Enabling infrastructure: Identify Infrastructure capacity issues and ensure water / waste water needs, municipal and C&D waste capacity issues are met by national projects. Improve sustainability in terms of energy, waste management and resource efficiency and water, to include district heating and water conservation. Co-ordination and active land management: Enhanced co-ordination across local authorities and agencies to promote more active urban development and land management policies that focus on the development of under-utilised, brownfield, vacant and public lands. Re-intensify employment within the City and suburbs at strategic locations well-connected to public transport. Activate strategic employment opportunities to complement existing employment hubs in the city and metropolitan area. Any future strategic growth areas should not compromise the delivery of more sustainable regeneration and consolidation of existing strategic sites more suitable for delivery under the Cork MASP Objectives.
Social regeneration: Realise opportunities for social as well as physical regeneration, particularly in areas with pockets of deprivation such as RAPID areas. Future development areas: Having regard to the NPF targets to 2040, the role of the Cork Metropolitan Area in the State and Region and the long lead in time for planning and development, identify future strategic growth areas that may be delivered beyond the lifetime of the RSES. Such areas will be identified by the Local authorities through City and County Development Plan Core Strategies and adhere to the achievement of compact growth principles, integration of land use and transport planning, the distribution of growth guided through the Cork Metropolitan Area Transport Strategy and fulfilling criteria set out under Goal 7 for all MASPs. Metropolitan scale amenities: Provision and enhancement of regional parks, recreation and sports amenities, natural amenity and habitat protection, strategic green infrastructure including walking, cycling, greenways and blueways in an integrated network across the Cork Metropolitan Area.
Cork MASP Policy Objective 5
b. It is an objective to ensure quality infrastructure and quality of place is prioritised as an incentive to attract people to live and work in sustainable settlement patterns in the metropolitan area.
Investment to Deliver Vision a. It is an objective to seek the identification of investment packages across State Departments and infrastructure delivery agencies as they apply to the Cork Metropolitan Area and seek further investments into the Cork MASP area to deliver targets boosting population and jobs and to deliver on the seven Metropolitan Area Goals (see Volume III).
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