Record number of planning applications to be processed this year

CORK County Council is expected to process an unprecedented 12,000 planning applications this year, beating last year’s record by a massive 22%.

Details of major growth in the region’s housing sector were revealed yesterday when the council’s senior planner, Valerie O’Sullivan, said that predictions for house completions in 2005 had been shattered.

She said that under the County Development Plan it had been envisaged that 5,000 houses and apartments would be completed in Co Cork last year, but, in fact there were 8,800.