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Cork County Council (Irish: Comhairle Contae Chorcaí) is the local authority of County Cork, Ireland. As a county council, it is governed by the Local Government Act 2001, as amended. The council is responsible for housing and community, roads and transportation, urban planning and development, amenity and culture, and environment. The council ...
In September 2022 the ESB announced that they were to submit a planning application with Cork County Council before the end of 2022 for the construction of a new open cycle gas turbine. [needs update] The OCGT is to be within the existing grounds of Aghada power station and will be expected to generate 299 MW. [11]
The functions of local government in the Republic of Ireland are mostly exercised by thirty-one local authorities, termed County, City, or City and County Councils. [1] [2] [3] The principal decision-making body in each of the thirty-one local authorities is composed of the members of the council, elected by universal franchise in local elections every five years from multi-seat local ...
The CASP was a strategic plan for the Cork City region jointly developed by Cork City and County Council. This update to the CASP was reflected in the 2009 Cork County Development Plan, where the possibility of the identified rapid transit corridors being developed as light rail or bus rapid transit. [8]
Planning permission was granted by Cork City Council in July 2013 for a new entrance building onto Horgan's Quay and a new bi-directional road linking Railway Street/Alfred Street and Horgan's Quay. The plan also included bus shelters, a car park with 140 spaces and a set-down area accessed from Horgan's Quay for taxis and buses. [ 6 ]
Cork city and hinterland areas considered by the Review [7] Description Area (km 2) 2011 census City council local government area: 40: 119,230 Central Statistics Office census "city and suburbs" area: 165: 198,582 "Cork Metropolitan Area" in city council's submission to the Review: c.235,000 "Metropolitan Cork" for strategic regional planning ...
In the 1841 census, before the outbreak of the Great Famine, County Cork had a recorded population of 854,118. [46] By the 2022 census, Cork city and county had a combined population of 584,156 people. [47] As of the 2022 census, ethnically the population included 78.5% White Irish people, 9.9% other White background, 1.4% Asian and 1.1% Black.
Before 1 January 2002, the council was known as Cork Corporation. The council is responsible for housing and community, roads and transportation, urban planning and development, amenity and culture, environment and the management of some emergency services (including Cork City Fire Brigade). [3] The council has 31 elected members.