Landmark €25m riverside student flats set to soar

STUDENT bed accommodation is reaching new heights close to UCC in Cork. A planning application is being finalised for a landmark €25 million 60-unit scheme of five, six and part nine storeys in height.

The riverside development, on a former sawmill site, will have bridge access to the main and westward-expanding UCC campus via bridges through to the new IT campus at the greyhound track site, and back across the river again to the Brookfield house new medical faculty.

The development, to accommodate 300 third level students in 60 purpose-built apartments, will have public riverside walks through it as part of a plan by Cork City Council to open up the city’s riverways as amenity walks.