Proposed Curraheen Healthcare Campus

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This submission is made on behalf of Curraheen European Healthcare Ltd. who have an interest in the lands at Curraheen which adjoin the Marymount University Hospital and Hospice to the west and south. The purpose of this submission is to seek an adjustment of the boundary of the City Hinterland at Curraheen to provide a more appropriate zoning objective for the Marymount campus and make provision on some of the adjoining lands for the new healthcare and ancillary facilities, including dementia care which are likely to be required in this area during the period of the next City Plan.

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Caibidil:

Volume 1 - Written Statement » 12. Land Use Zoning Objectives

Ábhair:

Land use zoning objectives

Community and infrastructure

See attached submission

Sustainable Development

health services

care homes

Príomh-thuairim:

A major shortfall in the provision of residential care homes is like to emerge from the combination of:

(a) The increasing demand from the rapidly growing and ageing population of the Cork Metropolitan Area for care homes in general and particularly for those specialising in dementia care;

(b) Increasing obsolescence within the existing stock and the need to adapt existing facilities to provide specialised services such as dementia care and to achieve the new standards which will now be required as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic;

(c) The need for more sustainable locations for care homes so that they are close to existing centres of population and accessible to high frequency public transport.

Príomh-iarratais:

That the existing campus and some of the adjoining lands to the west be specifically zoned for Institutional and Community Use (ZO 14).

Main reasons:

The Curraheen area is particularly suitable for further healthcare and ancillary development due to:

• Proximity to Cork University Hospital and Cork University Dental Hospital.

• Location on the high frequency 208 bus route which already links the major city healthcare sites.

• Proximity to the new public transport and cycle networks proposed by CMATS.

• Immediate access to a wide regional catchment via the N40 national route.

• Proximity to a wide range of medical and pharmaceutical research facilities at University College Cork, Munster Technological University and Cork Science and Innovation Park.

Ceangaltáin:

Curraheen Healthcare Submission .pdf

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Proposed Curraheen Healthcare Campus

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