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Manor Park homes have submitted a further planning application for CIE, Horgan’s Quay site.
-more information to follow-There’s no doubt that the ability of the city to organise outdoor artistic/sporting/cultural events has been lifted since 2005 when it had hands on experience and certain events are advertised very well and most events (advertising or not) are very well run.
I don’t think the city has fully learned from 2005 in terms of proper publicity, but I was a great believer then and still am now, that the population has a part to play by finding out what is going on and supporting it. Too many people moan about not knowing things are happening as if they expect the Lord Mayor to arrive at their front door and give them a lift into town for it.
Anybody who didn’t know the (very well organised) Cork City Marathon wasn’t going on needs more help than the City Council can give them!!Dr. Wrixon is quoted in the Examiner today as saying he had no idea that he was about to be appointed and that it was “news to him”!!
I hope this whole Docklands process is going to be as superbly handled as this appointment!! :rolleyes:Good luck to him. He stepped on many toes in UCC, but maybe thats what this position needs. And he has an eye for good architecture…the Glucksman was his baby.
Ulster Bank, Patrick Street have a pplied for a rear extension which, if the submitted plans are anything to go by, will develop on part of a site formerly occupied by the Hugenot Cemetary on Carey’s Lane. Can anybody confirm this? or clarify matters?
Attached are some images of the new Dunnes Stores development at Patrick Street, Drawbridge Street, Bowling Green St. and William Street.
Note: these are the original images and there have been some changes to this design. More active ground floor uses have been added to both of the side streets, although with only one tenant, i’m not sure how successful this can be. The right thing to do would have been to press Dunnes and OCP to have smaller independent units facing onto Bowling Green Street.
Also, the front facade onto Patrick Street has been significantly toned down, although with the loss of the left-hand facade (see final image).View from St. Patrick Street
View from Emment Place. Buildings to the right of foreground now demolished to allow for OCP development.
View from Crawford Gallery end of Bowling Green Street
Revised drawing of Facade
Images of the Cork School of Music which has its official opening today.
All images from http://www.murrayolaoire.com
Here’s an older image of Frinailla’s plans for their own site on Grand Parade. Not sure if this ever got planning. But it was prior to the Library site being joined up with it.
I passed through Grand Parade this morning. Scaffolding is going up on no. 50. This is the once beautiful Georgian building, the ground floor of which is currently being used as an entrance to a car park. Presumably the scaffolding is there for some sort of remedial work, as I don;t see anything happening on that site for a while yet. Its owned by Paul Kenny (Kenny Group), but rumour had it that it was up for sale a few years back. Anybody ahve more details?
Permission was granted (on appeal) for the Grand Parade site in 2000 for 35 apartments, a 22 bedroom hotel, restaurants, 141 car spaces, offices and retail. With the facade at number 50 being retained. Plans were withdrawn in 2003 to build residential student accomodation and a hotel on the site.
In my view, the fact that CCC facilitated the current misuse of the site by providing a roadway through the new footpath on Grand Parade is a disgrace.
No. 50 is the red brick building on the right of picture. The windows have not been boarded up for a number of years and the once beautiful interior has been open to the elements.Some plans for Frinailla’s City library project:
View from Grand Parade:
View from South Main Street
View from Tukey Street
@THE_Chris wrote:
So whats the deal with this traveler thing?
Not sure what/where, but apparently theres murder going on because some residents (Nimbys) fought a highrise development. Now the developer has paid travelers to go onto the site and make a goddamn mess.
Thats all I know, anyone know more or can link to something?
@jungle wrote:
I’m waiting for the first person to dig up some of the pavement and just slap down a little tarmac with the back of a shovel (French Church St, anyone?).
yeah, what’s the story here?? Why haven’t CCC prosecuted Subway or whoever is responsible? Do they even know its happened? I must get apicture of it. The fact that they’ve painted it red to match the paving is beautiful!
–EDIT–
I’ve just had a look at the conditions attached to the granting of permission for that development on Carey’s Lane. This one is interesting:The applicant shall be responsible
for the immediate temporary reinstatement
to make safe any
damage to lane / road / footway
adjoining the development during
the course of the works.
Permanent reinstatement shall
subsequently be carried out by
Cork City Council at the
applicants expense. The cost
shall be calculated in accordance
with the Roads Directorate
Reinstatement Charges
prevailing at the date of the
repair or alternatively the
work shall be carried out by the
applicant at the applicant’s expense
to approved detail and at the
discretion of Cork City Council.Work has started on the cemetery on Carey’s Lane.
Excellent photos as usual Malec. Keep up the good work.
That’s the Breastcheck clinic near the Victoria Hospital. Not sure why there is such a huge gap between the hospital and the clinic. Must be plans for the site.
This has indeed restarted. They painted it a cheap shade of yellow. The ‘roof’ has been painted a darker colour and extensive glazing has now bee added to the middle section of the front facade. Seems to be motoring along now, but don’t ask me what they are doing with it. A boutique hotel was mentioned way back. Its a real shame what happened here.Random building 1.
I believe this is some sort of Nursing training centre associated with the Mercy Hospital.Random building 2.
This is an extension of the UCC owned Lee Maltings site after the movement of Zoology to Distillery Fields. The extension will all form par tof the Tyndall Institute.
An Bord Pleanala have upheld an appeal by Cork County Cricket Club against the decision by Cork City Council to grant permission to University College Cork to construct a university outreach building and a pair of tennis courts at Mardyke Gardens, adjacent to the new Sli Cumann na mBan/ Banks of the Lee walkway and new pedestrian bridge.
UCC had submitted plans for the development after a previous (larger) design was also refused by ABP. The reason for refusal was the visual intrusion the building would cause on public open space and the effect on the surrounding recreation space.
The building was T-shaped with a exhibition/function/cafe space towards the walkway and a lecture/teaching facility to the west. The western portion of the building was timber cladded, while the exhibition was composed of a large glass facade.
Image above contains the East elevation (bottom; facing onto the walkway) and the South elevation (top; view from Mardyke Walk).@shanekeane wrote:
The problem with Cruises St. is hardly the paving stones! There’s nothing particularly good about red paving stones, but at the very least they tend to be something that doesn’t take from their environment. Oliver Plunkett St. looks absolutely awful. Why was it really necessary to retain that little tarmac road in the middle of it, so that the footpath on one side is reduced to a tacky little sliver? The street is narrow enough to be properly pedestrianized, that’s the point I’m making.
Well that is a good point. Although with access from 5pm to 11am, paving on the roadway could get seriously damaged and stained by delivery vehicles. It should really be permanently pedestriansised but this just isn’t viable.
And I guess the problem with the quays is a universal one (Dock Road, Limerick anyone?). Its just impoosible to get people to move on this sites!! Barring the few notable exceptionsCruise’s Street makes lavish use of red brick for paving and for the buildings themselves. The poster sugested that Oliver Plunkett Street would have been better paved in “red style paving”. I disagree. The fact that there are plans to demolish the ugliness that is Cruise’s Street must be a weight off the mind for all Limerickites 🙂
shanekeane wrote:I can’t believe the vision that some people have for the cities of Ireland. Some day, the entire country will be a patchwork intricately planned and badly executed redevelopment schemes. Why anybody thinks that Grand Parade and Patrick Street are anything other than abject failures is beyond me. The paving stones are absolutely revolting, and the idiotic pieces of street furniture make the place look like a whore who’s been all gussied up by a retard. Oliver Plunkett Street is similarly revolting]😀 What an hilarious post 😀
I’d disagree with you on all points though.
Red paving….mmmmm so 1990 and just like every city in Britain:)
Cruise’s Street in Limerick. So snazzy!!!Radioactiveman wrote:I’ve got to mention this one as an example of what some developers think they can get away with. An application is with CCC at the moment for permission to knock the former Language institute building on North Abbey Street and replace it with a new building.
Now, a lot of people probably don’t know where the street is, never mind the building! North abbey street is the small lane running west from O’Connors Funeral Home at the bottom of Shandon Street. And the building is at the end of this street, at the junction with the side street running off the North Mall.
It really is a fine victorian building. Its a pity it is in such a cramped position in there and can’t be seen as well as it should. I include the drawings of the present building (dont have an photo) and the proposed piece of rubbish. If CCC have any sense, they won]Gone to further information 🙁 shudder!!
Browser, I can’t say that I’m eager to see bars and restaurants overflowing onto the new Grand Parade too much. Soho’s intervention near the corner with Washington Street has reduced the space for pedestrain movement. What’s the point in having a footpath if it can’t be used? Something that bugs me greatly is the abuse of restaurant/bar owners of French Church Street and Paul Street. It is getting harder and harder to get through there, weaving your way through smokers.
On the positive side, Oliver Plunkett Street has boomed with pedestrianisation and the sooner Patrick Street, Grand parade are pedestrianised the better. The problem with the Grand Parade works at the moment is the seeming inablity of the contractors to ‘finish off’ bits and pieces. While most of the work is confined to the area around the national monument, there are bollards and sundry rubbish and construction equipment stretching from singers corner southward. It gives the impression that it’s much less finished than it actually is and the place is looking filthy at the moment.
I was on St. Patrick Street on Saturday. Good to see the place being overtaken by the people instead of cars and it being used for the Ceili mor. I have to say though, the amount of vacant retail units is alarming. I won;t list them again, its already been done here. But there seems to be something seriously wrong, even given the units we know are about to be redeveloped. When Cornmarket and Academy Street open, I cant see the situation improving, as more upmarket stores currently squeezed on Patrick Street will move to the shopping centres and leave yet more vacant or under utilised units on the main thoroughfare.Note:
Coopers bar and the Pav (?) nightclub on Carey’s lane has changed hands and is rumoured to become a live music venue. Coopers Bar has a blank wall on upper storeys facing on to Carey’s Lane across from the (soon to be restored) Hugenot cemetery. It would be nice to see the upper floors here being refurbished with views across the lane to the cemetery.@PTB wrote:
Does it cost anything to go up the bell tower of St. Annes?
Yes. Approx €5, I think. Its well worth it though!
