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🙂 In addition to plans for a new 150-bedroom hotel at Cork Airport, Great Southern Hotels have lodged their application for a 53-bedroom extension onto their existing 83-bedroom hotel at the fast growing airport.
🙂 O’Flynn Construction have sought permission to proceed with the construction of 2 planning permitted hotels as part of their 500m euro Ballincollig Town Centre project.– the first hotel is 100-bedroom 4 storey over basement development, while the 2nd is a 5-storey 138-bedroom over basement development (Marriott have been a named mentioned to operate the hotel – however, reports are now sceptical over this in light of ‘recent developments’). Both hotels incl. all appropriate ancillary services and facilities.
– Also, I hope to have that exclusive Eglinton Street Development picture by Thurs, as I will be away tomorrow.
:p Pitwood Ltd’s proposed 121-bedroom, 5-storey, 80,000sq ft hotel development over dual-basement is looking pretty nice. I was taking a brief look over the plans recently and forgot to mention it – the facades of 91 South Mall and the 2 protected facades at Parnell Place are to be refurbished and incorporated into the development, giving it an air of class about it. Above the Parnell Place facades, a tasteful, black slate pitched roof will form the 5-storey. My only grievance relates to how the height of the project, as viewed from South Mall, may mildly affect the grandesque of 93 South Mall (Thomas Crosbie Holdings HQ) – but the developers assure me the materials used will minimise this effect dramatically. It looks good though. Michael & Kevin Corbett will retain ownership of the site however.
:rolleyes: Cumnor Construction finally provided Further Info to CCC regarding their 7-storey apartment development at Sunday’s Well/Winter’s Hill – a decision due date is set for the 28th of Jan 2005 (this month). Jack Coughlan & Assoc are behind the design. I remain sceptical about this project – in my opinion, it’s a bad place to put a 7-storey block – considering its position overlooking a number of private residencies surrounding (the tallest of which being 3-storeys with pitched roof). This is a highly prominent, sloped location and the development far from suits it.@PaulC wrote:
Lexington – Is that an actually proposal, or something you would like to see happen. I havent heard anything about it????
It is a genuine proposal – an announcement is currently being prepared with an application to follow soon after. 3 developers have proposed such a complex for Cork, Owen O’Callaghan among them – but his development most likely will not be the one that makes the final cut. I am aware that a more solid proposal is to be made by a development company in the coming months.
I suppose just from a Cork perspective:
1. The announcement of a 6000 seat capacity concert venue/convention centre arena being formally intro’d
2. One of the country’s largest capacity office developments being announced for the docklands
3. The greenlight of Water Street and Eglinton Street high-rises
4. Concrete movement on Horgan’s Quay
5. Work to begin on large Cornmarket Street project
6. Cork School of Music finally getting a move on – a long shot???
7. Frinailla finally getting a go ahead to redevelop the Watercourse Road
8. Completion of Cork County Hall refurbishment in Nov.
9. Opening of new Cork Airport Terminal in Nov also.
10. 500m euro Mahon Point SC opens Feb 1st.
11. 500m euro Ballincollig Town Centre Phase 1 opening for Oct 2005
12. Another high-rise application lodged
13. Announcement made on 500m euro North Ring Motorway and Tunnel
14. More movement on a number of docklands developments – possibly announcement being made on R&H Hall
15. Construction, long over due, of Kinsale (Magic) Roundabout Flyover – as well as flyovers for Sarsfield Road Roundabout and Bandon Road Roundabout.Plus many more yet to be announced!
I tend to disagree with you on that Bob. I’m the first to criticise the mundane-ness of much of Cork’s structures – there are too many, too prominent. Thankfully, things are slowly starting to change – but if you do look close, there are a few interesting endeavours – usually, unfortunately, too small to notice.
This thread isn’t neccessarily out to reveal the ‘prettiest’ – just interesting designs.
The Mercy University Hospital’s Lee View Block extension (nearby Tony Macken’s apartment building in prev. post) was designed by O’Riordan Staehli Architects and constructed by PJ Hegarty & Sons back in 1998 – it received an RIAI Award and represents the 1st Phase of 3 in the Mercy’s redevelopment.Plans are in tow (budget pending) for the construction of a 5-storey private hospital and extended radiology department w/ permanent MRI Unit between Sheare’s Street and Thomas Street. A new 6-storey multi-storey car park, offices, urology department and Cork Cancer Research Clinic is planned for the newly purchased Irish Distillers site across the River Lee (bought for 20m euros jointly with UCC). A 4m euro new A&E was scheduled for construction under the Lee View Block last October 2004, but fiscal conditions have restricted this ploughing ahead.
The Lee View Block houses a geriatric ward at Ground Floor, Psychiatric Ward on the 1st Floor, Male & Female Medical Wards on 2nd, Male & Female Surgical Wards at 3 and both Clincal Pharmacology and Lab units on the 4th floor. Originally, the building was envisioned as a perfect square – with four sides – but this vision was diminish due to financial and planning restrictions. A 2-storey ‘sky-bridge’ links the new block with the older Catherine McCauley block of the hospital across Henry Street. This bridge affords genuinely spectacular views down along the Lee, with the Distillery Fields to the North – overlooked by a magnificient palace like cathedral literally built on a steep 80 degree slope – Fitzgerald Municpal Park on the river banks to the South, and Cork County Hall visible at 16-storeys in the distance.
Attempts had been made a few years ago by the Mercy’s Board of Management to purchase Henry Street from CCC and construct an extension over the street (building down to street level from the link bridge and then back) facilitating increased services, bedspaces and an underground car-park – however this plan as of yet, never got off the ground.
*if you look at the last image closely, though it is small, you may notice Tony Macken’s apartment building in the background along Henry Street – to give a sense of proximity. Also, notice the river area in the foreground, it was this area in which Sean Meehan had intended to construct a 3 level multi-storey car-park and commercial units with quay-link vehicular bridge – all over the water on STILTS!!! The application was subsequently withdrawn.
😮 Yes, more student accomodation for UCC and CIT, this time – I have to agree the location is pretty sweet as it is slap-bang in the middle between both the main UCC and CIT campuses.
The former petrol station, repair shop and existing licensed bar at Dennehy’s Cross on the junction of the Model Farm Road and Wilton Road looks scheduled to be redeveloped as student accomodation (in the form of apartments). It is presumed the buildings will range from 3 to 5 storeys and accomodate up to 200 to 250 bedspaces. The apartments are expected to be designed and built to a very high standard – perhaps due to future market considerations??? After all, it won’t have the same restrictions. No firm application date has yet been set – and I’m afraid I can’t leech any further information about the development for now. But this, it would seem, is what is in the works for this highly prominent and sought after site.
No – I think what you read was Noel O’Flynn giving out that Cork was being treated 2nd best yet again by CIE as Heuston and Connolly Stations up in Dublin were getting the full treatment. It fairness, Connolly and Heuston have higher volumes of traffic movement so its no surprise that they have had and needed to receive revamps – but CIE have treated Cork appallingly over Kent Station and Horgan’s Quay redevelopment. Treasury Holdings and Manor Park Homes have apparently threatened to withdraw their proposals as a result – I’m not quite so sure that’s accurate as Treasury and Manor Park were only a number of developer names in the barrel. Joe Gavin, Billy Kelleher, John Minihan and Noel O’Flynn have pledged to push for a firm application regarding Horgan’s Quay for 2005 from CIE – but at the end of the day, they can only do so much. A number of plans have been drawn up regarding Horgan’s Quay ever since Owen O’Callaghan proposed to construct an IT and Business Park on the site many years ago – which was famously boycotted by the then Minister Michael Lowry and Bernard Allen (it was a Fine Gael vs Fianna Fail cock-up that cost Cork up to 600 jobs). You may remember I post one Horgan’s Quay masterplan image a few pages back – but developers involved have also funded a number of other design proposals, most of which include high-rise buildings of varying scale and design quality to accomodate the expected 5000 or so residential units ear-marked for the site. These buildings are generally slender in their east-west profile as to minimise visual disruption from northern valley slope residencies. 2 plans in particular have particular appeal to me – they both facilitate an extensive commercial/retail/leisure and social ‘town centre’-style area along the quay with a central public plaza; above this 3 attractive high-rise residential buildings stand (east, centre, west – 20, 25, 20 storeys resepectively) with interconnecting lower level residential and commercial levels. An extensive reworking of the quayside is proposed to maximise the waterfront area which is to include a boardwalk (with docking accommodation) from Railway Street to Water Street. Pedestrian access is provided by a number of safe crossings and one over-road pedestrian walkway/bridge which extends from the base of the central high-rise. Kent Station in both these plans, as with almost all of the other masterplans for the quay, is altered to face the waterfront with access roads linking into a new arrivals and departure hall – this then faces onto the quay to the south and central public plaza to the east. A new 900-space multistorey car-park is provided to the rear of the existing terminal, fronting the Lower Glanmire Road. Many of the masterplans overlap in certain areas but I’m sceptical over whether such plans (even half of such plans) will make the final cut if CIE does finally commit to its long long overdue promises. My fear now is a substandard ‘Cork Bus Station scenario’ where a novelty, second-rate proposal is implemented consequent of mounting public and political pressures. In fairness to Joe Gavin, he has said, we want movement – but we will not sacrifice the immense potential of the quay to a second-rate proposal. 2005 may be the year – we wait anxiously.
A few people have asked about that ‘large red-brick circle thing’ along the Blackpool By-pass -> well that’s the Sean Mhuileann Section 23 development by Frank Sheahan and Joe Carey I had been talking about in previous posts. I still believe that guide prices are ridiculous – but if people are that mad enough and willing to pay that sort of money for that sort of development, then soak it up I say. From a consumer perspective, all I can say is, there are far better developments than this for better money. From a developer’s perspective all I can say is ‘HAHA!’ – or something to that effect.
For a 600sq ft 1-bedroom apartment, prices start at 325,000 euros. 375,000 euros for a 800sq ft 2 bedroom and 425,000 euros for a 3-bedroom 1,200sq ft apartment.
The image below is in reverse, the larger, semi-circular element (already complete by PJ Hegarty Contractors) is located to the North. The 3 remaining blocks are currently under construction by Ascon. Design for the 139-unit apartment development is by J.E. Keating & Associates.
Also, here’s a small image of the new UCC School of Medicine and Nursing Studies – due to open for October 2005. The 45m euro project was designed by RKD McCarthy Lynch and built by PJ Walls Building Contractors.
…and on the subject of UCC, here’s a sneak peek at the design for new student accomodation of the site of the former M&P O’Sullivan Cash & Carry at Victoria Cross (next to Victoria Mills – Phase 2 now under contruction by Bowen Construction). Fleming Group will act as developers and building contractors on behalf of UCC. In line with student population projects and accomodation requirements – construction is not scheduled to begin until mid to late 2005, ready for the new Academic Year in Sept 2006 (the project is not S.50 and thus free of associative conditions). Design is by Bertie Pope & Associates (whose previous projects incl. North Main Street/Kyrls Quay Multi-Storey Car Park and Shopping Centre – I’ll let that work speak for itself). The image is small I know, but as of now, it was the only one allowed for use (made available in this case through PMG).
😮 CCC announced formally today (31st December 2004) along w/ Enterprise Ireland and Howard Holdings, the long-awaited ‘Webworks’ development for Albert House (along Albert Quay – now known as Terence McSwiney Quay). The development is designed by Scott Tallon Walker, will be developed by Howard Holdings and constructed by PJ Hegarty Contractors.
Quite frankly, I’m a little bit disappointed with the design – it could have been far more radical and utilised the quayside far more effectively and…actually, it could have used the quayside full stop! The circa. 55,000sq ft, 4 storey (5-storey apex) over 62 car-parking space basement development is to be built to the rear of Albert House (on site of former Railway Station platform area) and connects with Albert House – which will see its ground floor area converted to restaurant use, and upper floors for office use. Access will be provide to the Webworks from Eglinton Street and a new road planned as part of the Eglinton Street development by O’Flynn Construction between Eglinton Street and Albert Road.
The development will be open to submission until Feb 16th 2005 – will then go for council vote (which will almost certainly pass) and is planned to have a crane over the site for April 2005.
😀 After receiving a copy of the EIS for O’Flynn Construction’s Eglinton Street project (as part of their project resubmission – see previous post) – I have to say, if I liked the project before, I REALLY like the project now. Inspecting the various visual aspects of the project in better detail than basic design images I was afforded earlier on in the year, I have to say, the project says ‘WATCH OUT DOCKLANDS!!!’ with a bang. It provides a magnificient entry point into an area undergoing rapid current and future development. The VIS doesn’t incl. outlines for the Albert Quay projects and City Hall development – but when pictured in your head, you can imagine how fabulous the development will be. It utilises copper, sandstone and glass heavily, but blends just well. Yes it is tall, yes it is dramatic – but is a REAL city’s project and I think it’s high time Cork flaired a little pride and confidence in its morale and aesthetics. It’s a leap, but it’s a mature one and it’s something I hope is embraced.All going well, I’ll have an exclusive (for want of a better word) Lapps Quay & South Mall perspective image of the development – which includes City Hall – for next Tues or Wednesday.
🙁 And sorry to butt in this downer – but Charles & Helen McCarthy’s hotel development planned at Crosses Green on the site of their former Mill Business Centre, for want of better phrasing, is shockingly awful. It’s another Derek Tynan-makes-me-want-to-cry (the bad kind!) architectural catastrophe. Why is Mr. Tynan spreading an architectural disease over our city??? The design is quite literally a 7-storey brick (Victoria Mills: The Sequel) in an area surrounded by 2 and 3-storey small houses, cottages and the Dean’s Hall complex. Sure I like the boardwalk element and I like the fact that it’s a development in an area that could use it – with beautiful water frontage – but NOT THIS development. The 7-storeys could be quite passable and in fact, complimentary had any effort, thought and/ore imagination gone into the design. A truly hideous project. I would wholly support this project, even at that height, if it had any form of half-decent design to it.
🙂 I couldn’t end the final day of 2004 with that depressing note – so here are some things to keep an eye on for 2005 ->1. A planned project (next to the Albert House Webworks) for Albert Quay
2. A vertical extension at the Deloitte & Touche offices on Lapps Quay (a glass frame enclosing the existing PS and floor provision above)
3. A resubmission of the Water Street project
4. Another major office development in the docklands confines.
5. Movement on Horgan’s Quay (so the CCC claim)
6. Plus a number of other exciting large scale developments YET to be announced – but I will soon, I promise!HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! 😀
Having resubmitted their application (through Further Info incl. EIS) – O’Flynn Construction are now scheduled to receive a decision on their highly anticipated Eglinton Street development. The project will incl. mixed use res. office & retail devt generally comprising of 6-8 storeys above street level apart from the landmark bldg in the sw corner of the site which is 17 storeys above street level excl. rooftop plant encl,feature spire & aviation light.553 carpark spaces provided mainly at basement & also at grd level within the bldg.Devt will be carried out at former An Post site 1.24ha/3.06acres.Retail floorspace will be provided in 5 separate units of 3.624m2total.U’s1,3&4-convenience retail/sandwich bars/restaurants assoc. with local need,U2–h/hold goods & U5-furniture &/or bulky consumer durables.7 office units total 1989m2.Assoc. facilities comprise a creche &a gym.217 res. apts will comprise 6x1bed,164x2bed,27x3bed.Security station, 2ESB substns, anc. services, stores&yard with assoc. landscaping, site works & services.Vehic. access for the devt will be via 2 new vehic. entr/exit pts onto Eglinton St apart from the service yard for del. vehicles which will be located on Albert St.
The decision due date is set for the 25th Feburary 2005.
(now off I go to return to my Christmas holidays – which are less holidays and seem to be more intensive work days!)
Indeed – belated as this is, Merry Christmas to everyone – contributors and observers alike! I hope it is a warm, progressive and peaceful one – and with it, a prosperous New Year! I look forward to a prosperous 2005 for all of you and for Cork – let’s top 2004 and come out better than ever!!! 🙂
theblimp – interesting cover story on the small paper today (23rd December). 😉@anto wrote:
often thought a bit more tree planting on the quays in Cork might be in order. Not great big Plane trees but something more suitable. Might be useful to hide stuff like Merchants Quay. Speaking of the Quays, the Gate Cinema was quite good but the apartments just above them are pretty dissapointing
I very much agree – the quays should be tree-lined more in Cork, it’s a small but powerful addition to any city-scape. Merchants Quay most especially could do with it. However, I do know strategic plans for the MQ/St Patrick’s Quay area are in line for major redevelopment (St. Patrick’s Quay has for some time been due redevelopment for the St. Patrick’s Quay frontage of the Everyman Palace – plans are in the drawing room) and riverside walkways. A new pedestrian bridge is planned between MQ and St. Patrick’s Quay as part of the City Development Plan 2004. A boardwalk will extend along both quays – one of the plan aims includes ‘complimentary tree-linining additions’.
– As for the apartments over the Gate Multiplex, ‘box central’ – how utterly distasteful. I’ve always maintained my opinion of their unsightly nature – and its far from favourable.
sw101 – I assume that’s the 80,000sq ft Kennedy Quay site you’re referring to??? If so, offers in excessive of 4m euro were being heard on initial offering. My understanding is that this has been dramatically readjusted upward. I expect a final sale prices in or excess of 6m euros – but I could be wrong, I can’t really predict how bidders will go. :confused:Hello – sorry for not getting back sooner – but I was in Dublin the past 2 days at one or two meetings – and a spot of the ever stressful, last minute Christmas shopping. Big mistake! 😉
mickeydocs – the OPW plan to move the Revenue Commissioners to a city docklands site – they are looking for a long-term lease/sale for 80,000sq ft of office space and additional parking for up to 600 employees. Any deal, will in part include, the exchange of the 3/4 acre Sullivans Quay Government Buildings which also house FAS, Coillte and Dept of Marine offices – these departments will also be up for negotiation for an additional 20,000sq ft to 30,000sq ft. The existing Sullivans Quay buildings are structurally inadequate, at renovating the 100,000sq ft building would be exceptionally expensive. The site is valued at between 10m to 14m euros.
🙂 O’Flynn Construction have resubmitted their planning application for Eglinton Street to include an EIS – as requested. No changes have been made to the development.– in related O’Flynn Construction news, the company has sought planning to construct a new retail restaurant at it’s Eastgate Retail Park, next to KFC, for MBCC (Ireland) Ltd, – which will trade under the ‘Pizza Hut’ brand (who are also opening an outlet at Mahon Point in Feb 2005).
😮 O’Callaghan Properties have been teasing the Evening Echo w/ an insight to their planned 6-storey Academy Street retail and residential block. In article, Owen O’Callaghan apparently speaks of the 150m Academy Street development as fulfilling the commitment he made to CCC when he purchased the Mahon Point lands to reinvest back into the city centre. :rolleyes: (MacDonald Properties of Scotland had a rival bid of IR£50m on the site for which they planned a 500,000sq ft retail development versus the joint O’Callaghan Properties/McCarthy Developments bid of IR£42m) …anyway, O’Callaghan goes on to say how the design will be of a superior nature and host approx. 200,000sq ft of retail space, between 30 and 40 units of strictly international and national fashion brands (apparently, “allowing Cork rival the any of the best fashion retail districts of Europe”) with 80 apartments overhead. The article mentions the design stages are at an early stage with a collabrative host of European design firms (however, a preliminary “visionary” design has already been drawn up and seen by some), and a finalised design is expected mid to late 2005. Uhmmm. 😉The rumour going around was that Paul Montgomery was looking to buy it – it would certainly make sense given that a sizeable proportion of the student development in Victoria Cross (“Student Central”) is his. Also, it would seem like a throw-back to his Western Star days. Furthermore, it would give Paul Montgomery a direct input into the student pub market which his Reardens Complex does not facilitate (other that the Rafertz nightclub element) and which he hasn’t really had since he made his ‘fortune phase 1’ at “the Star”. It makes sense – offer a rival to the Western Star right in the centre of all the new student activity, then ship them all down to Rafterz after-hours.
😮 Yes indeed – Werdna Ltd (McMahon Builders Providers) will be lodging a revised application for their Water Street project early next year. Sean Kearns of Murray O’Laoire (MOLA) has indicated a reduction in height of the main central tower by 2-storeys however to 17-storeys – he said that height was not so much a matter, but in light of the reductions (due to excessive density issues associated with the previous Water Street application) with the rest of the project, it was a matter of proportion. The new project is expected to maintain the same general layout and style as the original, but w/ apartment numbers reduced to in and around 300 from 400.
😀 Ellesmere Properties Ltd (Howard Holdings) have lodged an application (as previously indicated here) with CCC for a 7-storey, 125-bedroom hotel, office and retail development over basement car-park at 16 Lavitts Quay (former designated Irish Examiner HQ). The design is by Reddy O’Riordan Staehli Architects. Planning pending, construction on the project is due Summer 2005. PJ Hegarty will be main contractors.
🙂 Charles and Helen McCarthy, owners of the Mill Business Centre, Crosses Green (across the river from the rear of Beamish & Crawford Brewery), have applied for the development of their business centre as a 3-storey to 7-storey, 64-bedroom hotel and business development centre w/ ancillary facilities and riverside boardwalk. Derek Tynan & Associates will provide the design. CCC must be delighted! 😉
🙂 John Sisk & Sons Building Contractors have lodged an application with Cork County Council for the development of a 6-storey, 96-bedroom hotel, spa and leisure centre at a site south of their offices on the Kinsale Road (near the infamous roundabout). It’s one of another in a really long line of recent hotel development applications for Cork city in the last few days.
🙂 Work on Jacob’s Mill (Father Matthew Quay – rear of Bank of Ireland on South Mall) will finally get going next week before Christmas now that developers Tumblegate Ltd have allocated O’Flynn of Banteer Builders as new contractors replacing Joseph Lane & Son Ltd (they are also working on Tom McCarthy’s other project at the Kingsley Hotel – which has also lodged for a number of alterations to its hotel extension and aparthotel development under construction).
😀 Michael O’Donoghue of Rockfell Investments has announced that work will commence on the highly anticpated department store and apartment development at the former Guy & Co. premises on Cornmarket Street come Janurary to early Feburary (as previously reported here).
– a number of other major developments due for Cork city are expected to be made known after Christmas! Cork is on the up and up!!! 🙂:rolleyes: As mentioned in one of my previous posts, well in advance, O’Flynn Construction have confirmed that Dunnes Stores are indeed to anchor the Ballincollig Town Centre SC. They will provide tenant for one of the 3 main anchor stores of 60,000sq ft.
Also, as I mentioned, it was again confirmed today that Marks & Spencers AND Superquinn had been in talks with the development company about tenancy.
Yep….sigh. 🙁
That’s my opinion also to an extent.
It’s M50 part II. However, Cork County Council are fiercely protective of their green-belt area through which part of this huge motorway will be constructed.
Currently Cork has approx. 7 dedicated green-routes (buses, emergency vehicles and taxis only) – but these only serve suburbs of Mahon, Bishopstown and Ballyvolane. Much more needs to be done.
Currently, the suburban rail network only serves Glounthane and Cobh – the Midelton line is under development. Plans are only under feasibilty stage for Ballincollig and Bishopstown suburbs. Perhaps PPP could help? But judging by the Cork School of Music…that’s suspect.
The loop is needed, but the route???
🙂 O’Callaghan Properties have been granted their redevelopment proposal for the Jurys Hotel site at Lancaster Quay. However, the development was granted by CCC subject to 20 conditions – among these a further reduction in apartment block heights (in addition to reductions proposed in a Significant Further Information submission made [unsolicited] by O’Callaghn Properties and architects, Henry J. Lyons & Partners).
Although the dominant factors of the development will remain, i.e. Block A (9-storeys), Jurys Hotel (6-Storeys) and the main apartment blocks fronting the east quayside – the conditional reductions will see apartment numbers reduced to 250 (from an original number of 300 and revised number of 277). A positive adjustment I believe, proposed by CCC, was that which will see a minor facade improvement to the hotel frontage on the Western Road elevation.
Unfortunately, despite the many compromises made by the developers and the conditions imposed by CCC – a number of objectors will still be bringing the development to ABP on appeal. I find this very frustrating.
I do not approve of all the CCC conditions, but I should hope the project is unaffected negatively by the appeal. Initially, the project was set to be developed in 3 Phases:
– Phase 1: 80 apartments, basement car-parking and hotel (Autumn 2006)
– Phase 2: 110 apartments (Autumn 2007)
– Phase 3: 110 apartments (Autumn 2008)-> the appeal will perhaps delay this.
🙂 John Mannix has received the green-light by ABP for his 40 – 42 Washington Street duplex, retail and office development. The revised 6-storey design was praised by CCC who remarked that it would be a contemporary departure from existing architecture in the area – but would provide a unique gateway to South Main Street and Grand Parade. The building, designed by Dermot Coveney of Coveney & Assoc., will comprise of a basement car-park, ground and 1st floor retail, 2nd floor offices, 3rd and 4th floor duplex apartments and 5th floor penthouses.
🙂 JD Hotels Ltd have received a planning grant to proceed with their 4-storey restaurant and bar development at 77/78 Grand Parade and Tobin Lane. Design is by Wilson Architecture.
🙂 X-CES Projects Ltd have lodged their application with Cork County Council for their 200m euro Kinsale development (as earlier reported) on 199 hectares between Kinsale Harbour and Oysterhaven. The massive development will take 3-years to complete and comprise of a 3-storey, 218-bedroom 5-star Hyatt Hotel; leisure centre incl. 20m swimming pool; 18-hole golf course; international indoor equestrian centre; 210 resort lodges; 38-duplex apartments and 57 2-bedroom apartments; 500 seat event centre. Project design is by Henry J. Lyons & Partners.
🙂 Pitwood Ltd. have applied for the development of an 8098sq m development at Beasely Street and Parnell Place (yes, the Corbett site!) which will comprise of 121-bedrooms over 5-storeys, health club and spa, basement car-park, restaurant and bar. The development will incorporate the protected facades at 17 & 18 Parnell Place.
:rolleyes: And yet ANOTHER, in what seems to be an endless list of hotel developments in Cork city of late, Heiton Holdings Group PLC have sought permission for the development of their Bandon Road Roundabout warehousing facility (along the South Ring Road N25 and new Ballincollig By-Pass) as a 4-storey, 96-bedroom, 8,248sq m hotel with function centre, conference centre, leisure centre w/ swimming pool, gym and a 218-space multi-storey car-park.
:confused: Another hotel development anyone? Sure why not! B.F.T.A. Ltd are applying for the construction of a 101-bedroom hotel and parking at Church Road, Carrigaline.
– as if that all wasn’t enough, there’s more on the way!!! Watch this space!
:rolleyes: Bowen Construction have commenced work on the 31-apartment (130 further bed-spaces), 4/5 storey extension to Victoria Mills student development at Victoria Cross on the site of the former Statoil Petrol Station – designed by Derek Tynan and Assoc.
😮 BrideView Developments are seeking permission to develop 30 high-density apartments on a 1-acre site site near Cogan’s Garage in Carrigaline, they recently purchased for a whopping 2m euro. Locals, of course, are up in arms.Cork has seen a number of hotel developments of late – incl. Howard Holdings 120-bedroom Lavitts Quay hotel, the Hilton at Mahon Point, Douglas Central Properties 8-storey hotel development in Douglas, Pitwood’s 121-bedroom development at Parnell Place, Heiton’s 96-bedroom (see above), Jurys redeveloped 182-bedroom (see above), 120-bedroom Park Manor (Radisson) at Little Island, the new 200-bedroom Clarion on Lapps Quay – opening tomorrow, the 217-bedroom Hyatt in Kinsale, 150-bedroom Marriott (hinted as) for Cork Airport – as well as expanded Hayfield Manor, Kingsley (82-bedroom extension) and Great Southern Cork Airport Hotel. Whoever complains of a shortage in hotels now needs their head-checked! 😀
Apologises for the late post – I’d been trying to access Archiseek.com since 7am w/ news of Jurys but couldn’t access site.I wouldn’t pay too much attention to that – there’s more to that than you may think. I was talking with a certain Ballincollig dentist today who denies a sale with Brown Thomas (as I said it was most probable at the time – but I never confirmed it because I was unsure – the rumour was started by staff who had been let go from Scotts) – but does mention a management and ‘investor’ restructuring with relation to the bar. Paul and Edmund may still be behind it chiefly but their share in the bar has been reduced via sale – this has probably raised some of the capital toward their new refurbishment plan. There are also more details in the text but I’m told they will be made known at some stage in the future – I’ll let you know when I can, or when/if it is made public. (Just remember, the Irish Examiner don’t exactly have a great track record on these things either – I refer you to the Mahon Point/Evening Echo incident of many posts ago).
*UPDATES*🙂 XCES Developments Ltd are scheduled to lodge an application with Cork County Council by the end of the week for a 200m euro Kinsale Golf Resort development over a 620-acre site. Hyatt will operate a 200-bedroom hotel, which will compliment an 18-hole golf course, 500 seat event hall and associated works. The development will take 3 years to complete subject to planning.
🙂 Kilquane Ltd (Howard Holdings) have lodged an application with CCC for the placement of a 12m sculpture on Lapps Quay as part of their City Quarter development. The sculpture will be placed outside the Clarion Hotel – (see previous related posts).
🙂 The Southern Health Board (SHB) have lodged an amendment to their planned, 6-storey, 75m euro cardiac /renal facility planned for CUH – the amendments predominantly concern cladding issues.
😮 Jurys Redevelopment decision due tomorrow – fingers crossed!🙂 In a development summed at around 53m euros – the existing St. Patrick’s (Marymount) Hospice at Military Hill/Wellington Road – is to make a move to a brand-new facility on a greenfield site along the Bandon road.
No concise date has yet been set – but a design for the new hospice is expected to be made known in the near future.
More details as they come.
Pug – the development currently under construction at Copley Street is by M&K Corbett (Corbett Bros.) – it’s a 5-storey, 60,000sq ft office development designed by PRC Architects – this will adjoin 38 apartments over 5 floors also. 90 undergound car parking spaces are to be provided as part of the development, with ground floor gym, restaurant and retail units. The amendments applied for there recently relate to an elevational treatment which will cater for an additional 8-student apartments as part of the residential element and expanded commercial element on the basement and ground-floors.
As for the Brooks Haughton site at Copley Street – this premises has been subject to much speculation and interest over the years. Word has it that the company in its new form will seek to maximise its potential through valuable land sales and relocate to a site of greater general access in the suburban regions.
*UPDATES*:confused: The long delayed development at George’s Mill (the derelict mill building fronting Fr. Matthew Quay, to the rear of the Bank of Ireland on South Mall) by Tumblegate Ltd – has taken another odd turn. For months Joseph Lane & Son Ltd Contractors had seen their site offices stacked up on the quayside beside the site – a period of structural security was undertaken – but now it would seem that O’Flynn Contractors of Banteer (also main contractors for the Kingsley Hotel expansion), are taking over building activities on the project. I’ll let you know more soon.
😮 And this week will see a decision made regarding 2 of the most high-profile developments in Cork this year (w/ another high-profile and LONG-awaited development decision – for John Mannix – due next week). On the 16th December (this Thurs), Riga Ltd (O’Callaghan Properties) will hear their planning decision on the controversial Jurys redevelopment – designed by Henry J. Lyons & Assoc. Fingers crossed on this one!Also, on the Fri (the 17th), JD Hotels Ltd will hear their decision on the redevelopment of Singers Corner and Tobin Lane/Street as a 4-storey New York-style restaurant and late-night bar – designed by Wilson Architecture.
:confused: I received word over the weekend that indeed Scotts of Caroline Street has been sold for an udisclosed sum, to an ‘undisclosed’ buyer – most probably, I am informed, Brown Thomas nearby.
