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@Radioactiveman wrote:

There has been a serious breach of planning regulations at a development on College Road.
“Cliffords” shop (well known to generations of students) as well as no.’s 1 and 2 Westbourne, College Road have (over the weekend, surprise, surprise) been reduced to rubble to make way for a new development on the site. Planning permission for such demolition has not been granted.
PP was recently conditionally granted (04/28769) for the demolition of a portion of the existing shop and the dwellings and to construct 4 no. terraced townhouses along Highfield Avenue. With regard to the properties 1 and 2 Westbourne it was intended to convert these into 4 no. apartments.
Permission had previously been refused by CCC and ABP for the development of 8 no. student apartments on 4 floors at 1-3 Westbourne, College Road.
The applications were made by a Ms. Ann Clifford.

The Planning Department at CCC can be contacted as follows, if you feel this merits a complaint:
Telephone: + 353 21 4924321 / 4924324 / 4924325 / 4924720 / 4924722 / 4924723

Fax: + 353 21 4924706

e-mail: planning@corkcity.ie

😮 Happens all the time in Cork, remember Mr. Tracy and the listed Church in sullivans quay that “disappered” over a weekend without as much as a slap on the wrist from CCC. People that carry on in this fashion should be in jail.
Planning in Cork is a joke from the City Manager down.

😮 Following on the vote taken last year to ban residential units over 3 stories, proposed by FF’s Cllr. David McCarthy (passed by two thirds of councilors but never implemented by city manager, Mr. Joe Gavin) another proposal in the same vein is to be voted on tonight, a motion by Cllr. Mary Shields FF is to call for a blanket ban on units over 3 stories in Cork.
“Fianna Fail the developers friend”…not in Cork city it would seem?

@Thomond Park wrote:

I think he addressed it in the Joshua Tree Albulm with the song where the streets have no name if you can call rows of one to the acre McMansions streets

Always ahead of his time our Bono

😉 Also preaching about high-rise in Running to stand still, “I see 7 towers and only see one way out”…
And in How to dismantle an atomic bombs all because of you..”some people got high-rises on their backs”
……Sorry for the rant, im just a fan of U2

@jdivision wrote:

Frinailla’s Victoria Cross scheme has been approved subject to conditions. Haven’t had a chance to look at them yet. Code is 216418 of anybody wants to check pleanala.ie

The IE had a story on this on Monday, ABP overturned their own inspector yet again to grant planning, anyone else feel that the frequency of appeals being overturned is alarming?
http://archives.tcm.ie/irishexaminer/2006/07/11/story7985.asp

@A-ha wrote:

A €1…. did somebody bid for it on eBay or something. I would have gone to €1.25, but that would have been my limit. That’s such a shame though. I really wanted to get to see that project through. Whats planned for the area now then?

😎 Nothing, the site is to stay as is, which is a HUGE improvement on what was there before.
Selling the site to Mr. K. was a great idea, the way it was carried through by the city manager and sold for 1euro is a scandal for the city and a huge (unnecessary) embarrassment for the buyer.

@Radioactiveman wrote:

Thanks for taking the initiative AHA. Clearly the individual threads were not working! Nobody is going to open up an individual thread for the often small, seemingly insignificant bits of news that pops up on the ‘Developments in Cork’ threads- despite the fact that it all adds to creating one of the livliest threads on the site.

CCC have voted to dispose of that site on Popes Quay for the princely sum of one euro. In fairness, this talk of getting thousands for the site was a bit of a red herring given, to my knowledge, CCC had never owned the site up until the short time when they transferred the site to its new owner.
What I think is more relevant to this thread is the erection of a new wall/fence around the site. Does this destroy the view of the Civic Thrust building? Does it even having planning? Any info?

:rolleyes: The wall and railing was erected without planning, rentention was applied for with a senior planner recommending refusal, this was overturned by the “senior” planner and granted.
Retired city architect, Neil Hegarty appealed the grant of premission and Mr. Keohane withdrew from ABP.
The city manager proposed selling the site to Mr. Keohane for 1 euro which was passed by councillors last night by 21 votes to 5.

@Angry Rebel wrote:

Does that mean that the City Council will provide the service or that they think it’s a good idea and that someone else should provide it?

I don’t see the need for it to be honest. The No 2 bus goes along the same route, and will do so faster. A ferry/taxi is restricted to 6 knots from Blackrock Castle up to the city centre. (Unless the operator can do some very fancy footwork with the Port of Cork). [6 knots = 7 mph!]

I think it’s all up in the air at the moment on who would provide the service Angry Rebel.
On the No 2 bus, the recent vote on the Blackrock Area Plan saw councillors from the area force city management to remove the “Green bus route” along the marina. Is this the No 2 route?, if so maybe the river would be a faster route rather then being stuck in traffic on a bus?

@A-ha wrote:

Having noticed that people are not taking an active interest since the opening of individual threads to replace our last Cork thread, I thought I would start a new one dealing with all aspects of Cork City, Metropolitan Area and County. I hope that this new thread will be used for Cork developments that don’t fit into the Transport or Docklands threads as I would like to see both of them being used also.

🙂 Well done A-ha, those other cork threads were in danger of falling off the radar they got so few people showing interest.

@Deadonarrival wrote:

Flew into the cattle shed that is Dublin Airpport this morning from Porto – the contrast in experience couldn’t be more different (and we’re the ones enjoying a 10 year boom?)

Porto – a simple 30 minute metro ride costing 1.40 to a sleek, contemporary terminal (see how pretty it looks https://archiseek.com/content/showthread.php?t=4539)

Dublin – portacabin sheds stretching for what seems like miles into the mayhem of baggage reclaim as several planeloads of people crowded 4 deep waiting for their luggage…then onto a stinky bus (5euros!) which had to be diverted because of traffic caused by the wexford/kilkenny match

if we have any national pride – or pity for harrased travellers – the current terminal should be razed and replaced immediatly

😮 Could not agree more…traveling regularly between both Dublin and Cork “INTERNATIONAL” airports to Nice, France (not the main or second airport in France by any means) would make you wonder what dub and ork would be like if we were not the richest, fastest growing economy in Europe??
See Nice and cringe….
http://www.nice.aeroport.fr/include/default.asp?l=2

@lexington wrote:

Not quite the point I was making – I’ll remove that remark, lest in be misinterpreted. Its not a political point.

😉 I understand, ’nuff said.