Re: Re: Developments in Cork

@Pug wrote:

sounds like a tough one – werent they essentially voting on rezoning it for a school? where now do they put the school though?

It was a tough decision for councillors to make.
The necessary realignment of the Brian Dillon H&F pitches to allow room for the proposed school puts the pitches under high voltage power lines.
Another site in the grounds of the Mayfield Community School may now be used and would provide a win situation for all involved as the community school was built to accommodate 800-900 students. Falling numbers over the years has that school with only 300+ students at the moment.
City management and planners are to blame for dragging this folly out for so long. This planning application, lodged by the Department of Education for development on amenity grounds should not have been validated.
This is not the first time this type of rezoning pressure was pushed on councillors, Lidl submitted a planning application for industrial land in Churchfield which led to a “Nice Treaty” type rezoning vote i.e. when councillors rejected the rezoning, the manager put the same motion before council members again for a second vote.