Cork developments

Student accommodation is typically 6 small ensuite bedrooms with one shared kitchen / living room and are easier to fit into the footprint of a building as they only need one entrance door, its alot of extra income compared to one or two bed apts and you can clearly see that with the amount of them going up around Cork!

There's always a cinema that never materialises... Great to see something happening here eventually but I'm betting the residential and hospital get watered down. Pity about R&H but it would take a charity case to try and do something with that.

Are Goulding's included in that 30-something acre land bank? Eyeballing a map the area north of centre Park road doesn't look that big alone.

The planners need to tie developments like this into the developer providing a significant percent of the housing/apts required to accommodate the staff for them otherwise OCD are just making profit at the expense of everyone trying to rent in Cork, developers keep crying about apts not being cost effective but I'm sure they would change their tune quick enough when their lucrative office blocks can't be built without housing.

I see that a new bridge and LUAS are included in the O'Callaghan proposal. It would be nice if that happened.

That's it though, OCP will say to the planners "oh all our workers will be whisked into the offices from Ballincollig on the new light rail system and that new Monard town will have loads of new housing so we don't need to provide anything locally because the government are definitely going to build all that because they have said they will, also here are some lovely 3D renders for your planning dept to wet themselves over" 🙄

You might have read between the lines and guessed I would like them to just build the f#cking apts and houses Cork City needs not more bloody offices!

Just a placeholder building image I think. The revised office development there is shorter, more squat.

Only there for the shiny rendered images. The light rail and bridge are dependent on public funding being made available to get them built. You're talking around 20 years for that to happen under CMATS.

Eventually the City Council will see sense and build a tidal barrier at the mouth of Lough Mahon.

Apparently there are minimum base levels for docklands developments-so the city centre will be long gone before any new dockland developments...

While on the one hand, high density is the way to go, not sure I'd be so keen if I lived in one of the houses nearby...

Except that there are other things in those areas that would make them good areas to live....walking distance to town, and working in e.g CUH, The Bons, Business Park on Model Farm Rd, ESB and others. People working in these places need places to live, and don't want a long commute.

I agree that high-rise is the way forward in many instances, but not to the exclusion of others.

And of course, many people have lived in those areas for much longer than 25 yrs.

Hardly high rise though .. it's 4 or 5 storeys, higher than the neighbours sure ,