The need to end the gridlock at city’s key road junction has intensified, writes Sean O’Riordan

THE National Roads Authority (NRA) has confirmed it is preparing a major plan to ease gridlock on Cork’s two busiest junctions and plans to present its proposals to An Bord Pleanála by summer 2012.

THE National Roads Authority (NRA) believes planning permission should be refused for 1,210 houses on the outskirts of Cork City because it would lead to even further traffic congestion at the Jack Lynch Tunnel/Dunkettle interchange.

PLANS have been drawn up to replace the Dunkettle roundabout with signalised dual carriageway and create a new slip road which will allow Dublin-bound traffic to avoid the congested junction at the Jack Lynch Tunnel interchange.

MAJOR construction projects in Cork are in jeopardy after a €200 million housing development was shot down in a shock planning decision yesterday.

I WISH to compliment Mary Leland on her excellent article (Irish Examiner Property, October 8) on the proposed development of 1,500 houses in the grounds of Dunkettle House and the adjoining lands of Ballinglanna, Glanmire, near Cork city.

SOMETHING a bit different, say the selling agents for Woodville - and they’ll soon have callers aplenty to vouch for it.

ONE of Ireland’s leading property developers has won a planning dispute - with his sister-in-law.