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Cavan County Development Plan 2022–2028 — Chapter 2
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- Vision To set out a clear framework for the sustainable development of the towns and villages of Cavan, by identifying sufficient suitable lands for future housing, industry, commerce, open space, recreation and community facilities, whilst, protecting and preserving the intrinsic character, heritage and amenity of each settlement and making a positive contribution to the improvement of quality of life. Policy SPP 01 To create a network of attractive, liveable towns and villages in the County with increased levels of population, employment activity and enhanced levels of amenity which support a high quality of life and well-being. Cavan County Development Plan 2022-2028 38 Cavan County Development Plan 2022-2028
- 2.1 Settlement Hierarchy Overview The Core Strategy sets out the settlement hierarchy for the County, which is founded on an asset-based approach to spatial development, identified and built on a combination of the social, economic and natural assets that are available within each settlement, in order to determine an overall growth strategy and its position on the settlement hierarchy. Core Strategy 39 Settlement Strategy Table 2.1 Settlement Hierarchy Category Description Towns Key Town County Town with large economically active services that provide employment for their surrounding areas and with high-quality transport links and the capacity to act as growth drivers. Cavan Town Self- Sustaining Growth Town* A sub-county town that has significant employment and service functions relative to its regional and local catchment, has good regional transport links and has the capacity for continued commensurate growth to become more self-sustaining. It supports the regional driver role of Cavan, and acts as an important local driver providing a range of functions for its resident population and its surrounding catchment including housing, employment, services, retail and leisure opportunities. The town should grow at a sustainable level appropriate to its position in the settlement hierarchy. Virginia Self- Sustaining Towns Self-Sustaining Towns with high levels of population growth but which require targeted ‘catch up’ investment to become more self-sustaining. Ballyjamesduff Bailieborough Kingscourt Cootehill Medium Towns Towns with a varied employment base and can be reliant on other areas for employment and/or services but which play an important role in supporting the social, economic and cultural life within rural communities. Belturbet Mullagh Ballyconnell Small Town Smaller Towns with local service and employment functions. Ballinagh Ballyhaise Shercock Killeshandra Arva Kilnaleck Villages Villages that serve their local area and have serviced land (lands that are able to connect to existing development services, i.e. road and footpath access including public lighting, foul sewer drainage, surface water drainage and water supply, for which there is service capacity available, and can therefore accommodate new development). Swanlinbar Butlersbridge Blacklion Loch Gowna Bawnboy, Crossdoney, Crosskeys, Dowra, Kilcogy, Mountnugent, Redhills Stradone Rural Community Nodes & Rural remainder Rural Community Nodes: unserviced rural areas with limited social and community infrastructure. Rural remaining areas Open countryside *Place of Strategic Potential
- TCFO 1 Policies and objectives specific to each individual settlement are contained within each individual Settlement Plan. Each settlement is defined by a development boundary wherein development of lands within this boundary / envelope will be prioritised. The revitalisation and regeneration of town centres and the concept of compact growth are key priority policies of this plan. The Council will favour and promote the development of infill, derelict or underutilised sites for residential, community, and, if deemed appropriate, mixed use purposes or a combination thereof. The scale and nature of development permissible for the settlement shall be appropriate to its position in the Settlement Hierarchy and shall be consistent with relevant Core Strategy Policies. Development proposals shall be required in their layout and design to respect and reinforce the character of the individual settlements. The Development Plan fully supports the provision of functionable, healthy and vibrant town centres, that are enjoyable places for living, working in and visiting, in line with the Government’s “Town Centre First” policy approach. The plan seeks to support the regeneration of underused town centres and encourage their appropriate redevelopment to ensure better permeability with a strong focus on the pedestrian. It is acknowledged that town centres are appropriate for a mix of developments alongside appropriately designed and sized pocket parks, public realm spaces, with an increased focus on walking and cycling. A strong emphasis is also placed on high quality urban design within town centres. Town centres need to be enhanced and upgraded and there is a need to maximise the usage of open spaces and the natural environment. This plan fully supports the creation of pedestrian friendly town centres. Town Centre First Policy Objective It is a development objective of Cavan County Council to: Reconsider the approach to town centres in light of their changing functions and encourage and support the incorporation of appropriate public realm spaces and the need to strengthen pedestrianisation within town centres, thus enhancing their vitality. Section 2.1.1 Settlement Consolidation Sites The National Planning Framework sets targets for brownfield/infill housing development of 30% in order to support the regeneration of existing urban areas. NPF compact growth objectives together with Town Centres First principles are focused on the reuse of previously developed buildings and land and building up ‘infill’ sites, especially those that are centrally located in settlements at all scales. The development plan process has a strategic role to play in facilitating new development and investment in settlements so that it can support the provision of new homes in areas of greatest housing demand as well as people living closer to employment, recreational opportunities and other services. Ensuring that a significant portion of new development reflects the compact growth and town centres first agenda is also a key dynamic in addressing climate change, through reducing dependence on car-based transport, the extent of green-field land consumption and costly and inefficient infrastructure provision and use. In formulating a framework for development, the development plan must therefore ensure that there is a close correlation between the identification of lands and sites for development with infrastructural capacity and spatially focused investment, while ensuring that a substantial element of future growth contributes to the regeneration of cities, towns and villages. In order to clearly demonstrate Cavan County Councils commitment to the revitalisation of the towns and villages of the County, as well as achieving the target of 30% of new homes to be in existing towns and villages built up footprints, each town and village has identified Settlement Consolidation Sites (on proposed residential lands) that identifies areas that will contribute to this commitment. Please note Table 11 which provides housing supply figures for both (a) town core, infill, brownfield and existing residential and (b) Settlement Consolidation Sites. The combination of both demonstrates the Council’s commitment to developing consolidated sustainable places. Cavan County Development Plan 2022-2028 40 Cavan County Development Plan 2022-2028
- Settlement Consolidation Sites Development Objectives It is a development objective of Cavan County Council to: Support the regeneration of underused town centre and brownfield/infill lands, promote measures to reduce vacancy and the underuse of existing building stock and support initiatives that promote the reuse, refurbishment and retrofitting of existing buildings within urban centres and targeted settlements in the County in order to achieve sustainable compact growth targets of 30% of all new housing to be built within the existing urban footprint of targeted settlements in the County. Require at least 30% of all new homes that are targeted in settlements to be located within the existing built-up footprint of the settlements, in an effort to make settlements more compact and reduce unsustainable urban sprawl and ribbon development. SCZ 01 SCZ 02 Core Strategy 41 Settlement Strategy
- Figure 2.1 The town of Cavan 1591 2.2 Key Town Cavan Cavan Town Local Area Plan 2022-2028 2.2.1 Introduction The Regional Spatial and Economic Strategy (RSES) acknowledges the key role Cavan Town performs, being the largest town within the Cavan/ Monaghan/Leitrim sub-region and being the town which experienced the largest growth within the past 10 years. It has strategic facilities such as the acute hospital, Cavan Institute, Local Authority Headquarters, Agricultural College, Cathedrals and Sports Stadium. The Cavan Institute provides a range of Level 5 (Certificate) and Level 6 (Advanced/Higher Certificate) courses. The RSES acknowledges that Cavan town is well positioned to deliver the principal strategic function within this sub-region in terms of housing, job delivery and education. As there is no longer a Town Council for Cavan Town, the 2014-2020 Cavan Town Development Plan will be superseded by the Cavan Town Local Area Plan 2022-2028. Section 19 (1)(b)(ii) of the Planning and Development Act, as amended, indicates a town with a population of over 5,000 requires the preparation of a Local Area Plan. Cavan Town, with a population, (Census 2016) of 10,914 persons, requires a Local Area Plan. The Cavan Town Local Area Plan 2022-2028 is merged with the new Cavan County Development Plan 2022-2028. The visions, policies, objectives, standards and guidance contained within the Cavan County Development Plan 2022-2028, as outlined throughout the Plan and associated appendices and maps, apply to the Cavan Town Local Area Plan 2022-2028. Cavan County Development Plan 2022-2028 42 Cavan County Development Plan 2022-2028
- CTD 01 Cavan Town General Development Objectives It is a development objective of Cavan County Council to: Apply the visions, policies, objectives, standards and guidance contained within the Cavan County Development Plan 2022-2028, as outlined throughout the Plan and associated appendices and maps, to the Cavan Town Local Area Plan 2022-2028. 2.2.2 History Cavan owes its origins to the Franciscan Friary founded c.1300 by Giolla Iosa O’Reilly, King of East Breifne. The Friary was built in the valley of the Cavan River over-looked by O’Reilly’s Castle. The Francians had many friaries throughout the country, and this was the case for Cavan with the establishment of St. Mary’s Abbey. One can trace the development of Cavan Town around the friary and the castle. By the middle of the fifteenth century, the town was both the seat of the O’Reilly’s and a thriving market town. In 1610, Cavan was the first Ulster town to be incorporated and receive a borough charter, a document which set out a framework for economic and political development of the town. The battle of Cavan in 1690 once again saw the destruction of the town core. Farnham Street by contrast was formally designed and laid out by John James Maxwell, Lord Farnham whose intention it was to gentrify the town. The town lies within an archaeological zone indicating zones of archaeological potential, within which archaeological deposits may exist as well as surviving upstanding pre-1700 AD remains thus indicating the extent of the archaeological heritage of the town. 2.2.3 Town Character As the largest and county town of Cavan, Cavan town is recognised in the RSES as a Key Town. The town is centrally located in the County making it an ideal location to serve as the administrative centre. Based on the Census of Ireland 2016 Small Areas data, it is estimated that there are approximately 17,990 persons within a 10-minute drive of Cavan town centre. Cavan town has much to offer in terms of services, housing and education, including four number primary schools, four number secondary schools, Cavan Institute as well as varied sporting and recreation facilities. These include Cavan Town Hall, Cavan County Golf Course, Cavan Lawn Tennis Club, GAA, Soccer, Rugby, Cavan Equestrian Centre, cinema, bars, restaurants and hotels. Cavan Town is strategically located on the N3 corridor with reasonably good links to Dublin and Belfast and is in close proximity to the border. With the N3 bypass in close proximity to the town centre, along with the fact that Cavan town is in close proximity to large towns such as Bailieborough, Virginia Cootehill, Belturbet and Ballyconnell, it provides ease of access to a sizeable population catchment. Deriving its name from the Irish word for ‘The Hallow’, Cavan town has difficult topography. This has led to the requirement for innovative design on difficult sites in the town centre, along with the growth of the town with various neighbourhood centres a further distance from the town core. These have created sustainable smaller community areas within the overall town population. The nature of low lying ground with interspersed drumlins in Cavan Town, provides a significant challenge to development in terms of compact growth, connectivity and density of development, Cavan town has a well-defined central town core, which is mainly consolidated between the two prominent streets of Farnham Street and Main Street, both running north south. These streets have defining characteristics and have been at the heart of the historic development and daily life of the town. Surrounding the central core are predominately mixed-use development, mainly residential, sport, education and retail. There are a number of sporting uses and amenity spaces in close proximity to the town core. To the east of the town core, the town gateway approach from the Dublin road is a local employment centre containing predominately retail uses. 2.2.4 National and Regional Context 2.2.4.1 National Planning Framework - First Revision The National Planning Framework has noted the significant influence of Dublin to most of County Cavan. It has recognised the easterly focus of the County and stresses the need to address economic resilience and connectivity. The maintenance of Core Strategy 43 Settlement Strategy
- 44 Cavan County Development Plan 2022-2028 seamless cross-border movement for people, goods and services, together with improvements in digital and physical infrastructure will create new opportunities to leverage employment and for sustainable population growth, focused on the county towns like Cavan. Enhanced connectivity would result in this area being strategically located almost equidistant between the Dublin, Belfast and Derry City regions in terms of time, as well as distance. The Cavan Town Local Area Plan adheres to a suite of Specific Measures in the National Planning Framework, including: NPO9 Deliver at least 30% of all new homes that are targeted in settlements other than the five Cities and their suburbs, within their existing built-up footprints and ensure compact and sequential patterns of growth. NPO12 Ensure the creation of attractive, liveable, well designed, high quality urban places that are home to diverse and integrated communities that enjoy a high quality of life and well-being. NPO13 Develop cities and towns of sufficient scale and quality to compete internationally and to be drivers of national and regional growth, investment and prosperity. NPO14 Regenerate and rejuvenate cities, towns and villages of all types and scale as environmental assets that can accommodate changing roles and functions, increased residential population and employment activity enhanced levels of amenity and design and placemaking quality, in order to sustainably influence and support their surrounding area to ensure progress towards national achievement of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. NPO15 Apply a tailored approach to urban development linked to the Rural and Urban Regeneration and Development Funds, with a particular focus on: - Dublin - The four cities of Cork, Limerick, Galway and Waterford Cavan County Development Plan 2022-2028 - Strengthening Ireland’s overall urban structure, particularly in the Northern and Western and Midland Regions, to include the regional centres of Sligo and Letterkenny in the North- West, Athlone in the Midlands and cross-border network focused in the Letterkenny-Derry North-West City Region and Drogheda- Dundalk-Newry on the Dublin-Belfast corridor - Encouraging population growth in strong employment and service centres of all sizes, supported by employment growth; - Reversing the stagnation or decline of many smaller urban centres, by identifying and establishing new roles and functions and enhancement of local infrastructure and amenities. - Addressing the legacy of rapid unplanned growth, by facilitating amenities and services catch-up and/or improved sustainable transport links to the cities, together with a slower rate of population growth in recently expanded commuter settlements of all sizes. - In more self contained settlements of all sizes, supporting a continuation of balanced population and employment growth. NPO19 Regional and Local Authorities to identify and quantify locations for strategic employment development, where suitable, in urban and rural areas generally. NPO20 In meeting urban development requirements, there will be a presumption in favour of development that can encourage more people and generate more jobs and activity within existing cities, towns and villages, subject to development meeting appropriate planning standards and achieving targeted growth. NPO32 Enhance the competitiveness of rural areas by supporting innovation in rural economic development and enterprise through the diversification of the rural economy into new sectors and services, including ICT-based industries and those addressing climate change and sustainability. 44
- 2.2.4.2 Regional Spatial and Economic Strategy The Northern and Western Regional Spatial and Economic Strategy outlines how “Cavan Town performs a regional function, being the largest town within the Cavan/Monaghan/Leitrim subregion and being the town which experienced the largest growth within the past 10 years. It has strategic facilities such as an acute hospital, Cavan Institute, Local Authority Headquarters, Agricultural College, Cathedrals and Sports Stadium. The Cavan Institute provides a range of Level 5 (Certificate) and Level 6 (Advanced/Higher Certificate) courses in the fields of accountancy, architectural design and technology, digital marketing, software development and animal care. Cavan is well positioned to deliver the principal strategic function within the sub-region in terms of housing, job delivery and education.” A number of key priorities have been identified in the RSES for Cavan Town: 45 NPO36 Support the objectives of public health policy including the Healthy Ireland Framework and the National Physical Activity Plan, though integrating such policies, where appropriate and at the applicable scale, with planning policy. NPO37 Ensure the integration of safe and convenient alternatives to the car into the design of our communities, by prioritising walking and cycling accessibility to both existing and proposed developments, and integrating physical activity facilities for all ages. NPO45 Increase residential density in settlements, through a range of measures including reductions in vacancy, reuse of existing buildings, infill development schemes, area or site-based regeneration increased building height and more compact forms of development. NPO67 Support the circular and bio economy including in particular through greater efficiency in land and materials management, promoting the sustainable re-use and refurbishment of existing buildings and structures while conserving cultural and natural heritage, the greater use of renewable resources and by reducing the rate of land use change from urban sprawl and new development. NPO69 Reduce our carbon footprint by integrating climate action into the planning system in support of national targets for climate policy mitigation and adaptation objectives, as well as targets for greenhouse gas emissions reductions as expressed in the most recently adopted carbon budgets. NPO89 Protect, conserve and enhance the rich qualities of natural, cultural and built heritage of Ireland in a manner appropriate to their cultural and environmental significance. Settlement Strategy
- CNR 01 CNR 02 Key Future Priorities: M Build upon its excellent Jobs to Resident Workers ratio of 1.388, clearly demonstrating the important regional function that Cavan Town performs. M Promote Cavan Town as an attractive investment location for the County, utilising Cavan County Economic Forum and building upon the towns proven track record as an excellent investment location, which is aided by the IDA business park in the town. M Promote the delivery of third-level education in the Cavan/Monaghan sub-region, building on the foundations and success of the Cavan Institute. M Promote the development of the Abbeylands Cultural Quarter to regenerate this important town centre site with vibrant town centres uses, new pedestrian street and public spaces. M Develop a regional standard multi-sports facility to service the current and future needs of the town and wider county. M Support the development of Cavan General Hospital as the regional centre for this subregion M Build on the development of Cavan Town as a tourism destination capitalising on its location as a link between Ireland’s Ancient East and Ireland’s Hidden Heartlands including the regional flagship destination of Killykeen Forest Park which attracts circa 80,000 visitors per annum. M Support the delivery of Cavan Town Digital Hub that aims to attract and safeguard investment in the digital and technology related sectors, create jobs through entrepreneurship, stimulate digital start-ups and innovative enterprise and develop a ‘Digital Cluster’ ecosystem. M Support the implementation the Cavan Town Transportation Plan to ensure infrastructure enables the organic growth of the town. M Support the delivery of additional economic development lands in Cavan Town recognising the lack of suitably zoned lands. M Support the actions set out in the Cavan Town Revitalisation Plan. The RSES outlines its support for the collaborative preparation of Local Transport Plans in conjunction with the NTA and other stakeholders, based on Area Based Transport Assessment (ABTA) guidance. The LTP will inform the Urban Area Plans, Development Plans, Local Area Plans and other planning framework documents. Local Transport Plans (LTP) integrate land use and transport planning and achieve the NPF’s objective of ‘compact smart growth’. They will be subject to further transportation and environmental assessment at local level as appropriate based on guidance available. LTPs will be based on a clear set of objectives and the most recent demographic and travel information taking into account the policies and objectives of the Local Authorities, insofar as they align with those of National and Regional Policy. Local Link Offices (Transport Coordination Units) will be consulted in the development of LTPs. Cavan Town General Development Objectives It is a development objective of Cavan County Council to: Proactively support the delivery of the Key Future Priorities of the Regional Spatial and Economic Strategy for Cavan Town. Support the implementation of the Cavan Town Transportation Plan 2007 and commence the preparation within one year of the adoption of the Local Area Plan, of a new Local Transport Plan. 2.2.5 Strategy and Vision The Core Strategy projects that the population of Cavan Town will grow to 12,674 people over this Local Area Plan period. This will be achieved by the development in the town core, existing brownfield sites and in mixed use zonings in addition to the zoning of Proposed Residential Lands within the settlement boundary to accommodate this projected growth. To provide for an alternative to one off housing lands have been provided for Low Density development. In this settlement strategy Cavan Town is identified as a Key Town that will be promoted in driving growth and economic development. It is described as a large economically active town with high quality transport links and the capacity to act as a growth driver. Cavan County Development Plan 2022-2028 46 Cavan County Development Plan 2022-2028
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