Transport ‘hub’ plan for derelict city docklands site

A DERELICT Cork city quay is to be transformed into a €500 million urban quarter and major transport hub within 10 years, it emerged last night.

Manor Park Homes intends to apply to Cork City Council early next week for permission to build up to 300 luxury apartments in blocks of varying heights, plus a boardwalk, on part of the 14-acre Horgan’s Quay site owned by CIÉ.

Iarnród Éireann also confirmed that in spring next year it will lodge a planning application to revamp Kent Station, reorientate it to face the River Lee and develop a major transport interchange at the heart of the north docklands site.