Litir Chumhdaigh
This submission in response to the publication of the Draft Cork City Development Plan has been prepared by McCutcheon Halley, on behalf of Grangefield Developments Ltd. who are the owners of the lands at the former Clifton Convalescent Home, Montenotte
See attached submission
We therefore ask the Council to rezone the property for residential use subject to the requirement that a development brief be prepared to protect any features of landscape value
The former Clifton Convalescent Home at Montenotte is a particularly appropriate site for rezoning given that:
(a) when the restrictive landscape zoning was introduced for the Montenotte Ridge in the 2004 City Plan, Clifton was left out of both the Ridge Protection and the Landscape Protection Zones and was fully zoned for residential development;
(b) no adequate evidence or justification was given for the partial redesignation of Clifton as LPZ NE8 in the 2009 City Plan.
(c) the net effect of the current zoning is that the development potential of this infill/brownfield site has been restricted to 6.6 units per ha.