Housing for All in the City Centre

Uimhir Thagarta Uathúil: 
CRK-C155-DEV21-35
Stádas: 
Submitted
Aighneacht: 
More city centre housing and green spaces
Údar: 
Ryan Mac Sweeney
Comhairliúchán: 
Draft Cork City Development Plan 2022-2028

3. Delivering Homes and Communities

Caibidil: 
Volume 1 - Written Statement » 3. Delivering Homes and Communities
Ábhair: 
Delivering homes and sustainable neighbourhoods
A diverse, inclusive and equal city
Residential density and housing mix

I want to see more and more new homes built in the city centre in the years to come in order to cater for the increase in population in the 20 years as part of Project Ireland 2040. With all the new office and hotel developments either in the planning, stage or under construction at the moment it means there will be a large increase in the number of people working in the city centre so as a result we need more housing for them. In addition the number of young people locked out of the housing market, families who cant afford to buy a home or single people who are forced to live with their parents well into adulthood there needs to be more social, affordable and cost rental homes built. The only way for the housing crisis to end is that more social, affordable and cost rental homes are built especially in the city centre.

Main opinion: 

If there are more homes built in the city centre that means less traffic on the roads, more parking spaces as well as cleaner air and less dereliction in the city centre.

Main requests: 

I want to see more and more new homes built in the city centre in the years to come in order to cater for the increase in population in the 20 years as part of Project Ireland 2040.

Main reasons: 

My motivation for my submission is the lack of affordable housing in the city centre with many people forced to move to the suburbs to live. This results in severe traffic congestion especially at peak times and with the return of offices in a weeks time and also the number of new office developments either completed, under construction or in the planning stages this is going to mean more people working in the city centre in the years to come.