Cork developments

No rumours yet?

It seems like a perfect site for such a development like this and one that could easily handle the apartments. In order to get that density it might need to go 4 or 5 floors so I'd expect it to be cut down a little but good to see ambitions.

As you say though, it's great having ambitions but they need to actually happen!

I assume it is this

Student apartments development starting on North Main Street.

I walked down that direction for a closer look this afternoon and with Holy Trinity Church, The School of Comm and this new hotel all along this stretch, both Fr. Matthew and Morrison's Quays should be fully pedestrianised.

As far as I could see they both Quays are mostly accessed for parking.

Not much change planned in pedestrianisation terms, and still plenty of parking.

Took a walk past the Quay this afternoon, looks like they've started the work at the back & the interior going by the pics above.

Not a whole lot in the NDP for Cork. Same old projects reheated like Cork commuter rail - this must the the 3rd time in a year that the €185m European money for a new platform in Kent, resignalling and dual track to Midleton has been announced. Most disappointing is that there is no acceleration of the timelines in CMATS - no mention of Cork light rail other than it will continue to be funded through to design. There's a vague mention that BusConnects is expected to be largely completed by 2030!

There's nothing new in this NDP so it's disappointing that none of the major projects like CMATS are being accelerated. Climate crisis? What climate crisis.

Back on the NDP, has anyone seen any plans of what the proposed new town at Monard is meant to be like?

Surely it'll just be another Celtic tiger era massive housing estate with no facilities unless their is some kind of public private partnership to develop a cohesive masterplan?

I don't understand how these NDP announcements are regarded as news. They go in the same pile as hospital trolleys and waiting lists and housing crises - permanent news. Like the "clowns in Congress did it again" robot in The Simpsons.

ABP gave a large part of it the go ahead years ago. Not sure it's right to point the finger at the city council as the problem. It's more the government as a whole has done nothing to help progress it. No funding or progress on developing the train station or the NRR to enable it.

Demolition underway on Nth Main St

That's not the site across from the Marquee entrance is it? Those warehouses were demolished over the summer.

Found a planning application from 2000 which confirms they're former Cork Warehousing Company. Not sure what's left to consult around demolition beyond what they're going to do with the rubble... I wonder will we ever see much happen here.

Edit: Had a walk past today and there are more walls standing than I thought. I could be wrong about when the demolition happened.