211 further apartments given planning at mega Cork scheme

Cork City Council granted conditional planning permission for revised plans covering blocks three and four of the Jacob’s Island LRD. The resubmission followed a prior decision by An Bord Pleanála and was submitted in March. Block three was reduced from 25 storeys to 12 storeys, lowering total units from 222 to 211. Block four is set at eight storeys with 65 apartments and ancillary facilities including a lobby, raised car and bicycle parking, and a bin store. The larger block three will contain 146 apartments plus refuse sorting rooms and a plant room. The plans include hard and soft landscaping, boundary treatments, and public realm works, aiming to add over 1,200 homes to existing housing on the site near Mahon Point.

"Resubmitted planning permission regarding the proposed development at blocks three and four at the Jacob's Island LRD, following a decision by An Bord Pleanála (now An Comisiún Pleanála), was submitted to city planners in March of this year. As part of the revised plans, block three was reduced from 25 storeys to 12 storeys, meaning a reduction of 11 units as part of reconfigured plans for the two blocks, from 222 to 211."

"New plans will see the fourth block stand at eight storeys high, and contain 65 apartments and ancillary facilities including a lobby area, raised car and bicycle parking, and a bin store. The third and larger block will contain 146 apartments, as well as two refuse sorting rooms and a plant room."

"Hard and soft landscaping, boundary treatments, and public realm works are included in the plans, which is due to see over 1,200 new homes added to the existing 600 housing units on the site, just across the N40 from Mahon Point Shopping Centre. It follows a pre-application consultation between developers Montip Ltd and city planners, which led to further clarifications sought just ahead of Christmas."

"As part of that, the council had requested the provision of a left-turn lane on the off-ramp adjoining the development, which connects westbound traffic to the suburbs of Mahon and Blackrock, as well as the shopping centre, which was Ireland's largest when constructed. However, city planners had incorrectly put the request at the feet of Montip, when it should have been with Hibernia Star Ltd, who are involved in their own development right next to the same site, which received its own planning permission in March, for over 550 apartments in blocks ranging as high as nine-storeys."

Read at Irish Independent