Untitled - Cork City Council

Cork Strategic Retail Study
Table 4.5 Estimated Expenditure In Retail Warehouses In The Previous Twelve Months
City and
Douglas
Rest of
Metropolitan
Area Ring North Far west
Average exp per household (€) 635.3 818.5 536.8 613.9 237.5
Average household size (persons) 2.7 3.0 2.9 2.5 3.2
Average RWH exp per capita (€) 234.2 274.7 185.1 249.2 75.4
4.29 The results of such a question can only be taken as indicative and in the next section
we make adjustments to these figures to take account of separate estimates of the
trade of Study Area retail warehouses. But we retain the variation between the five
zones which is plausible in terms of access to retail warehouses. The per-household
figures are highest in the first two zones, where access is highest. They are lowest in
the remote Far West zone. The North zone appears to be an anomaly but residents of
this zone have access to the concentration of retail warehouses at Limerick (the
sample size in this zone is also small).
Views About The Centres
4.30 Respondents were asked whether they were happy with the range and quality of
shopping on offer. In all zones the great majority said they were very happy or
somewhat happy with the shopping they could access. The proportions were no
smaller in the remote North and Far West zones, where shopping facilities are sparse.
Clearly, respondents were making allowance for this remoteness and felt that taking it
into account, the shopping they could get to was in most cases good.
4.31 Overall, the main criticisms concerned the range of shops available. Interestingly, this
applied even in the inner zones and to Cork City centre as well as the other two most
frequently mentioned centres – Mallow and Youghal.
Roger Tym & Partners with Simon Clear & Associates
March 2008 29