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x Volume One: Written Statement 11 “ significant improvements to its recreational infrastructure over the last 10 years” 146 Draft Cork City Development Plan 2015-2021
Chapter 11: Recreational Infrastructure x CHAPTER 11 RECREATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE Introduction 11.1 The protection and enhancement of recreational infrastructure for health, recreational, landscape, biodiversity, and connectivity reasons, has significant benefits for Cork and the quality of life that it can offer to its citizens and those that visit the city. 11.2 Cork City has intensified over the past 20 years and will continue to intensify in the future as a response to strategically co-ordinated land use and transport. Given the geography and landscape of Cork it is essential that existing recreational assets are retained, enhanced and added to in order to provide for the existing city population as well as the needs of new residents and employees that will populate major development areas. These assets are not only important to the city and its constituent neighbourhoods but the wider metropolitan area, as well as the City’s appeal for tourism and international capital. The assets are also of wider significance in relation to drainage / flooding and climate change. 11.3 Cork will progress the delivery of a recreational infrastructure strategy that supports the health of its citizens. A coherent plan for recreational infrastructure will ensure that the recreation and open space needs of citizens is met but will also help to ensure the protection of Cork’s natural assets including landscape, green spaces, biodiverse areas and also provide significant urban design benefits for the city. There is also a very strong link to improving the overall connectivity of the city and to its wider metropolitan area (as set out in Chapter 10: Landscape and Natural Heritage). 11.4 Recreational infrastructure is provided by a range of organisations, including the City Council, the private sector, third sector organisations, and through the delivery of development. It is the combination of all of these components that ensures that the city’s recreational needs are met. Public spaces, including open spaces and streets, provide key focal points for neighbourhoods and include a mix of activities and uses appropriate to their location, scale and context. 11 Achievements 11.5: Cork has made significant improvements to its recreational infrastructure over the last 10 years, building on its fantastic landscape assets that together combine to make a strong and clear framework based upon the River Lee Corridor and pre-existing spaces and facilities. • A number of new parks and open spaces have been developed over the last few years, including the Military Cemetery (The Glen) and Bridevalley Park. Many other projects are close to delivery; • Active sports facilities have been provided, including sports pitches at Mahon, All-Weather Pitches at The Glen and Changing Pavilions at Pophams Park and Fair Field; • In making the city more child-friendly six public playgrounds have been completed and refurbishments to existing playgrounds are also part of the ongoing work of the City Council; • Allotments / community gardens have been provided at a number of locations on the northside of the city. Draft Cork City Development Plan 2015-2021 147
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