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Report from D Kavanagh

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Reps Report Housing SPC April 23rd  2025

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Report D Kavanagh

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Report submitted by D Harley

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Reps Reporting Template denis Harley CCC 17 feb 26

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Report from K Long & P McCarthy

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 Strategic, Economic Development, Enterprise & Planning SPC Meetings for 2026

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Only Strategic, Economic Development, Enterprise & Planning PPN Reps attend these meetings - they are closed to members of the public.

Mon 16th February @5.30

Mon 20th April @5.30

Mon 15th June @5.30

Mon 19th October @5.30

Mon 21st December @5.30

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Transport & Mobility SPC Meetings for 2026

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Transport & Mobility SPC Meetings for 2026

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Mon 16th February @4pm

Mon 20th April @4pm

Mon 15th June @4pm

Mon 19th October @4pm

Mon 21st December @4pm

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Tues 17th February @5.30pm

Tues 21st April @5.30pm

Tues 16th June @5.30pm

Tues 20th October @5.30pm

Tues 22nd December @5.30pm

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Housing, Planning & Transport Linkage Group Meeting Dates for 2026 

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Housing, Planning & Transport Linkage Group Meeting Dates for 2026 

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Q1: February 3rd @6pm

Q2: April 15th @6pm

Q3: June 23rd @6pm

Q4: October 22nd @6pm

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Letter to Director of Services for Housing in Cork City Council in relation to Housing issues raised at Linkage Group 

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Letter to Director of Services for Housing in Cork City Council in relation to Housing issues raised at Linkage Group 

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Letter to City Council in relation to Make Way Day 2025

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Letter to City Council in relation to Make Way Day 2025

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Has also requested that Diversity, Disability & Inclusion Linkage Group members be made aware of the letter (through the facilitator) as relevant to them.

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Cork City PPN call on the following to be brought to the Housing SPC: "When retrofitting any property, the lifetime design with accessibility is kept in mind throughout the retrofit. Keeping in mind low maintenance, both internally and externally, on the property should also be a priority. When dealing with council stock, City Council should meet legal requirements for accessibility"

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Cork City PPN call on the following to be brought to the Housing SPC: "When retrofitting any property, the lifetime design with accessibility is kept in mind throughout the retrofit. Keeping in mind low maintenance, both internally and externally, on the property should also be a priority. When dealing with council stock, City Council should meet legal requirements for accessibility"

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Proposed: D J. Fitzpatrick (Blackpool Community Association), Seconded: G.O'Keefe (Cork DPO) at Linkage Group meeting on Nov 5th 2025.

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December 2025 | Transport & Mobility SPC

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December 2025 | Transport & Mobility SPC

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Report from K Long & P McCarthy

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Report from D Kavanagh

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October 2025 | Strategic, Economic Development, Enterprise & Planning SPC

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October 2025 | Strategic, Economic Development, Enterprise & Planning SPC

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Registration for next Linkage Group meeting

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Registration for next Linkage Group meeting

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Next Housing, Planning Transport Linkage Group Meeting taking place on Wednesday, April 15th 2026.

Registration Link here: https://form.jotform.com/corkcityppn/housing-planning-amp-transport-Q2

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Outreach Events for Stakeholders in Multi- Unit Developments 2025 | 22 October Event

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Outreach Events for Stakeholders in Multi- Unit Developments 2025 | 22 October Event

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Outreach Events for Stakeholders in Multi- Unit Developments 2025 | The Housing Agency

Clayton Silver Springs Hotel, Cork - Wednesday, 22 October 2025

Multi-unit developments (MUDs) are estates where an owners’ management company, or OMC for short, is responsible for maintaining shared facilities such as gardens, amenity spaces, halls, corridors, and parking. These managed estates are often apartment buildings or duplexes. They can also be townhouses or stand-alone houses that share common facilities. The quality and the sustainability of the built environment enjoyed by these communities rely on well-run OMCs.

With the increasing number of apartments across the country, The Housing Agency is holding evening information meetings for stakeholders, including residents, owners, and directors of OMCs.

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Cork City PPN calls on Cork City Council to provide a report on Street Clutter in Cork City

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Cork City PPN calls on Cork City Council to provide a report on Street Clutter in Cork City

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Drop in session on Vacancy and Dereliction

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Drop in session on Vacancy and Dereliction

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Do you own a derelict or vacant property in the [...] area?

Cork City Council are holding a public session aimed at informing members of the public on the supports available to refurbish vacant and derelict properties, including the popular Vacant Property Refurbishment Grant.

[Date, Time, Various]

For more information, go to: https://www.corkcity.ie/en/council-services/services/planning/vacancy-derelict-sites-and-residential-zoned-land-tax/ or email DerelictSites@corkcity.ie and VacantProperties@corkcity.ie

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Community Action Tenants Union – We only want the Earth

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This video from Kevin Collins looks at the Urban Fabric of Cork City, and explores how we build a city that works for people — not just policy?

This video was the topic of Kevin Collin's presentation at the September 2025 Linkage Group meeting.

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Feb 2025 | Economic Development and Planning SPC Report 

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REPORT SPC Economic Development and Planning 17 February 2025 DHH

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Report from Kevin Long

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How Inadequate Housing Shapes Child and Parental Wellbeing

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How Inadequate Housing Shapes Child and Parental Wellbeing

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Report recommended by Katherine Harford, Executive Director, Let’s Grow Together! Infant & Childhood Partnerships CLG

https://www.esri.ie/publications/housing-health-and-happiness-how-inadequate-housing-shapes-child-and-parental-0

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June 2025 | Housing Strategic Policy Committee

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OCTOBER 2023. Exploring vacant homes - particularly long-term vacancy, in Cork.

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October 2023 | Reps Report: Roads and Transport Strategic Policy Committee 

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Presentation from Thomas Erbsloh, Community Worker with the Traveller Visability Group to Linkage Group | 13-06-23

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Youtube video with presentation slides of the position paper "Traveller Homelessness: A hidden crisis"

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Traveller Homelessness: A Hidden Crisis - Position Paper Recommendations

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"The Traveller Community and Homelessness" Pavee Point and Brian Harvey 2021

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"The Traveller Community and Homelessness" Pavee Point and Brian Harvey 2021

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Rory Hearne: Opinion Article in the Irish Examiner; "Travellers bear the brunt of homeless crisis"

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Rory Hearne: Opinion Article in the Irish Examiner; "Travellers bear the brunt of homeless crisis"

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"It's like an abandoned place that people forgot about, it's like we're forgotten, we feel like garbage."

That's the direct experience of a 12-year-old girl, living in a halting site, explained to the Ombudsman for Children.

In the early hours of October 2015, a fire broke out at a halting site in Carrickmines in South Dublin. Ten Travellers lost their lives in that tragedy including five children

Yet what has fundamentally changed since then? Why are Travellers still left in horrendous, unacceptable, living conditions?

The reported just last month that the Department of Housing identified a 'serious risk of loss of life' for Traveller families living at the Spring Lane halting site in Cork.

The accommodation crisis for Travellers has worsened further in recent years with the emergence of a major homelessness crisis.

In a hard-hitting report being launched tomorrow, the Cork and Kerry Regional Traveller Accommodation Working Group (RTAWG) outlines in stark detail this "hidden homelessness" crisis. It's vital reading for anyone concerned with basic human rights in this country.

A quarter of homeless children living in emergency accommodation outside of Dublin are Travellers. A parent, who is a Traveller and homeless, describes living in emergency accommodation:

"My partner and I and the three small children have been living in hotels for the past 18 months. At first we were grateful for the room and the bed, but it's almost like a prison... The children are going mad, kept in a hotel room all day."

Travellers are being forced into homelessness at an alarming rate, due to overcrowding reaching critical levels.

The report highlights increasing numbers of young people and young families in the south-west region couch surfing, staying with family in already overcrowded conditions and doubling up on overloaded halting sites and in relatives' yards, as well as roadside camps, due to the failure of the local authorities to supply sufficient levels of Traveller accommodation.

The number of Traveller families sharing housing and doubling up has doubled since 2011.

In 2018, Travellers made up 9% of all homeless families in Dublin, yet Travellers make up less than 1% of the total population. Women accounted for 56% of homeless Travellers. These figures most likely reflect an underestimate due to fears of discrimination.

Such high percentages of homeless Travellers are shocking. If the total Irish population experienced the same proportion of homelessness as the Traveller population, there would be 125,000 people homeless in Ireland.

Members of the Traveller community and supporters at a vigil in Carrickmines after the tragic fire in 2015. Picture: Sam Boal/Rollingnews.ie

In 2018, the RTAWG found 22% of Traveller families in the South West were homeless. But when they include overcrowding, 85.6% of families surveyed were homeless. Almost a third of the homeless families had at least one member with a disability.

Despite these bleak statistics, this report shows that the reality is, in fact, much worse. Official homelessness statistics do not include the "hidden homeless" in overcrowded and highly unsuitable conditions.

The widespread discrimination by private landlords towards Travellers, refusing to rent to them, despite being in contravention of the Equal Status Act, contributes to homelessness. The report states it is "commonplace and considered necessary for Travellers to hide their identity, in order to rent from private landlords" and they risk eviction.

Nationally, the Housing Assistance Payment (a payment to help cover a tenant's rent in the private rental sector) is the main way homeless families exit from emergency accommodation.

But even with HAP, Travellers cannot find landlords to rent to them, which means they are stuck for long periods in emergency accommodation, and make up a higher proportion of homeless families.

As one of the most discriminated-against groups in Irish society with an 80% unemployment rate and a suicide rate that is six times the national average, Travellers are an ethnic minority group with specific accommodation needs.

Travellers have specific housing needs but struggle to find accommodation.

They are reliant upon local authorities to fulfil housing and accommodation needs under the Housing (Traveller Accommodation) Act 1998 which places the statutory duty for provision of Traveller-specific housing with local councils.

However, decades of inadequate policies on Traveller accommodation have been further weakened by a lack of political will to provide Traveller-specific accommodation. Between 2008 and 2018, €68m of funding for Traveller specific accommodation went unspent by local authorities.

The report recommends putting the right to housing in the Constitution to strengthen the legislative and policy framework.

The United Nations right to housing states housing must be "habitable, in terms of providing the inhabitants with adequate space and protecting them from cold, damp, heat, rain, wind or other threats to health" and culturally adequate, to "enable the expression of cultural identity and diversity of housing".

Mincéirs (Irish Travellers) are a traditionally nomadic ethnic minority indigenous to Ireland. But the Irish State sought to deny their identity and assimilate them.

The 1960 Commission on Itinerancy described "social problems inherent in their way of life", with former taoiseach, Charles Haughey, disgracefully stating, "there can be no final solution to the problems created by itinerants until they are absorbed into the general community".

Assimilation was an institutional response to ethnicity denial, Dr Sindy Joyce has explained. This leads, she has said to, "what is often referred to as failure in delivery of services and resources, is in fact, a successful policy of identity denial and anti-Traveller racism".

Travellers are still criminalised for their traditional nomadic way of life by Section 24 of the Housing Act 2002 which makes stopping on public and private lands a criminal offence.

A direct consequence of this is many halting sites are severely overcrowded and in breach of fire and safety regulations. The report reveals that local authorities are actually making families homeless by evicting Travellers.

At an EU level the ETHOS approach is viewed as the most accurate way to measure homelessness, which includes those living in inadequate housing (such as in caravans on illegal campsites, in unfit housing, in extreme overcrowding).

These are not defined as homeless in Ireland, which means the State does not respond appropriately.

Enforceability is needed to progress Traveller accommodation, in a system based on cultural needs including; group housing, high quality serviced halting sites, standard local authority housing and greater state support for the Traveller voluntary housing association, Cena.

Traveller groups recommend removing Traveller housing from the remit of local authorities to a dedicated Traveller Housing Agency.

The endemic, institutional, and everyday racism and discrimination towards Travellers must end. The Irish state has no more excuses. It must lead and deliver on Traveller accommodation.

It is horrific to have to say this, but will there be a repeat of the Carrickmines tragedy before we see sufficient and systemic action?

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Rory Hearne: Travellers bear the brunt of the homeless crisis

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"It's like an abandoned place that people forgot about, it's like we're forgotten, we feel like garbage." That's the direct experience of a 12-year-old girl, living in a halting site, explained to the Ombudsman for Children. In the early hours of October 2015, a fire broke out at a halting site in Carrickmines in South Dublin.

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Echo Article Calling for Traveller Homelessness Taskforce

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Echo Article Calling for Traveller Homelessness Taskforce

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Traveller organisations across Cork are calling for the establishment of a dedicated Task Force in Cork City and County Councils, to "uncover the true extent of homelessness experienced by Travellers".

The Cork and Kerry Regional Traveller Accommodation Working Group is a collaborative group of six Traveller-led community development organisations in Southwest Ireland: Cork Traveller Visibility Group, Cork Traveller Women's Network, East Cork Traveller Project, Kerry Travellers Health and Community Development Project, Travellers of North Cork, and West Cork Travellers.

Cork and Kerry RTAWG have jointly called for the establishment of Traveller Homelessness Task Forces in each of the three local authorities across the region, including Cork City and County Councils.

The calls comes ahead of the launch of the group's position paper 'Traveller Homelessness: A Hidden Crisis' on Monday 30 January.

Margarita O'Driscoll, a community health worker with Travellers in North Cork Group said that Travellers "deserve safe homes where families can be secure, children can grow up and fulfil their potential".

"But right now the scale of Traveller homelessness in Cork and Kerry is far greater than is captured in official statistics... if local authorities are not even acknowledging the true extent of homelessness in our community, the cycle of poverty will never be broken and our children will never know what it means to grow up feeling safe and affirmed," she said.

John Sullivan from Cork Traveller Visibility Group said that they want to see Task Forces set up to uncover the true extent of homelessness in each local authority area.

"The Task Force would ensure accurate data is collected and an action plan for each area designed and implemented, with the involvement of Traveller organisations," he said.

Katie Coffey of Kerry Traveller Health and Community Development Project added that the solution is in the hands of local authorities.

"For the sake of our communities wellbeing and health we need them to stop blocking homes for Travellers. We know from experience that where there is political and executive leadership, it translates into secure homes and our community being able to thrive," she said.

The report to be launched online on Monday 30th of January 2023 at 11am details the causes of Traveller homelessness and how it can be addressed.

You can reserve a spot at the launch event here.

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Call for Traveller Homelessness Task Forces in Cork

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Traveller organisations across Cork are calling for the establishment of a dedicated Task Force in Cork City and County Councils, to "uncover the true extent of homelessness experienced by Travellers".

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ADJUDICATION OFFICER DECISION Work Place Relations

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Adjudication Reference: ADJ-00018849

Parties:

Complaint:

Date of Adjudication Hearing: 31 July 2019 and 30 October 2019

Workplace Relations Commission Adjudication Officer: Patsy Doyle

Procedure:

In accordance with Section 25 of the Equal Status Act, 2000, following the referral of the complaint to me by the Director General, I inquired into the complaint and gave the parties an opportunity to be heard by me and to present to me any evidence relevant to the complaint.

Background:

Summary of Complainant's Case:

Summary of Respondent's Case:

Findings and Conclusions:

Section 25 of the Equal Status Acts, 2000 - 2015 requires that I decide in relation to the complaint in accordance with the relevant redress provisions under section 27 of that Act.

I have completed my investigation into the facts of the case and I note that the respondent has since allocated a property to the complainant in November 2019.

I have found that the complaint of discrimination on Traveller community grounds has succeeded and is well founded.

I have found the complaint on gender grounds has not met the prime facia test and is not well founded.

In accordance with my powers permitted under Section 27 of the Act, I make the following orders of redress.

I order the respondent to pay the complainant €8,000 in compensation for the effects of the prohibited conduct.

I order the respondent to engage in a review of CBL scheme to achieve Equality Proofing within 3 months of this decision and to implement any recommendations which may follow this review within 6 months of their pronouncement.

Dated: 2nd July 2020

Workplace Relations Commission Adjudication Officer: Patsy Doyle
Key Words:

Discrimination on gender and travelling community

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Adjudication Reference: ADJ-00018849 Date of Adjudication Hearing: 31 July 2019 and 30 October 2019 Workplace Relations Commission Adjudication Officer: Patsy Doyle In accordance with Section 25 of the Equal Status Act, 2000, following the referral of the complaint to me by the Director General, I inquired into the complaint and gave the parties an opportunity to be heard by me and to present to me any evidence relevant to the complaint.

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TVG Motions to Cork City Public Participation Network and Background supporting documentations

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TVG Motions to Cork City Public Participation Network and Background supporting documentations

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Traveller Housing Proposals to Cork City PPN

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The PPN calls on Cork City Council to establish a local Traveller Homeless Task Force, which will be action and outcome focused to overcome the ever-increasing, disproportionate and inter-generational degree of Traveller Homelessness

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The PPN calls on Cork City Council to establish a local Traveller Homeless Task Force, which will be action and outcome focused to overcome the ever-increasing, disproportionate and inter-generational degree of Traveller Homelessness

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The PPN calls on Cork City Council to undertake an in-depth, proactive Equality Impact Assessment of its Housing Allocation Policy for compliance with its statutory, positive Public Sector Equality & Human Rights Duty (PSEHRD), with a particular focus on Equality of Outcomes.

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The PPN calls on Cork City Council to undertake an in-depth, proactive Equality Impact Assessment of its Housing Allocation Policy for compliance with its statutory, positive Public Sector Equality & Human Rights Duty (PSEHRD), with a particular focus on Equality of Outcomes.

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Exact wording submitted to the Housing SPC by Representative Eoin McCuirc

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Equality Impact Assessment of its Housing Allocation Policy

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Traveller Homelessness: A Hidden Crisis - Cork & Kerry RTAWG Position Paper

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Traveller Homelessness: A Hidden Crisis - Cork & Kerry RTAWG Position Paper

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April 2023 | Reps Report: Roads and Transport Strategic Policy Committee 

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Roads & Transport SPC Stephan Koch April 2023

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Revisiting Donald Appleyard's Livable Streets

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You may have wondered, while watching a Streetfilm or reading a post on Streetsblog, where we got the term "livable streets."

The answer can be found in the work of Donald Appleyard, a scholar who studied the neighborhood environment and the ways planning and design can make life better for city residents. In 1981, Appleyard published "Livable Streets" based on his research into how people experience streets with different traffic volumes.  The Second Edition of Livable Streets will be published by Routledge Press in 2011.

Today we're revisiting Appleyard's work in the second installment of our series, "Fixing the Great Mistake." This video explores three studies in "Livable Streets" that measured, for the first time, the effect of traffic on our social interactions and how we perceive our own homes and neighborhoods.

"Fixing the Great Mistake" is a new Streetfilms series that examines what went wrong in the early part of the 20th Century, when our cities began catering to the automobile, and how those decisions continue to affect our lives today.

http://www.streetfilms.org/revisiting-donald-appleyards-livable-streets/

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“demonstrated that people living on a street with relatively heavy traffic had only one-third as many social connections as people living on a relatively light-traffic street”. This research has been repeated since.

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https://www.love30.ie/why-30kmh

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There is overwhelming evidence that lower speed limits make streets safer and more pleasant places for children and adults to live, socialise, work and play. When parents and children can walk and cycle in their neighbourhood, families benefit from healthier children, less stress and more money in their pockets.

It's not only a road safety issue, lower speed limits also:

Ensure that traffic moves more smoothly with minimal effects on journey times-

Reduce air and noise pollution

Reduce carbon emissions by increasing the number of people walking and cycling

Encourage young people to move about independently and encourage parents to permit their children to do so

Help combat rising levels of obesity by encouraging people of all ages to walk and cycle and by encouraging children to play outdoors

Transform our urban and village streets and residential estates from car dominated through-roads to vibrant living 'people-friendly' spaces

Bring us into line with the rest of Europe where 30km/h, (20 mph in the UK) is fast becoming the default urban speed limit.

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There is overwhelming evidence that lower speed limits make streets safer and more pleasant places for children and adults to live, socialise, work and play. When parents and children can walk and cycle in their neighbourhood, families benefit from healthier children, less stress and more money in their pockets.

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20 February | Reps Report: Strategic, Economic Development, Enterprise and Planning Strategic Policy Committee

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23.02 Reps Report SEDP John Hegarty February 2023