Cork developments

Curb Your Enthusiasm

Lovely new footpaths by The Marina already becoming a free for all with illegal parking. Including on the tactile paving. They'll be in bits in no time.

Only opened about two weeks. Pathetic really.

Curb Your Enthusiasm

Moxy coming along nicely

mrpdap

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122208814#Comment_122208814

imagine if parking regulations were enforced

same lark in the Marina carpark, people parking just around the corner rather than going down a bit further to a parking spot. They are actually parking on the road.

the beer revolu

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122210199#Comment_122210199

I like how the old frontage is integrated. The building is stepped back to allow it room to exist. Unlike the awful example of the integrated old building across the river in the half moon street development where the old building is completely overwhelmed buy the new one imposed on top of it.

Then, further along the quay is another good example by vibes and scribes.

chalkitdown1

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122208814#Comment_122208814

Was down there yesterday. I like the new access road into PUC, but it will 100% be abused by people too lazy to park further down in the actual car park on the other side. There's one massive parking spot, presumably for bus parking, that will almost guaranteed, be full of cars and never have a bus in it.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122210238#Comment_122210238

Least they could do is put double-yellow lines there just around the corner. Not that it would stop them from dumping the cars there.

sonnyblack

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122210368#Comment_122210368

I agree with the stepping back of the facade. Very well thought out. The grey top section looks a bit dull in my humble opinion. It's a pity there wasn't a bit more glazing, large sections of glass rather than individual windows/doors

Curb Your Enthusiasm

Should have probably known it was a waste of time asking for seating here but I think it's such wasted potential... one of the nicest areas in town.

Apogee

An interesting one - planning approved for conversion of offices on South Mall into 17 apartments

https://www.echolive.ie/corknews/arid-41418757.html

igCorcaigh

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122271090#Comment_122271090

I agree. Surely they could come up with a reasonable solution. But, no...

what the hell!

The council seem to be doing something with the area across from their depot in Blackpool. Where they park up all the vans. The wall was being knocked this morning when I was passing.

opus

27 apartments are the plan for this site I believe. It's on Old Market Place, just off Blarney street.

Curb Your Enthusiasm

Parklet on South Mall has returned to being parking for the Imperial

Captainsatnav

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122331872#Comment_122331872

Ah stop. Really?!

the beer revolu

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122331872#Comment_122331872

While I'm not in favour of more space given over to parking, those parklets were gone very shabby looking. They were a nice idea at the time but they'd require constant maintenance which we're not very good at in this city, it seems.

what the hell!

The tidy towns have started maintaining the one in Blackpool and it looks well. But where it is is pointless. I don’t know why you’d want to sit there.

whisky_galore

Parklets look cheap, slapped together things and turn into weathered, peeling litter bins if not looked after, which they seldom are.

Would rather proper public seating than things made out of pallets and splinters.

Captainsatnav

Yea, valid points I suppose.

ofcork

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122337812#Comment_122337812

They are doing a great job in Blackpool but still rubbish dumped on Thomas Davis street Saturday night after they having cleaned up.

Markcheese

The siting of those parklets left a lot to be desired , there was one in balincolig - next to a piece of paving wide enough that it'd be a square , glanmire was hiding near supervalue , theres actual small parks either side of south mall , the douglas one got very shabby ,

As usual the intention was great - but they need care -

snotboogie

I think I posted about it when they were first unveiled. They were a cheap photo op for councillors, very little thought into their design or location and little to no maintenance. There must have been a thousand tweets from councillors, local journos and politicians when they were first unveiled, universally praising how fab-lass they were. At the same time the central government has been trying to throw 3 billion of transport investment into the city but city council has missed every deadline.

DylanQuestion

Has anyone ever actually used them?

PreCocious

The one outside the Imperial was very popular for people having their coffee or stronger beverage.

Curb Your Enthusiasm

Maintenance as usual isn't a thing with Cork City Council. Saw one in Belfast today and they looked great.

No reason why we can't have nice things, with a city council that gives a damn..someday maybe.

Curb Your Enthusiasm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122340382#Comment_122340382

It was very well used.

Contacted a cllr and was told that the new owners of the Imperial said they wouldn't manage the upkeep. So it was taken away. To where, who knows.

Doesn't surprise me in the slightest that City Council don't want to maintain them - even if it's metres away from City Hall.

opus

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122340111#Comment_122340111

I've sat on the one outside the Quay CoOp a few times when the weather was nice for a lunchtime snack & once on the one on Popes Quay for a phone call when I was walking past it.

Curb Your Enthusiasm

Seating on Grand Parade today

The 400,000 euro CityTrees have worn Impeccably poorly, and the birds dirt looks to have been well established there for weeks or months. Meanwhile multiple council vans parked across the plaza by the library.

Curb Your Enthusiasm

The broken seating at corner of South Mall and Grand Parade has even made it to Google

Streetview!

hans aus dtschl

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122342816#Comment_122342816

Broken by grown adults crowding on them for a vantage point on St Patricks day. Saw it happen. Needs to be replaced obviously.

TheChizler

Do CCC actually employ people for this type of general maintenance? General handyman skills? It seems everything no matter how small it is has to go through a procurement or tender process where an external company does the work, inflating costs and slowing everything down. You get farces like where south gate bridge was powerhosed on the graffiti sections only and not an inch more until a new contract was negotiated.

Norrie Rugger Head

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122347075#Comment_122347075

That's government outsourcing policy. Hire nobody, rely on "The Market"