Re: Re: developments in cork

Bunch – Tivoli is a big site, about 55ha. And it fulfills an important function now – there aren’t many places in the state where a (relatively) deepwater container port is co-located with a heavy rail link*. Also, there is a lot of space to be filled in the docklands. If it does get fully developed, it’ll take 10-15 years to finish that area. After that point, of course, then Tivoli begins to make perfect sense – however thats a long way away, and the economy could be in a very different place then. Its definitely one to be borne in mind, but I wouldn’t go planning on that basis just yet.

*Now, if you were to suggest a heavy rail link to Ringaskiddy and beyond, I’m all for it. Then you could start running Arrow style services Midleton/Carrigaline, Carrigaline/Mallow. But that is more than a little fanciful.

what’s this I read in de Paper about the Carrigtwohill dev plan being varied to facilitate the amgen development. Anyone know why they couldn’t have used already zoned land?

They were offered a number of IDA ‘developed’ sites in the area, already zoned for industry; they didn’t want them. They were either too small or didn’t have the transport links they wanted. They will have their own overpass and theres been mention of a railway siding also. The initial announcement was for in the region of 1,200 jobs. There has been mention since that the site will be able to accomodate much more than that (as in well over 2,000) if thing go well.

Amgen is an interesting one, there has been rumours about it for nearly 5 years – it went quiet there for a while, and there were stories that it was going to take the Wyeth route (ie go to Dublin). Seems to have ended well though.