nimbus 2008
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@lawyer wrote:
I assume it is the Gouldings site and the Irish Shell site that the HSA are concerned about
Have any of the local papers picked this up? It looks potentially terminal.
@lawyer wrote:
I assume it is the Gouldings site and the Irish Shell site that the HSA are concerned about
Thanks lawyer.
@kite wrote:
The Health and Safety Authority submission states:
“On the basis of the information the Cork City council has supplied to the HSA, and the information obtained from Alleyquay Investments Ltd. the HSA ADVISES AGAINST the grant of planning in the context of major accident hazardâ€
(capital letters as above used in HSA submission)
Thanks.
Do we know which of Cork’s Seveso operations would lead the HSA to give that advice for this location?
@Steady wrote:
Does the HSA submission on the HH application mean it will not be possible for the planners to grant permission?
What did they say?
Much lobbying for taxbreaks here which they say are critical to the scheme going ahead.
Can’t see why our tax money should be given to these guys. If the project cannot make it in the market on its merits why should we be giving HH/Alleyquay handouts?
They say they want greater security than they have at the Four Courts.
What security implications flow from dressing this building in glass?
MPH appealed on March 22nd. They think the Council was totally unfair to them and also did not understand its own Development Plan and LAP. :rolleyes: Revision looms. Open for observations to the Board for two more weeks.
So Lidl complains about politicians being ‘politically motivated’. And the politicians take umbrage? Must go and lie down…
As usual Archiseek was first with the news of the latest major development application in Cork – the Manor Park Horgan’s Quay application. 276 apartments scrunched into the eastern edge of the site next to Water Street. The mainstream media are still maintaining an unusually coy silence, with the exception being a brief peep from the Echo. The natives are getting a bit restless though and there are no fewer than 30 objections in Navigation House. Lot of those are multi-signature efforts. Owners CIE are keeping the head down.
What have the locals got to complain about? Well only the fact that the application runs a horse and cart through the the North Docks LAP. Oh and that it would raze Benson’s Good Depot, which is humorously designated as a ‘protected structure’. OK there is also the 24/20 floor Fawlty Towers looming over the riverbank. And the permanent enclosure of the land intended for the relief route that was supposed to ease congestion on Lr Glanmire Rd. And one or two other technicalities. Like the bats and the rare plants. And the complete absence of any bit of a sop to the existing community. Like anything green. Or a playground even. OK so they will lose a bit of light. And maybe they will have to walk a bit if they want to see the river again. And the nights will never be quite the same. But apart from that sure its not too bad. Really. 😉
For the record there were three pre-plannings.
