Kinsale convent scheme reduced to 96 residences

Plans submitted before Christmas have been approved by Cork County Council for a reduced-scale development at a former Kinsale convent.

Cumnor Construction’s application was to amend the permission for the work at the St Joseph’s Convent of Mercy, at Winter’s Hill, where a 2004 application had been granted for 158 units. With approval to build the 20, three-storey detached houses, seven two-storey townhouses and 20 apartments, the company’s latest application said the number of residential units permitted on the site would be 96.

The council had requested further information from the applicants in February, and, based on the responses, it has now approved the proposal.