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To achieve balanced community and economic development throughout the region.
· Achieve balanced dispersal of community and enterprise activity throughout the region.
· Reduce development pressure on coastal locations.
· Target interventions and development supports to areas of disadvantage
· Identify economic growth potential in non-established/non-coastal locations.
· Utilise the West Cork Technology Park to stimulate dispersed development activity in remote locations.
· Identify the R586 regional route as a development corridor to stimulate non-coastal investment.
· Identify Dunmanway and its hinterland as primary growth centre in spatial development policy.
- Development of strategically located “honeypot” attractions in non-established tourist locations.
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Creation
of “Dunmanway Means Business” marketing and development initiative to
promote local economic and community development
- Create distributed workforce in remote rural areas for technology enterprises
- Utilise new technologies to offset demographic and geographic disadvantage
- Provide expert planning and environmental advice to assist renewal and enhancement projects in villages where development has lagged arising from demographic, locational or infrastructural disadvantages
- Assist the product development required to create a regional linear park through the integration of the regions geographically dispersed walking routes, cycleways, heritage drives, green roads etc. and market same on a collective basis
- Develop niche products in non-established tourist locations that draw on the unique aspects of local culture and heritage. (social, sporting, literary, economic)
- Integrate environmental and rural tourism in the development of niche tourism products.
- Utilise the cultural, environmental and heritage resources as a lever for local economic development in Dunmanway and its hinterland. (Development of Sam Maguire visitor centre)
- Re-appraise marketing and signposting needs in non-established tourist locations.
- Number of new formal community structures in pre-defined non-coastal DED’s
- Number of formal marketing and development initiatives undertaken by the “Dunmanway Means Business” project
- Number of development projects arising from same
- Number of new businesses established in pre-defined non-coastal DED’s
- Tourist revenues and visitor numbers in non-coastal locations
- Tourist numbers and visitor revenue earned through cycling and walking holidays
- New Fuchsia Brand participants established in non-coastal locations
- Number of community development initiatives, village renewal projects, community structures, etc. supported through formal facilitation and the provision of expert advice.
- Number of strategically located “honeypot” visitor attractions established
- Proportion of tourism/community initiatives relating key aspects of local culture, heritage and environment.
- Local authority expenditure provided to address infrastructural needs
- Percentage changes in key local demographics (population, density, income, employment, etc.)
