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The long-mooted Northern Ring Road to unlock the economic potential of Cork city’s northside is more crucial than the proposed €850m M20 motorway between Cork and Limerick, a planning expert has said.

A quarter of Cork’s footprint has yet to be built and the next 20 years will bring the biggest change to city and county since independence.

A quarter of Cork’s footprint has yet to be built and the city centre will look dramatically different in 20 years to what it does now.

Groups representing business and industry have given their backing to a proposed motorway from Cork to Ringaskiddy — with one group expressing “frustration” at the lack of progress in building the road to date.

Town planning firm Coakley O’Neill argues that simplifying the planning process to build more homes is not the same as fast-tracking prjects. Pádraig Hoare talks to the firm’s Aiden O’Neill

The new Lord Mayor of Cork says he is confident that a “fair compensation package” for the county council can be worked out to secure a city boundary extension.

The annual awards of Cork Business Association — which is celebrating its 60th birthday in 2017— has heard rousing calls for Cork people to embrace what they have in their city if it is to thrive to its full potential.

Significant investment is needed in public transport and infrastructure in Dublin and Cork city centres if they are to keep up with increasing development and passenger numbers, according to the cities’ chambers of commerce.

Bord Pleanála has approved plans for a new 5,300-house town 6km north of Cork City.

Imagine the scene: You’re the government official tasked with attracting foreign direct investment into the Cork and Limerick region. You collect a team of executives from a global US tech firm at Cork or Shannon Airport. They are interested in locating their European head office in the Munster region.

Questions about housing density, traffic management, and potential environmental impact dominated the second day of an oral hearing on a new town plan for more than 5,000 houses, north of Cork City.

The resurrected plan to build a new town with 5,800 houses on the northern outskirts of Cork City will go to An Bord Pleanála again after a number of groups and individuals objected to it.

Planners believe they have turned the corner in getting a new town approved for Co Cork after amending housing density proposals and having discussions with the National Roads Authority (NRA) about a road link.

Cork County Councils’s grand plan to develop a new town near Blarney has been rejected by An Bord Pleanála.

A proposed new town north of Cork City could become gridlocked with traffic if the National Roads Authority maintains its refusal to provide a full junction connection to the planned Northern Ring Road.

A county councillor is campaigning to have a new greenfield emergency hospital developed on the northside of Cork.

A CALL has been made to erect flashing “over height” warnings signs on the approach to the railway bridge in Cork after it was hit by yet another truck yesterday.

A ROW has broken out between two election candidates about proposals to build a new hospital on the northside of Cork.

HOT on the heels of next door’s sale comes the right-hand-side semi of Woodside, Healy’s Bridge.

LEEMOUNT COTTAGE has been a landmark at Leemount Cross west of Cork city for years.

EFFORTS to secure the rezoning of one of Cork’s great rugby grounds for development have kicked off.

IT took years to sell, but when it did it sold well. Templehill Farm, on one of the highest points to the west of Cork city, has been bought by a local farmer for in excess of €3m.

THE preferred route for part of the most expensive highway ever planned for Cork will be unveiled this morning.

THOUSANDS of people will get the chance tonight and tomorrow night to see alterations to route proposals for the most expensive highway ever planned for Cork.

OPENING a park-and-ride facility in Mayfield would be a disaster, according to Cork county councillors who want their counterparts in the city to abandon the idea.

ALMOST exactly a year since it was last sold, a farmhouse in Inniscarra, Co Cork, is back on the market, but with less land than before.

DETACHED and with four bedrooms and a generous site, this house at number 27, Gleann na Rí could be lucky second time around for a buyer in Cork city.