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@orion wrote:
Joe O’Donovan has paid €7.5m for the former Ernst & Young building on Oliver Plk Street, what is this man using for Cash! It would be nice if someone could add up his current exposure to the Cork property market, for his sake lets hope the good times keep comin’ and comin’
Joe O’Donovan and his backers must have major plans for Cork City, and good luck to them (although the Roches M&S debacle leaves bad feelings for some)
I hope the sun keeps shining on them as spending millions on some sites that remain idle to this day must take deep pockets and a steady nerve!!:eek:@Praxiteles wrote:
I am posting these two images of the mosaic on the wall of the sanctuary which are probably by Ludwig Oppenheimer. Note the combination of a byzantine style with ats and crafts movement. Unfortunately, sections of the mosaci have blistered and are about to fall off of the wall due to water ingress. So far, nothing has been done to arrest the deterioration of this important work of art.
😮 There may have been an excuse for this type of utter neglect in the past.
Ireland is now supposed to be one of the richest countries in the world; we can give 1000 euro per child to workers from abroad, put up all and sundry in 4 star luxury despite breaking the European Union Dublin agreement (point of first entry to Europe), yet we allow our heritage to fall into the sewer on a daily basis like you mention….Hope it stay’s fine for us Irish??Fighting for GAMA, remember the PARC workers who went to build Iraq.
Who fought for our workers when we did not get the 750 Irish pounds that would have been the weekly wage for scratching one’s ass in that Country in the 1970’s, Mohammad Joe Higgins, where were you then??:rolleyes:😉 Cork City Manager is to confirm (or not) if a Marina is to be built near Lough Mahon Point in view of the fact that an agreement on this venture was planned as a condition of the sale of lands in Mahon in the 1990’s
Thomond Park wrote:So the skaters will be back to Emmett Place IMHOWhen private skate parks were in place in the city they had to close due to insurance problems.
CCC putting a few ramps in existing parks and then walking away and washing their hands of any reasonability to ensure proper running and supervision of same is just not good enough.Praxiteles, sorry but I don’t know if the Imperial War Graves Commission have been consulted.
😎 CCC committee members approved a report from the Director of Services to develop the Military Cemetery at Assumption Road, Blackpool into a local park.
Works will include provision of boundary walls and paths, trees and shrub planting, playground etc., and will be done with sensitivity to the fact that the site is a graveyard, with no interred remains being disturbed and relevant advise being sought to ensure that works would be carried out in a way that recognises and builds on the heritage of the old graveyard.🙂 Councillors are also to vote on a motion to remove the skate park from Tory Top Road which has destroyed the resident’s enjoyment of the original park and become slum like after only 3 months.
😡 The City manager now intends to repeat this mistake by turning part of Fitzgerald’s Park into a state park.
🙂 Frinailla have at last been granted permission on the former Keating Bakery site on Tramore Road.
This will clean up what was an eyesore for many years. (providing no appeal goes to ABP?)Local radio in Cork reports this morning that the Pennys retail store is to move into the former Roches store in Wilton.
Pennys would be acceptable to Joe O’Donovan and his backers as they do not sell foodstuffs and hence would not be in direct competition as would M&S.
Great news for the local traders of the Wilton Centre in the run up to Christmas.@Spinal Tap wrote:
Kents Station is dragging on for years and only goes to show how Cork always loses out to funding,from the new airport to the delayed school of music,decentralisation….roll on the next election.
Mockery of the highest order and only goes to keep up the image of how hard it is to get development in the “second”city for “high rise” i.e.anything over 3 -storeys.Mary Leland writing weekly in the Sunday Independent knocking anything that is happening in the city waffling from her comfy house on about new developments and everybody dhould have an uninterrupted view of St.Finnbars Cathedral.Dublin is to get a 17,500 seat conference / concert centre,Dundalk a 8,000 seat centre.Killarneys hotels are full as the NEC holds 4,500.Our business leaders are weak,our TD’s are moribund and as for our planners………….Those that propose a height cap in Cork are more to be pitied than helped.
As for Mary Leland’s ranting in the press…the landed gentry will always have their own hidden agenda to keep the great unwashed at bay.
Good to see that CCC has today granted Mark Kelleher permission in Bishopstown to increase density on his assembled site, a kick where it hurts for the NIMBY’s? 😎For all his faults Mr. Joe Gavin has been absolutely consistent in his drive to provide Cork with a conference centre and has identified the area surrounding Kent Station as his preferred location for same.
I wonder if the developers who expressed an interest in building the centre will be but off the idea by the piecemeal development of Kent?
CIE’s heel dragging on their site has caused nothing but trouble for the Manager and the city, I feel the past history on this site (O’Callaghan / Coveney) is making them slow to commit to redevelopment.@mhenness wrote:
I don’t think it’s a misprint. If you look at the list of things they are proposing to do, they are only a subset of the original plans where they said they would create a plaza at the back of kent station so travellers could walk straight towards the city centre over a new pedestrian bridge. I don’t see even an ambiguous suggestion that they are going to do this in the article. 🙁
😮 God help us one and all if this is true.
CCC have a lot to answer for in allowing this type of third world piecemeal development…an utter, utter embarrassment for Cork City and the overpaid muppets running planning in CorkAlmost two years after the first suggestion of a land swap in one of the south’s most affluent housing suburbs, Douglas Golf Club members in Cork are to meet developers Castlelands Construction in early 2007 to be shown ambitious plans for a “two-for-one swapâ€, with two, 18-hole Robert Trent Jones II-designed courses, all on 400 acres of land off the Carrigaline Road. By Tommy Barker in today’s IE
Full story here;
http://www.irishexaminer.com/irishexaminer/pages/story.aspx-qqqg=ireland-qqqm=ireland-qqqa=ireland-qqqid=15813-qqqx=1.asp@mhenness wrote:
From the following link it looks clear that Irish Rail are not going to carry out the original plans 🙁
http://www.irishrail.ie/news_centre/news.asp?action=view&news_id=198
A major redevelopment of Kent Station for 4 million!!
A house extention in some parts of the Country would cost more.:eek:
I assume that figure as printed in the Echo is a misprint?Pug wrote:You have to have sympathy for Lake Lawn, there should be no green areas extinguished. My general point is that I agree completely that the transport links need to be in place before the high rise in the suburbs takes place, but there should be no reason why there cant be high rise in town.The docklands should provide us with a well designed area for high rise apartments if Councillors and Management of CCC ever get off their backsides and make things happen.
Almost 10 years on and the docks area is still like a pigsty:o😡 Fears that anti apartment paranoia in Cork is spreading to areas outside Wilton is confirmed by tonight’s Evening Echo reporting that Cllr. Terry Shannon has joined the NIMBY brigade declaring that high rise developments are not suitable for his area.
Cllr. Shannon spoke against apartments in city hall recently supported (surprisingly) by Jim Corr, Denis O’Flynn, Catherine Clancy, Ciaran Lynch, and Sean Martin, these beauties joined the usual anti’s such as McCarthy- Buttimer, O’Brien, O’Leary, Barry et al.Proposed developments that are upsetting our poor councilors include;
Cormac Smith’s proposal for the demolition of Springville House, Blackrock and the construction of a residential development consisting of 29 No. apartments and 7 No. townhouses and parking for 40 No. vehicles with access off Bull’s Lane.
Lane Homes plans to demolish Lovett’s Restaurant and the associated stone boundary wall and construct 33 no. apartments consisting of 10 no. 1 bedoom apartments & 23 no.2 bedroom apartments over 2, 3, and 4 storeys.
Extinguishing part of the green area in Lake Lawn, Douglas to allow access for apartment development.
Redevelopment of the Ardmanning Bar, Togher Road.
Redevelopment of the Doughcloyne Hotel
How will urban sprawl ever be addressed with narrow minded fools such as these?:o
@kesey wrote:
So c’mon, out with the details. We promise we’ll keep it between us. And anyway, Cork could do with a good load of manure sailing gracefully by.
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@Cathal Dunne wrote:
First they lodge a plan for a 60 metre tower and then the DDDA say they’ll raise it to 100 metres. And now second they put in the planning application and they want 130 metres:eek: Nothing against them doing it really, I think there’ll be little if any extra impact with the 30 metres but it really sounds like this is turning into the ‘Incredible Expanding U2 Tower’
😮 Does anybody feel that a landmark building such as the U2 tower should be planned in conjunction with the City Council from the drawing board on, rather than adding a bit here, a bit there to gain height for heights sake?
I’m all for a statement building BUT the way this project is going seems to be some sort of penile or height substitute, sorry Bono!!:eek:The Sunday Independent reports on the Debt Crisis in UCC.
THE PUBLIC Accounts Committee (PAC) is to ask severe questions of the Department of Education over issues in respect of the construction of an IT building at University College Cork (UCC) when the committee meets next Thursday.
The news comes as the Sunday Independent has learned that UCC has begun construction on a €65m IT building without full and final approval from the department or the Higher Education Authority (HEA). As a result, the college, which is in substantial debt, risks losing its capital funding. This would force it to assume the significant construction costs.
Full Exclusive story here http://www.unison.ie/irish_independent/stories.php3?ca=9&si=1702332&issue_id=14742😮 I agree that the Opera house is an improvement on what was there before, so would a lump of dog pooh!!
Is there any other country in Europe that would allow the Opera House or the apartments on Camden Quay (as per your photo) to be built within a mile of the Crawford Gallery?
😮 CCC have refused permission to Frinailla for the redevelopment of the Dennehy’s Cross garage showroom and former post office.
There were 3 objections to the proposel, An Tasice, the Parish Priest and as usual the CSD.
A victory for NIMBYism?
