skills base is aligned with Regional Skills Forum which Cork City Council, Cork County growth and job creation in the the requirements of industry brings together employers and Council, Kerry County Council, sector and advancing Cork’s (FDI and indigenous) the further and higher IDA, EI, Cork and Kerry LEOs unique position at the forefront education system of the region; of energy innovation in Ireland. Support those who are Support the development of CETB, Cork City Council, Cork 12.2 unemployed to enable them to targeted employment City Partnership, Dept of Support the following clusters SWRAPJ 11.8 access education, training and initiatives at a local level Social Protection, Cork City as outlined in the SW Regional employment Partnership, SIMON and Local Action Plan for Jobs: Enterprise Office, Cork City

• Convergent Life Sciences Pilot the inclusion of social Cork City Council, Cork City 12.3 and Health benefit clauses for public bodies Partnership, HSE, LES and • Global Business Services other City bodies. • Tourism • Marine, Energy Support the implementation of Cork City Council 12.4 and Natural resources national labour market • Consumer food and cross activation schemes cutting clusters: • ICT and Entrepreneurship. Support the continued delivery Cork City Council, CETB, Cork 12.5 • Advanced manufacturing of the Special Initiative for City Partnership, and other / engineering Traveller Training (SITT) in the relevant stakeholders. city.

Further develop Develop initiatives to promote Local Enterprise Office, Cork 11.9 Support the retention and Continue to implement the Cork City Council, Local 12.6 entrepreneurship and an youth entrepreneurship City Council, Cork City growth of existing businesses Northside for Business initiative Enterprise Office, Cork City, enterprise culture in Cork Partnership and Cork Smart and the development of new RAPID, Plato, Cork Urban Gateway businesses in the city’s RAPID Enterprises Ltd areas Support the provision of a UCC, CIT, Cork City & County 11.10 range of entrepreneurship and LEOs and Councils, Cork BIC, incubation programmes and and EI activities

Develop and promote Cork City Cork City Council, Cork County 11.11 Transportation and Communications as a centre of excellence for Council and Cork Innovates entrepreneurship Support measures to improve transport and telecommunications Develop Cork as a Smart Support the Cork SMART Cork Smart Gateway, Cork City 11.12 Gateway – where digital Gateway initiative Council, Cork City LEO, Cork networks into and around Cork City and region technologies and smart County Council, NIMBUS and solutions support better public Tyndall services for citizens Objective Actions Contact Action (Partners) Ref. No

Ensure the smart, sustainable Implement the City Centre Cork City Council and other 13.1 and effective movement of Movement strategy relevant City stakeholders people and goods and optimise mobility for all across the available transport network in a sustainable manner that meets the national target for non car modal share

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Objective Actions Contact Action Objective Actions Contact Action (Partners) Ref. No (Partners) Ref. No

Review and implement the Cork City Council and other 13.2 Support the targeted delivery Cork City Council, Cork County 13.11 projects associated with the relevant City stakeholders of regional infrastructure, in Council, other local authorities, South East Strategic Corridor particular the delivery of SRA and other relevant study projects which increase the national and local accessibility, connectivity and stakeholders. Complete the South Western Cork City Council and other 13.3 competitiveness of the and Central Strategic Corridor relevant City stakeholders Southern Region. study and implement associated projects Continue to advocate the Cork City Council and other 13.12 critical importance of delivering relevant stakeholders Complete the Northern Cork City Council and other 13.4 the bridges required for the Strategic Corridor study and relevant City stakeholders development of the Cork implement associated projects Docklands

Influence travel demand Cork City Council, NTA, 13.5 Support enhanced connectivity Work progressively with Cork Cork Airport, Cork City and 13.13 patterns Employers through Cork Airport - the Airport and stakeholders to County Councils, industry, FI and choice to support an international gateway to the develop new routes and integrated and sustainable south of Ireland increase visitor numbers transport system Promote the opportunities to Reduce the cost of Cork City Council , IDA, ESB 13.14 develop Cork’s Information and international data transfer Networks and it@cork Support the implementation of Cork City Council, NTA 13.6 Communications Technology from Cork the findings of the Cork Area (ICT) economy, including the Transit Study (CATS) in use of Smart City technologies. Increase the latency (speed) of particular to support the international connections to identification of a route for the Cork proposed east-west Bus Rapid Transit route (BRT) Support the delivery and Cork County Council, Cork City 13.15 maintenance of Tier 1 Council and other relevant City Further development of Cork Cork City Council and other 13.7 international connectivity in stakeholders cycle network relevant City stakeholders Cork city and region.

Support the delivery of the Cork NTA, Cork City Council and 13.8 Promote availability of the Cork City Council, it@cork 13.16 City Walking Strategy other relevant City INEX internet neutral exchange stakeholders Support the development of Support Cork County in the Cork County Council, Cork City 13.17 Promote the development of Continue to advocate the Cork City Council, Cork County 13.9 water- based transport development of a passenger Council and other relevant City strategic road and public critical importance of delivering Council and other relevant ferry from Cobh to Ringaskiddy stakeholders transport infrastructure to on a number of schemes stakeholders enhance connectivity and including: accessibility within the region • N28 (Cork to Ringaskiddy) upgrading Quality of Place • Dunkettle interchange upgrade • Northern Ring Rd to complete Build on Cork’s strong place quality assets and improve ring of City • M20 Cork Limerick motorway the attractiveness of the city for residents and visitors • N22 Cork to Killarney Objective Actions Contact Action Support the delivery of public NTA, Bus Eireann, Irish rail, TII, 13.10 (Partners) Ref. No infrastructure projects and Cork City Council, Cork County initiatives that further enhance Council and other relevant Cork City will be a successful, Implement the policies and Cork City Council and other 14.1 Cork City’s role as a strategic stakeholders sustainable regional capital and objectives set out in the Cork relevant stakeholders in the national gateway and help achieve a high quality of life for City Development Plan 2015- City create more sustainable its citizens 2021 transport patterns for the region.

Enhance the vibrancy of Cork Develop the character sub Cork City Council and other 14.2 City Centre by implementing areas within the strategy relevant stakeholders in the the City Centre Strategy City. through the annual City Centre Action Plans 96 97 An Action Plan for Cork City Pure Cork - An Action Plan For The City

Objective Actions Contact Action Competitiveness through Strategic Governance (Partners) Ref. No

Support the development of Cork City Council and other 14.3 Co-operate with other stakeholders to deliver the strategic governance the transformational projects relevant stakeholders in the that drives economic activity within the Cork Gateway and also to maintain identified within the plan City. the excellent quality of life available in Cork which underpins the Gateway’s Deliver a high quality public Review the Cork City Parks Cork City Council and other 14.4 competitiveness realm Strategy (2000) relevant stakeholders in the City.

Deliver the objectives and Cork City Council and other 14.5 Objective Actions Contact Action actions set out in the Cork City relevant stakeholders in the (Partners) Ref. No Centre Strategy 2014 and Cork City. City Centre Action Plan 2016 Cork’s potential to develop Support the development and Cork City Council, Cork County 15.1 and subsequent annual plans further as Ireland’s second implementation of the new Council and other relevant City international gateway city is National Planning Framework Stakeholders Promote the culture and Support the implementation of Cork City Council, CEF, third 14.6 acknowledged, supported and heritage of Cork City the Natural Heritage Actions in level institutions and other realised in national and regional the Cork City Heritage Plan relevant environmental groups policies 2015-2020. in the city Support the development and Cork City Council, Cork County 15.2 implementation of the new Council, Cork Smart Gateway Establish an inter-agency group Cork City Council, business 14.7 Regional Spatial and Economic and other relevant City to investigate the economic and tourism groups and Strategy Stakeholders value of heritage to the city associations, Failte Ireland particularly in the area of Support appropriate and Cork City Council, Cork County 15.3 tourism and business sustainable synergies between Council, other local authorities, Create a robust, evidence based Cork City Council, business and 14.8 Cork City and other cities and SRA and other relevant database of information on the tourism groups and urban centres both nationally national and local economic value of heritage to associations, Failte Ireland and across the Southern Region stakeholders. the city. (e.g. Limerick, Waterford, Tralee-Killarney) that Continue to support a range of Cork City Council and other 14.9 strengthen collective festivals, events and arts relevant stakeholders in the opportunities to attract activities City. investment, employment and people to the Southern region. Develop and implement a new Cork City Council and other 14.10 Support the role of Cork City as Arts Strategy that looks to relevant stakeholders in the leader in this regard. provide support through City. funding, investment and Support the co-ordinated Implement the Cork Area Cork City Council, Cork County 15.4 facilitation so existing venues, development of the Cork Strategic Plan 2001-2020 Council and other relevant City projects and programmes can Gateway by providing a non Stakeholders be made more sustainable, and statutory planning framework new ideas can be realised. to enable it to become a leading European city region Continue to improve protection Cork City Council and other 14.11 and appreciation of the relevant stakeholders in the Prepare for successor CASP Cork City Council, Cork County 15.5 architectural and archaeological City. strategy post 2020 Council and other relevant City heritage of the city. Stakeholders

Cork City Council, as the Identify, initiate and part-fund Cork City Council and other 15.6 organisation with a democratic (with other stakeholders) relevant City stakeholders mandate, will initiate and activities to maintain and coordinate activities that enhance Cork’s competitiveness support Cork City as a competitive location for economic activities and an economic driver for the region

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Overview Monitoring The objectives and actions identified in this plan are challenging but they are realistic with a genuine prospect of being achieved through the active leadership and participation of the agencies and Monitoring, evaluation and review is central to understanding the level of progress of this action partners identified. The engagement and commitment displayed by both the steering group and plan. There are two important elements needed to achieve this: the stakeholders in the development of this plan is notable and provides a strong platform to implement. 1. Establishing an “LECP Monitoring and Implementation Steering Group”: to advise and assist on the implementation, monitoring and review of this plan and the framework for delivering it. Implementation, monitoring, evaluation and review of the plan’s objectives and actions is critical The central role of the “LECP Monitoring and Implementation Team” will be co-ordinating the in determining the success of this plan. A monitoring framework that measures outcomes against supporting partners, bodies and agencies with responsibility for the delivery of actions identified a range of national, regional and local indicators will be needed. in the plan. Both the LCDC and SPCs will also play central roles in looking after their respective streams with responsibility for monitoring, implementing and reviewing specified actions with Timeframe and Review strong representation and connection to the Monitoring and Implementation Team. Given the nature of planning for the delivery of specific objectives and actions over a six year 2. Developing a “Cork City Data Hub”: to create an evidenced based monitoring tool that is timeframe, this plan has adopted a three staged approached, with the objectives and actions to functional and flexible enough to evaluate and review the objectives and actions within this plan be fully reviewed every two years. Each objective and action will be reviewed to monitor progress, and can also inform future city initiatives and actions. assess relevance and establish the need for additions and amendments. This will allow for a more realistic and flexible plan that remains current to the social and economic realities and needs of the City over the next six years.

Implementation The majority of actions within the plan will require funding streams. Central government funding is available through a wide range of associated agencies and non-departmental public bodies. Key Tasks for the Steering Group Cork City Council, the LCDC and other City agencies and stakeholders need to remain focused on all policy updates in advance of funding announcements, to increase public funding for Cork City over The LECP Monitoring and Implementation Steering Group will be tasked with the role of the the lifetime of this plan. The aim will be to better the co-ordination of funding to the private and implementation, monitoring and reviewing the plan and developing the framework for delivering community and voluntary (non-private) sector. these roles. The following key tasks are required:

Implementation of this LECP shall conform to the provisions of the Cork City Development Plan 1. Setting out the Implementation Plan: Detailing the objectives and actions to be targeted for each 2015-2021 and the various Local Area Plans, including those provisions responsible for the protection two year plan implementation phase over the six years of the plan. and management of the environment including environmental sensitivities. The preparation of any 2. Co-ordinating the supporting partners, bodies and agencies tasked with the delivery of actions lower tier plans or strategies are required to be subject to SEA and AA as appropriate. identified in the plan 3. Determining and defining funding mechanisms for the delivery of actions Implementation plan 4. Monitoring and reviewing the implementation of actions 5. Recognition and promotion of actions delivered during each implementation phase. An implementation plan shall be prepared for each two year phase of this plan to give more detail 6. Promoting the delivery of the LECP through active means, including the production of a summary on the specific actions to be targeted for each phase. Each implementation plan shall be prepared document designed for public launch and for regular use by decision makers. by the Steering Group and should identify the action, the lead stakeholder and partner, timeline for implementation, outcomes/KPI’s and resource allocation where practical. The implementation plan will be used to drive and monitor the progress of the actions set out in this plan.

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Appendix I Appendix II Members of the Local Community and Development Committee Members of the Strategic Planning, Economic Development (LCDC) and Enterprise Strategic Policy Committee

Chief Supt. Mick Finn An Garda Síochána Cllr Chris O’Leary Cork City Council

Ms. Ann Doherty Chief Executive Cork City Council Cllr Henry Cremin Cork City Council

Mr. Paul Moynihan Chief Officer L.C.D.C. Cllr Nicholas O’Keeffe Cork City Council

Ms. Adrienne Rodgers Head of Enterprise, Local Enterprise Office Cork City Cllr Ted Tynan Cork City Council

Cllr. Fergal Dennehy Cork City Council Cllr Joe Kavanagh Cork City Council

Cllr. P.J. Hourican Cork City Council Cllr Thomas Moloney Cork City Council

Cllr. Chris O’Leary Cork City Council Mr Pat Guilfoyle Irish Congress of Trades Union

Ms. Ger Canning Adult Education Organiser, Cork Education & Training Board Ms Isobel O’Regan Cork Chamber

Ms. Rebecca Loughry Specialist Social Inclusion, Health Service Executive Ms Trish O’Sullivan Irish Planning Institute

Mr. Lawrence Owens Chief Executive Cork Business Association

Ms. Brenda Cahill Chief Executive Cork City Partnership

Mr. David Ronayne Chief Executive Officer Irish Mainport Holdings

Ms. Bernie Connolly Environmental Pillar of the PPN

Mr. Dan Boyle Community and Voluntary Pillar of the PPN

Ms. Fiona Finn Social Inclusion Pillar of the PPN

Mr. Aaron O’Connell Social Inclusion Pillar of the PPN

Ms. Nora O’Donovan Community and Voluntary Pillar of the PPN

The current members of the LCDC would also like to acknowledge the contribution of the following former members in the delivery of this action plan:

Ms. Marie Therese Conere Environmental Pillar of the PPN Ms. Ronnie Dorney, HSE Principal Community Worker, HSE.

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Appendix III Appendix IV Consistency with Cork City Development Plan 2015-2021 Appropriate Assessment Screening Determination under Section and South West Regional Planning Guidelines Review 2010-2022. Part 5 of the European Communities (Birds and Natural Habitats) Regulations, 2011. The Local Government Act 2001 (as amended) provides that the LECP must be consistent with the core strategy and objectives of the Development Plan of the area and the Regional Planning Cork City Council engaged Scott Cawley Ltd. to carry out the Appropriate Assessment Screening Guidelines 12. of the Draft Cork City Local Economic and Community Plan, (LECP) 2016-2021 as required under Article 6(3) of the Habitats Directive. Pursuant to the provisions of Sections 66C(2)(b) and 66C(3)(b) of the Local Government Act 2001 (as amended), the Members of the SPEDE SPC and the LCDC have considered the Economic and The AA Screening Report describes the Plan, the nature of the European sites within the zone Community elements of the draft Local Economic and Community Plan (LECP) 2016-2021 presented of influence and the relationship between the two, with regard to the European sites qualifying on 3rd and 06th October 2016 respectively and confirm that the draft Local Economic and Community interests/special conservation interests and conservation objectives, such that any impact Plan 2016- 2021 is consistent with the Core Strategy and objectives of the Cork City Development pathways could be identified and assesses any potential for direct, indirect or cumulative impacts Plan 2015- 2021. arising as a result of implementation of the Strategy on European sites.

A copy of the draft LECP and accompanying documents was forwarded to the Southern Regional Having reviewed and considered the Appropriate Assessment Screening Report and considering the Assembly on the 7th October 2016 requesting the Assembly to consider the consistency of the Draft content and vision of the Plan, Cork City Council accepts the conclusion of the report, namely, “that Cork City LECP with the South West Regional Planning Guidelines 2010-2022. At their meeting of there would be no likelihood of any significant effects on any European Sites, either alone or in 14th October 2016, the Southern Regional Assembly adopted a statement of consistency as required combination with other plans or projects” arising from the implementation of the Strategy. under the provisions of the Local Government Act 2001 (as amended). This statement confirmed that the Draft Cork City Local Economic and Community Plan 2016 - 2021 has demonstrated, as far The main reasons for this are that the Plan sits under the Cork City Development Plan 2015-2021 in as is practicable, consistency: the development control hierarchy and will be implemented subject to the policies and objectives contained therein. The City Development Plan contains numerous policies and objectives to ensure • with the core strategy and objectives contained in the Cork City Development Plan 2015-2021; protection of the integrity European sites and the environmental conditions underpinning them. • with the Regional Planning Guidelines for the South – West Region 2010 – 2022; and For this reason and alongside the legislation requiring project-level AA Screening it is deemed that • between the community and economic elements of the LECP. implementation of the Strategy will not result in likely significant effects on European sites.

The City Council accepts the professional opinion of Scott Cawley Ltd that there is no requirement to carry out further stages of Appropriate Assessment on the amended draft LECP.

12 Sections 66C(2)(b) and 66C(3)(b) of the Local Government Act 2001 (as amended)

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DJEI Department of Jobs, Enterprise Appendix V Glossary and Innovation Determination for screening out requirement to DSP Department of Social Protection AA Appropriate Assessment undertake a Strategic Environmental Assessment: ECOC European Capital of Culture AIRO All-Island Research Observatory Having had regard to the requirements of SI No. 435 of 2004 European Communities ED Electoral District (Environmental Assessment of Certain Plans and Programmes) Regulations 2004 (as amended BIC Business Innovation Centre EI Enterprise Ireland by SI No. 200 of 2011 European Communities (Environmental Assessment of Certain Plans and BID Business Improvement District Programmes) (Amendment) Regulations 2011, and having consulted with the Environmental EPA Environment Protection Agency Authorities and considered the submissions received, it is the final determination of the Planning CASP Cork Area Strategic Plan ESRI Economic and Social Research Authority that a Strategic Environmental Assessment is not required in respect to the Cork City CCCC Cork City Childcare Committee Institute LECP. This determination is based on the following grounds: CCP Cork City Partnership EU European Union The LECP is required to be consistent with the Core Strategy and Objectives of the City CCTv Cork Community Television FI Fáilte Ireland Development Plan, as the lead policy document for spatial and land-use issues, which has been subject to the Strategic Environmental Assessment. The LECP is consistent with and will CDB City Development Board FDI Foreign Direct Investment complement the City Development Plan. CDP City Development Plan FMAC Frameworks Media and Archive Centre On the basis of the strategic environmental assessment screening and consideration of the criteria, CEF Cork Environmental Forum (set out in Annex II of SEA Directive 2001/42/EC and Schedule 1 of the Regulations 2004), it is FRC Family Resource Centre CESCA Cork Equal & Sustainable considered that the LECP is unlikely to give rise to significant effects on the receiving environment, Communities Alliance GDP Gross Domestic Product and therefore does not require an SEA. CETB Cork Education and Training Board HSE Health Service Executive

CIT Cork Institute of Technology ICT Information and Communications Technology CLDATF Cork Local Drug & Alcohol Task Force ISP Integrated Services Programme

CORE Cork City Centre Partnership JPC Joint Policing Committee

CSO Central Statistics Office LCDC Local Community Development Committee CSP Cork Sports Partnership LECP Local Economic CWTN Cork Woman’s Traveller Network and Community Plan CYPSC Children and Young Persons LEO Local Enterprise Office Services Committee LGBT Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual DEIS Delivering Equality of Opportunity and Transgender in Schools

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NDTRS National Drugs Treatment SRDATF South Regional Drugs Reporting System and Alcohol Task Force

NEET Not in Employment, TII Transport Infrastructure Ireland Education or Training TUSLA Child and Family Agency NESC National Economic & Social Council UCC University College Cork NIA Natura Impact Assessment UNESCO United Nations Educational, NPF National Planning Framework Scientific and Cultural Organisation

NSS National Spatial Strategy WHO World Health Organisation

POWSCAR Place of Work, School or College, Census of Anonymised Records

PPN Public Participation Network

RAPID Revitalising Areas through Planning Investment and Development

RSES Regional Spatial and Economic Strategies

SEAI Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland

SAC Special Area of Conservation

SDGs (The UN’s) Sustainable Development Goals

SEA Strategic Environmental Assessment

SICAP Social Inclusion and Community Activation Programme

SME Small and Medium sized Enterprise

SOLAS An tSeirbhís Oideachais Leanúnaigh agus Scileanna

SPA Special Protection Areas

SPC Strategic Policy Committee

SRA Southern Regional Assembly

110 For further information contact:

Economic Development Section, Strategic Planning and Economic Development Directorate, Cork City Council. Tel: 4924034 E-mail: [email protected]

Social Inclusion Unit, Corporate and External Affairs Directorate, Cork City Council. Tel: 4924060/61 E-mail: [email protected] or [email protected] Cover Photo: Dennis Horgan