TIVOLI DOCKS ISSUES PAPER Cork City Council Comhailre Cathrach Chorcaí May 2017 ISSUES PAPER 1 Contents 1. Introduction 3 2. Strategic Planning Context 6 3. Creating a new Vision for Tivoli 16 3.1 Housing 18 3.2 Employment 20 3.3 Place making 22 3.4 Delivery Challenges and Infrastructure 25 3.5 Climate Change and Sustainability 29 4. How you can shape the new Local Area Plan 32 2 TIVOLI LOCAL AREA PLAN ISSUES PAPER 3 1. Introduction Cork City Council is starting to prepare a Local Area Plan, (LAP) for Tivoli Docks. The purpose of the LAP will be to set out an integrated land use, transportation and urban design framework to facilitate the future redevelopment of the area. As a first step, the City Council is inviting all stakeholders and interested parties including local residents, institutions and businesses to identify what issues they feel need to be addressed in the plan, and how the area should be redeveloped. Tivoli is a site of 61.5 hectares, located on the northern bank of the River Lee, approximately 2.5 kilometres east of the City Centre. The site measures 2.5km in length (including the Port of Cork Millennium 2000 Park); with a river frontage of 3km. It is bounded by the Cork-Cobh rail-line, the N8/ Lower Glanmire Road to the north, the River Lee to the south, and the Glashaboy River to the east. 4 TIVOLI LOCAL AREA PLAN ISSUES PAPER 5 Blackpool THE LOCAL AREA PLAN PROCESS Glanmire The Planning and Development Act 2000 (as amended) and Planning and Development Regulations 2001 (as amended) set out the basis for a Local Area Plan and the legal requirements of the plan-making process. The Local Area Plan Guidelines (DECLG, 2012) set out the stages to a Local Area Plan process. Ballyvolane Following this consultation period and having regard to the issues raised by stakeholders, the Council will prepare a draft Local Area Plan. The publication of the draft plan will mark the beginning of the statutory plan making process, (duration of at least 18 weeks). ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT It is important that the implementation of the policies and objectives of a Local Tivoli Area Plan would not have adverse impacts on the receiving environment and that North Docks this principle is incorporated into the plan-making process. The City Council is required to carry out the following assessments in parallel to the statutory plan- Marina Park making process: City Centre South Docks Blackrock • Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) Strategic Environmental Assessment is a process for evaluating at the earliest appropriate stage, the likely environmental effects of implementing a plan or other strategic action in order to ensure that environmental considerations are appropriately addressed in the decision making process both during the preparation and prior to the adoption of the plan. • Strategic Flood Risk Assessment (SFRA) Mahon The Strategic Flood Risk Assessment forms part of the Strategic Environmental Assessment and is required to be carried out in accordance with the “The Planning System and Flood Risk Management,” Guidelines for Planning Authorities (2009) . As part of the Strategic Environmental Assessment process for the City Development Plan 2015 - 2021, Cork City Council has previously carried out a Strategic Flood Risk Assessment for the City including Tivoli. The SFRA recommendation was that the said lands did not satisfy all the criteria of the Justification Test and therefore the Local Douglas Area Plan will be required to be informed by a detailed flood risk assessment and/ or flood risk management measures as a prerequisite to any future development. Figure 1.1 Cork’s Key Development Areas • Appropriate Assessment (AA) Appropriate Assessment is an iterative process which runs parallel to and informs the plan making process to determine whether or not the implementation of plan policies could have negative consequences for the protected habitats, (Natura 2000 sites) or plant and animal species for which these sites are designated. Appropriate Assessment is a requirement under the EU Habitats Directive (92/43/EEC) and EU Birds Directive (79/409/EEC) and Section 177U of the Planning and Development Acts 2000 - 2016. 6 TIVOLI LOCAL AREA PLAN ISSUES PAPER 7 Figure 2.1 Tivoli mudflats prior to reclaimation. Cassini 6” Map. 1863 (geohive.ie) 2. Strategic Planning Context The Cork City Development Plan 2015 - 2021 sets out Cork City Council’s policies for the development of Cork City to 2021 and beyond. The Plan is set within the strategic framework established by National and Regional plans, policies and guidelines. Cork is designated a Gateway city under the National Spatial Strategy (NSS) 2002 - 2020, a driver for population and employment growth in the south-west region. The NSS will be replaced by the National Planning Framework, (NPF) in 2017. Figure 2.2 Tivoli today Glashaboy River HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF TIVOLI NATIONAL PLANNING FRAMEWORK Tivoli was partially developed as early as the mid The forthcoming National Planning Framework 1800’s and extensive dredging works were carried (NPF) “Ireland 2040 - Our Plan” will be the out in the port up to 1914. Tivoli reclamation was statutory framework plan for future development formally conducted around 1913 when the Cork and investment in Ireland for the next 20+ years. Lower Glanmire Road (N8) National Harbour Commissioners made arrangements with Seaways Crosbie Cars the Board of Trade to purchase the slob lands In preparing the NPF, the government recognises Silversprings between Tivoli and Dunkettle for the deposit the need for a “Different Path” away from “... Junction Flogas of dredged material. By 2000, this had been increasingly unmanageable sprawl of housing Minteq Calorgas developed as it is today, including car storage areas, scattered employment and car-based Container and the container port. commuting, presenting major challenges around Port of Cork Compound 2000 Garden River Lee lopsided development, under-utilised potential, congestion and adverse impacts on people’s lives and the environment.” 8 TIVOLI LOCAL AREA PLAN ISSUES PAPER 9 N20 M8 Kilbarry Station (Proposed) R635 Glounthaune Station N25 Kent Station N8 Tivoli City Centre City Docks N22 N27 N40 Proposed Rapid Transit N27 N28 Cobh Station Airport Figure 2.3 Port of Cork (Ringaskiddy) Strategic Context of Tivoli SOURCE: ESRI, DIGITALGLOBE, GEOEYE, EARTHSTAR GEOGRAPHICS, CNES/AIRBUS DS, USDA, USGS, AEROGRID, IGN, AND THE GIS USER COMMUNITY 10 TIVOLI LOCAL AREA PLAN ISSUES PAPER 11 RESPONDING TO CHANGE: CORK’S SUBMISSION TO THE NATIONAL PLANNING FRAMEWORK IRELAND 2040 - OUR PLAN Cork 2050: Realising the Full Potential (March 2017) is the joint Cork City Council / Cork County Council submission to the Ireland 2040 – Our Plan process. It seeks recognition of Cork as a counter-balance to the Greater Dublin Area and the primary driver of economic and population growth in the Southern Region. It puts forward a strategy for the consolidation of growth – both people and employment - in Cork City and Metropolitan At least Cork and proposes to focus development on rapid transit corridors. It 1,000,000 sees Cork City Docks and Tivoli Docks as unique brownfield development assets with potential for creation of new sustainable urban communities. Around 1 million extra people, almost a quarter of whom will be over 65 500,000 + SOUTH WEST REGIONAL PLANNING GUIDELINES 2010 - 2022 The South West Regional Planning Guidelines 2010 - 2022 set out the population targets for growth to 2022. The population target is 150,000 or an increase of 30,000 persons for the period. The Regional Planning Guidelines will be replaced by the Southern Regional Assembly’s Regional Spatial and Economic Strategy (RSES) in 2018. extra homes CORK AREA STRATEGIC PLAN 2020 AND CASP UPDATE 2008 needing to be close to services and amenities The Cork Area Strategic Plan and Update Report prepared by Cork City Council and Cork County Council provides a non-statutory 500,000 planning framework for the greater city area/ metropolitan Cork. The Plan aims to secure the regeneration of Cork City as the engine More than 500,000 additional people at work, Major environmental challenges for the region. CASP envisages that the forecast growth in population, employment and household for the period up to 2020, will only be realised with appropriate actions in the following areas: • Realignment and reinforcement of spatial planning and land > use policies; such as protecting air, water quality, biodiversity • Refocusing of economic and investment strategy; many in high skilled jobs in and around cities and climate change, transforming our energy and • Front-loading of infrastructure and implementation of integrated transport systems towards green energy. transport strategy; • Specific initiatives to develop the Docklands; • Implementation of labour force and skills strategy. CORK CITY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2015 - 2021 The critical role of Cork City and region as a primary engine for growth over the next 20 years is recognised The Cork City Development Plan 2015-2021 sets out Cork City with a need to “...identify mechanisms to tap the Council’s policies for the development of Cork City to 2021 and considerable levels of under-utilised potential in beyond. The Core Strategy (Chapter 2) focuses development on the regional cities by carefully focused policies and the City Centre and Key Development/ Regeneration Areas, placing investment as additional national/ international level great significance on the regeneration of ‘Brownfield’ lands in counter-balances