UCC - Curraheen Sports Development

AugustusMinimus

Anyone know what the position is with this development. The land in question was purchased back in January 2012 but I haven't heard a thing since. Anyone have any plans or potential renders for this development ?

Michael..

That's a substantial piece of land. It'll be interesting to see what they have planned for it.

Here's me thinking the universities are broke.

Obviously not

Pitcairn

In July UCC were looking for contractors to oversee the project and said they were hoping to appoint them in November.
Assuming that has been approved I guess we will see a planning application sometime this year.

AugustusMinimus

Excellent news.

I think the overall plan is to do an enormous development on the current site of the Farm and have this replace the farm ?

A running blog has it that the Farm and associated lands owned by UCC will be developed into a Science Centre of Excellence. That is some size of a development.

Pitcairn

AugustusMinimus wrote: »

Excellent news.

I think the overall plan is to do an enormous development on the current site of the Farm and have this replace the farm ?

A running blog has it that the Farm and associated lands owned by UCC will be developed into a Science Centre of Excellence. That is some size of a development.

Yea, that will be big. The County Council are planning a new road from the Greyhound track across country to Inchigaggin on the Model Farm Road. It will have a road link into the back of the CIT and all around it will be the science and technology park.

AugustusMinimus

Pitcairn wrote: »

Yea, that will be big. The County Council are planning a new road from the Greyhound track across country to Inchigaggin on the Model Farm Road. It will have a road link into the back of the CIT and all around it will be the science and technology park.

You read my mind. Just posted this in the roads forum:

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056802085

AugustusMinimus

I see elsewhere on this forum that a new road will be built from the roundabout on the Ballincollig link road to somewhere in the new Science Park Development behind CIT A needed piece of infrastructure I think.

Another interesting thing I've seen is Munster Agricultural Society's plans for their Curaheen site. Anyone know anything about this ?. Is this going ahead.

Pablo Escobar

AugustusMinimus wrote: »

I see elsewhere on this forum that a new road will be built from the roundabout on the Ballincollig link road to somewhere in the new Science Park Development behind CIT A needed piece of infrastructure I think.

Another interesting thing I've seen is Munster Agricultural Society's plans for their Curaheen site. Anyone know anything about this ?. Is this going ahead.

It's a bad sign when they can't even get the road name correct.

AugustusMinimus

In the Echo this evening that the Science Park Development has got the go ahead and will be starting soon. This must mean the closing of The Farm too.

KCAccidental

So, this looks like it will be full steam ahead after many false starts. Very interesting that a new hospital is being mooted, will certainly take the strain from CUH on the Western side of the city.

A NEW acute hospital has been earmarked for Curraheen in planning documents formulated by Cork County Council.

The hospital could form part of the long-awaited Cork Science and Innovation Park, according to Cork County Council divisional manager Declan Daly.

http://www.eveningecho.ie/cork-news/new-cork-hospital-planned-curraheen/2575964/

PLANNING permission has been granted to demolish the former Cork City soccer grounds at Curraheen to build a multi-million euro five-storey office building.

Cork County Council confirmed that permission has been granted for the project, which will form part of the Cork Science and Innovation Park.

http://www.eveningecho.ie/cork-news/office-scheme-former-cork-city-soccer-ground/2575956/

I do think a transport corridor from Ballincollig to CIT should be the back bone of this development, perhaps a BRT route with the opportunity to convert that to Light Rail in the future as part of a Ballincollig-CIT-UCC-Docklands-Mahon Point mass transit route.

AugustusMinimus

Hopefully they'll extend the Ballincollig link road as part of this scheme all the way to CIT. BET would also be excellent give how much space they have to play with.