Planning board overturns council decision on private hospital

AN BÓRD PLEANÁLA overturned a county council decision yesterday and refused planning permission for a €110 million private medical clinic in Cork’s green belt.

Sheehan Medical, which operates the Blackrock Clinic in Dublin, was granted permission by Cork County Council last May to build its Cork Medical Clinic on a 5.2 hectare site at Garranedarragh, off the Bandon Road in Bishopstown.

The 80-bed hospital, which included an Enable Ireland training facility on its campus, was to employ 400 people.