The purpose of this submission is to outline Freefoam Plastics Limited’s objection to the proposed Zoning Amendment No.: 2.17 as presented in Part 2: Volume 2 (Mapped Objectives) of the published Proposed Material Alterations to the Cork City Draft Development Plan 2022-2028, and request that the ZO 2 New Residential Neighbourhoods zoning as presented in the Cork City Draft Development Plan 2022-2028 published 26th July 2021, be maintained.

We further confirm that the lands now proposed to be zoned for the purposes of ZO 17 Sports Ground and Facilities proposed under Zoning Amendment No.: 2.17, is proposed in an inappropriate location removed from the educational ZO 13 Education zoned lands located north of Centre Park Road, being physically and visually severed from the Marina Park Concept and Párc Uí Chaoimh with associated sporting facilities, is irregular in form and proposed in a location which would significantly undermine the intended orderly development of Freefoam Plastics Limited’s lands in an wholistic and orderly manner.

Freefoam Plastics Limited supports the plan-led regeneration of Cork City Docks as an exemplar development for regeneration and design quality in Europe, and express concerns as the proposed Zoning Amendment No.: 2.17 appears to be without any substance, basis or justification presented within the documentation published as part of the Alterations/Amendment to Draft Plan Process in the preparation of the new Cork City Development Plan 2022-2028.