Save Cork City

This campaign aims to raise awareness of the value of the historic environment of Cork and to protect the interests of the development of the city in social and economic terms. We seek to find a balanced view to the benefit of new development and the repair of the historic City. In response to proposals for quayside flood defences the campaign believes that the 15 km of walls and flood defences with pump chambers and de-mountable barriers proposed would damage the city fundamentally and for many generations. We believe the scheme represents a wasteful, unnecessary and unsafe proposal that would negatively effect the potential of Cork. The scheme represents an outdated approach that would damage the very foundation of the City and would and supports an approach to the urban realm of the city that represents a degrading of the environment that would equally degrade the development potential of the city. Save Cork City wishes to protect the heritage of Cork City Centre for economic and environmental benefit.