Proposed Curraheen Healthcare Campus

Uimhir Thagarta Uathúil: 
CRK-C155-DEV21-162
Stádas: 
Submitted
Aighneacht: 
Proposed Curraheen Healthcare Campus
Údar: 
McCutcheon Halley
Comhairliúchán: 
Draft Cork City Development Plan 2022-2028
Dáta a cuireadh isteach: 
03.10.2021 - 17:23

12. Land Use Zoning Objectives

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.