Fast track planning permission is being sought this week for a 17-storey apartment tower, on Cork city’s South Link Road, on a compact site previously a rail track goods yard and sidings.

PLANS for a €100m residential development in Cork’s Mahon, with 413 units across six blocks including one mooted tower of 25 storeys tall by the Jack Lynch Tunnel approach is being proposed for lands owned by McCarthy Properties.

EAGLE-EYED investors will swoop on a portfolio sale of nine apartments in Cork’s Jacobs Island — in a block called the Falcon.

THE media has voiced concern over the increase in road deaths this year compared to last year’s figures, and indeed your issue of July 7, reporting on a Cork road death, echoed these sentiments — and rightly so.

COULD you please tell me who was responsible in the local authority planning department for the traffic system debacle around Mahon Point in Cork?