O’Flynn gets go-ahead for €240m plan

IRISH developer Michael O’Flynn’s Tiger Developments has secured full planning for a £200 million (€240m) mixed use scheme in Scottish capital Edinburgh’s Haymarket regeneration district.

The amended scheme is now primarily for offices, after earlier plans for a 17-storey hotel tower (the same height as his Elysian tower in Cork) was rejected by Scottish ministers, despite city planning approval. The site, effectively empty for 40 years, is close to a World Heritage site.

Mr O’Flynn last night welcomed as “very good news” the decision which allows Tiger proceed with 60,000sq m of offices, a 240-bed Travelodge hotel, and 5,400 sq ft of retail, with 381 car parking spaces.