Cork City Council has turned down plans to add 40 bedrooms to a student accommodation development already under construction at a city centre former brewery site.

The Government says that targeted increases in purpose-built student accommodation should be met or even exceeded by the end of next year.

A number of firms plan to take advantage of the rising demand for hotel beds in Cork, writes CBRE’s Denis O’Donoghue.

Plans for a €50m events centre in Cork City, which have been bedeviled by hitches in the tendering process, are back on track, with work expected to commence early next year.

THE proposed development at the Beamish & Crawford site would seem to be the wrong size, in the wrong place, to be used for the wrong reasons.