The Cork County Development Plan 2003 was formally made by the County Council on 13th January 2003 and came into operation on 10th February 2003. The County Development Plan 2003 is a six year plan and is expected to remain in force until early 2009.

Since its adoption, there have been four variations to the plan adopted by the Council, as set out in the table below. If you own the first edition of the Cork County Development Plan 2003 you can download these variations below.

Variation No.	Title	Date it came into affect
1.	Retail Strategy Variation (pdf)	8th March 2004
2.	Retail Warehousing Variation (pdf)	25th July 2005
3.	Local Area Plans and Special Local Area Plans Enabling Variation (pdf)	6th September 2005
4.	Complementary Variation to the Carrigtwohill SLAP Amendment 1: Ballyadam (pdf)	24th April 2006

These four variations are included in the second edition of the County Development Plan, the following are new variations which should be considered when looking at the 1st and 2nd editions of the Cork County Development Plan 2003.

Variation No.	Title	Date it came into affect
5.	Dunkettle	27th November 2006
6.	Retail Variation (pdf)	8th January 2007

LOCAL AREA PLANS

The ten Electoral Area Local Area Plans were adopted on the 6th September 2005.

A typing error was made in the text of the specific objective R-06 in the settlement of Whitechurch. This error has been corrected in the English version of the Blarney Electoral Area Local Area Plan below.

Amendment No.	Title	Date it came into affect
BLARNEY ELECTORAL AREA LOCAL AREA PLAN AMENDMENT NO. 1	Opportunity for a new Railway Station and Park and Ride Station Facility at Dunkettle.	27th November 2006
CARRIGALINE ELECTORAL AREA LOCAL AREA PLAN AMENDMENT NO. 2 (pdf)	Waste Water Treatment Plant at Ringaskiddy	22nd January 2007