Our clients have an overall landholding of 1.47 Ha at Ballyvolane, Cork City. This land is located within a District Centre/ Retail zoning in the adopted Local Area Plan. The Draft Cork City Development Plan 2022 unjustifiably proposes to rezone these lands for Public Open Space.

We believe that there may have been deliberations in preparing the Draft Development Plan whether to retain part of our client’s site within the District Centre zoning.

This submission requests that 0.49Ha of this land is included within the Sustainable Residential Neighbourhood Zoning in the Cork City Development Plan 2022-2028. This part of our client’s site is suitable for residential development and its residential zoning must be considered