Cork council unveils plan to make city healthier, safer and more inclusive

Council wants to ensure views of 'seldom heard and under-represented communities' are catered for, including lone parents, Travellers, asylum seekers and people experiencing barriers based on disability, age, and carer status

Plan centred around themes such as making Cork a city 'valuing health and wellbeing', a city 'built on partnership, inclusion and equality', and a city of 'learning and culture'. Picture: Denis Scannell

Cork City Council is enlisting consultants to develop grand plans through to 2029 to create a healthier, safer and more inclusive city.

The council said its new Local Economic and Community Plan (LECP) for 2023 to 2029 is the “primary mechanism” at local level to transfer actions arising from EU, national, regional and local strategies and policies to a Cork City context.