CORK County Development Plan 2003 2nd EDITION VOLUME 1 Overall Strategy and 1 Main Policy Material Technical Information: The text volumes of this plan have been designed and laid out using Quark Xpress ™ software. Maps in Volume four have been prepared by the staff of the Planning Policy Unit using a MapInfo ™ GIS platform. The Compact Disc CD version was developed by the Planning Policy Unit using Adobe ® Acrobat ® NTY C Distiller ™ 5.0. OU O U C K N R C I O L C Copyright: Cork County Council 2006. All rights reserved. 1899 Map base: Ordnance Survey of Ireland. All rights reserved. Licence number Cork County Council CCMA 2004/07 This Development Plan was printed on 100% Recycled Paper. CORK County Development Plan 2003 2nd Edition This second edition (issue 1) of the Cork County Development Plan 2003 includes: Date Containing Feb., 2003 Cork County Development Plan, Volumes 1,2,3 and 4 March, 2004 Variation 1: Retail Strategy July, 2005 Variation 2 : Retail Warehousing in County Cork Sept., 2005 Variation 3 : Local Area Plans and Special Local Area Plans Enabling Variation April, 2006 Variation 4 : Complementary Variation to the Carrigtwohill SLAP Amendment 1: Ballyadam Edition 2, Issue 1: April 2006 i Overall Strategy and Main Policy Material Introduction The Cork County Development Plan 2003 was formally made by the County Council on 13th January 2003 and came into operation on 10th February 2003. The County Development Plan 2003 is a six year plan and is expected to remain in force until early 2009. Since its adoption, there have been four variations to the plan adopted by the Council, as set out in the table below. Variation No. Title Date it came into effect 1. Retail Strategy Variation 8th March 2004 2. Retail Warehousing Variation 25th July 2005 3. Local Area Plans and Special Local Area 6th September 2005 Plans Enabling Variation 4. Complementary Variation to the Carrigtwohill 24th April 2006 SLAP Amendment 1: Ballyadam Given the number and scope of the changes arising from these variations, and in particular the Enabling Variation, it was considered that an updated edition of the plan was warranted. This 2nd Edition of the County Development Plan 2003 has been produced to incorporate all the adopted variations made up to April 2006. By far the largest number of changes to the County Development Plan have arisen from the Enabling Variation which was made to facilitate the preparation of Local Area Plans for each of the ten Electoral Areas in the county and three Special Local Area Plans in connection with the proposals for the Cork Suburban Rail Network. As a result, the text and zoning maps for the 31 main settlements moved from Volume 3 to the relevant Electoral Area Local Area Plan, with the exception of the settlements of Blarney, Midleton and Carrigtwohill, which have now been substantially revised in the appropriate Special Local Area Plan. The written statement is now in two parts. The first (Volume 1) presents the overall planning strategy and all of the main policy material. The second (Volume 2) shows specific objectives for Heritage and Amenity. Volume 4 contains the following sets of maps: Ø Metropolitan Cork Green Belt Ø Rural Housing Control Zone Ø Heritage and Scenic Amenity Ø Architectural Conservation Areas Ø Landscape Character Areas and Types CORK Edition 2, Issue 1: April 2006 County Development Plan ii 2003 Overall Strategy and Main Policy Material FOREWORD Note from the Mayor Note from the Manager Cork County Development Plan 2003 is the This County Development Plan sets out a result of a widespread and extensive blueprint for the development of County involvement by the people of Cork in the Cork for the next six years. It addresses a plan-making process. This involvement whole range of development pressures and came from individuals as well as from all needs that are facing the county during this sorts of groups and organisations, reflect- particular time of change. The Plan is the ing the pride that people have in their outcome of a lengthy process involving a county and their interest in how future chal- high level of engagement by the Elected lenges should be tackled. Members of the Council, working within the tight new timeframes of the planning acts. We in the Council have built on these ideas, achieving a balanced plan based on some I wish to express my appreciation to the new and innovative approaches. This has Mayor and Members of the Council; to the been possible with the encouragement and officials of the Council, particularly to the expertise of our planners in the Planning staff of the Planning Policy Unit, and to the Policy Unit and with the support of the County Manager and his other officials. very large number of the general public who made submissions during the course of the preparation of the Plan. All have contributed to a Plan of which all of us can The end result, I believe, is a sound plan be proud. that sets out a clear, shared vision for the future development of the county that we all cherish. I am confident that the Plan will make an important contribution to fostering continued growth and development throughout our county into the future. Cllr. Paula Desmond Mayor of the County of Cork February, 2003 Maurice Moloney Cork County Manager February, 2003 CORK County Development Plan Edition 2, Issue 1: April 2006 2003 iii Overall Strategy and Main Policy Material CORK Edition 2, Issue 1: April 2006 County Development Plan iv 2003 Overall Strategy and Main Policy Material Members of Cork County Council Carrigaline County Electoral Area NTY C OU O U NORTH CORK C K N Cllr. Simon Coveney (FG) R C I O L Fermoy County Electoral Area C Cllr. Batt O’ Keeffe (FF) Cllr. Kevin O’ Keeffe (FF) Cllr. Barry Cogan (FF) 1899 Cllr. Frank O’Flynn (FF) Cllr. Deirdre Forde (FF) Cllr. Aileen D. Pyne (FG) Cllr. Derry Canty (FG) Cllr. P.J. Walsh (FG) Cllr. Paula Desmond (LAB) Kanturk County Electoral Area Cllr. Peter Kelly (FG) Cllr. Patrick Buckley (FG) Midleton County Electoral Area Cllr. Frank Crowley (FG) Cllr. John Mulvihill (LAB) Cllr. Michael Donegan (FF) Cllr. Michael Hegarty (FG) Cllr. Gerard Murphy (FG) Cllr. Noel Collins (NP) Cllr. Marie Murphy (FF) Cllr. Maurice Ahern (FF) Mallow County Electoral Area Cllr. Art Supple (FF) Cllr. Paul Bradford (FG) Cllr. Ted Murphy (NP) Cllr. Dan Joe Fitzgerald (FF) Cllr. Joe Sherlock (LAB) WEST CORK Cllr. Tom Sheahan (FG) Bantry County Electoral Area Cllr. Denis O’ Donovan (FF) SOUTH CORK Cllr. P.J. Sheehan (FG) Bandon County Electoral Area Cllr. Noel Harrington (FG) Cllr. Peter Callanan (FF) Cllr. John Patrick O’ Shea (FG) Cllr. Kevin Murphy (FG) Cllr. Vivian Callaghan (FF) Cllr. Alan Coleman (FF) Skibbereen County Electoral Area Blarney County Electoral Area Cllr. Christy O’ Sullivan (NP) Cllr. Tomás Ryan (FG) Cllr. Maura Cal McCarthy (FG) Cllr. Gerry Kelly (FG) Cllr. Donal O’ Rourke (FF) Cllr. Daniel Fleming (FF) Cllr. Tadg O’ Donovan (FG) Cllr. Annette McNamara (FF) Cllr. Tom O’ Neill (FF) Cllr. Michael McCarthy (LAB) Macroom County Electoral Area Cllr. John Collins (FG) Cllr. Michael Creed (FG) Cllr. Donal Moynihan (FF) Cllr. Frank Metcalfe (FG) CORK County Development Plan Edition 2, Issue 1: April 2006 2003 v Overall Strategy and Main Policy Material CORK Edition 2, Issue 1: April 2006 County Development Plan vi 2003 Overall Strategy and Main Policy Material Layout of Volume 1: THE DEVELOPMENT PLAN IS Overall Strategy and Main PRESENTED IN THREE Policy Material VOLUMES: Volume 1: Foreword Overall Strategy & Main Policy Material Contents Sets out the general objectives of 1. Introduction to the Development Plan the Development Plan under a range of headings together with 2. Overall Strategy the planning principles that underpin them. 3. Settlement Policy 4. Employment and Economic Activity Volume 2: 5. Transport and Infrastructure Specific Objectives: Heritage and Amenity 6. Housing and Community Facilities Sets out, in detail, a range of specific heritage and amenity 7. Environment and Heritage objectives of the Development Plan, with particular attention to 8. Rural, Coastal and Islands the Record of Protected Structures. 9. Land Use Zoning 10. Local Area Development Volume 4: 11. Strategic Environmental Assessment Maps The map volume contains five main sets of maps: Heritage & Scenic Amenity; Metropolitan Cork Green Belt; Rural Housing Control Zone; Landscape Character Areas Appendices and Types Map and Architectural Conservation Areas. A. Housing Strategy B. Glossary of Terms used in this Plan CORK County Development Plan Edition 2, Issue 1: April 2006 2003 vii Overall Strategy and Main Policy Material Contents of Volume 1 CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION TO THE DEVELOPMENT PLAN 1 1.1 A new County Development Plan 2 Making the new plan 2 Purpose of the plan 2 Monitoring and Progress 3 1.2 The Process that has been followed 3 Initial Submissions 3 Planning Issues and Themes 4 Preparing the Draft Plan 6 Amending the Draft Plan 6 1.3 Form and Content of the Development Plan 7 Written Statement and Maps 7 Supplementary Documents and Plans 8 1.4 Variations to the County Development Plan 9 Procedure for varying the Development Plan 9 Schedule for Variations 9 CHAPTER 2: OVERALL STRATEGY 11 2.1 Growth and Development in County Cork 12 General Context 12 Population trends and forecasts 13 2.2 Main Planning Goals 16 2.3 Strategic Development Principles 17 Strategic Principles – Settlement Policy 17 Strategic Principles – Employment and Economic Activity 18 Strategic Principles – Transport and Infrastructure 18 Strategic Principles – Housing and Community