• The construction of a Digital Collaboration Centre by Innovate Limerick, • The World Class Waterfront Project along the River Shannon to reinvent the City Quays as the main entertainment and leisure destination for the City. • Climate resilience measures including CFRMAs Flood Relief Scheme for the City Centre.
• The growth and development of health care facilities as proposed by the University Hospital Limerick in their Strategic Plan, • Delivery of the Limerick Northern Distributor Road (LNDR) – a key strategic infrastructure priority for the Region. • Progressing the sustainable phased development of areas for housing and the development of support public transport and infrastructure, in areas such as Mungret. • The continued expansion of the City’s third level institutions and integration with the wider city and Region, including the provision of specific facilities to address educational and social deprivation
Limerick-Shannon MASP Policy Objective 2
Limerick-Shannon The Limerick-Shannon MASP recognises that for the Limerick-Shannon Metropolitan Area and the Mid- West to prosper and develop in a sustainable manner, a strong Limerick City is paramount. It is an objective to: a. Support the regeneration and continued investment into Limerick City through initiatives such as Limerick 2030 and Limerick Regeneration and to further enhance Limerick City as a primary economic driver for the Southern Region. b. Enhance the City Centre as the primary commercial area, supporting a range of retail, tourism, social and cultural activities. c. Strengthen the consolidation and regeneration of Limerick City Centre to drive its role as a vibrant living, retailing and working city, the economic,
social and cultural heart of the Limerick-Shannon Metropolitan Area and Region. d. Seek investment to achieve brownfield regeneration of City Centre sites as high quality, mixed use sustainable and transformative projects which set national and international good practice standards in innovation, quality design, exemplary urbanism and placemaking. e. Support collaboration between Limerick City and County Council and the Land Development Agency to masterplan and sustainably develop strategic City Centre and Dockland sites in Limerick City, utilising the appropriate planning mechanisms and subject to required environmental assessments. f. Seek investment to achieve regeneration and consolidation in the city suburbs.
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