Plans for market in car park ejected

PLANS to establish an open air market in a car park in a west Cork town have been shot down.

Councillors in Clonakilty voted against designating the Kent Street, or former credit union, car park site for casual trading after being told the move would result in a hike in rates and scupper a sheltered housing project earmarked for the site.

Town officials told councillors that the site, on which an illegal market was held on August 8, was bought for €381,000 in 2000 for sheltered housing for the elderly.