A number of residents and land owners in Farmers Cross have concerns relating to the Airport Development Safeguard & Framework area ZO 23. We feel that we have been overlooked in this new area boundary and can only speculate as to this proposed zoning of their properties and the implications this may have for their value and protection.
Objective 10.51
Strategic Development
of Cork Airport
During the lifetime of the Plan, Cork City Council in co-operation with Dublin Airport Authority and in consultation with other relevant stakeholders including Transport Infrastructure Ireland, National Transport Authority and Cork County Council will prepare a framework plan to allow for the co-ordinated and sustainable growth of the Airport to underpin its function as an economic driver for the Southern Region.
The relevant area for a new framework plan which will be prepared and adopted during the lifetime of this plan is delineated in Volume 2 Mapped Objectives. The Framework Plan will provide for a coherent and coordinated land use plan for the Airport and its immediate environs.
Objective 10.52
Airport Safeguard Area
This objective is intended to safeguard the sustainable development of the Airport. All proposed developments within this area will be referred to the Irish Aviation Authority by Cork City Council’s Development Management Section to seek their observations as part of the statutory planning process under Section 28 of the Planning and Development Regulations, 2001.
In addition, the construction of one-off housing will generally not be permitted save for exceptional circumstances such as those actively engaged in farming. Additional requirements for the construction of dwellings in this area are set out in the Cork Airport Chapter.
This is leaving us residents and land owners very uncertain about the future our homes have. Surely the Airport Safeguard Framework cannot overlook over 50 homes immediately North of the Airport and decide to simply swallow up the community and put in place new strict planning rules.
While we support future growth and expansion of the Airport we feel that we should be excluded from this new proposed zone and the new planning restrictions along with it.
Please see attached submission relating to these points.
I respectfully ask that the points herein are addressed by the City Council in the new City Development Plan.
Yours sincerely,
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Susan Duggan