▪ Our client’s lands occupy an important strategic position within Metropolitan Cork, forming part of the city’s suburbs at Castletreasure, Douglas. Our client welcomes the proposed zoning of the northern end of their lands as “ZO-

02 New Residential Neighbourhood”.

▪ The draft plan includes a Tier 3 zoning, which are strategic lands necessary for long-term planning of infrastructure, given the ambition growth target set out in the NPF, but also provide for substitution of Tier 1 or Tier 2 lands that do not come forward for development within this Plan period, where appropriate. The southern end of our client’s lands are currently zoned as the Metropolitan Greenbelt under the Draft Plan. However, it is considered that these lands are perfectly suited to be zoned as “Tier 3 – ZO-03: Residential Neighbourhood”.

▪ We request that the remainder of our client’s lands be

zoned as “Tier 3 – ZO-03: Residential Neighbourhood”.

We respectfully request that the planning authority give consideration to the issues raised in this submission and we trust that our submission will be taken into account as part of the consultation process for the review of the Cork City Council Development Plan.