Legal challenge hits imaginative town proposals

A LEGAL challenge to an army land sale hangs over a €300 million development which would transform a suburb into a large town.

The series of integrated planning applications being made from today for Ballincollig in Cork is one of the most ambitious building projects proposed anywhere in the country, and will change the face and character of the area over a seven to 10-year period.

However, the €40m land sale agreed by the Department of Defence to developers O’Flynn Construction hasn’t yet closed.