Cork planning applications fall by over 50%

THE number of planning applications received by Cork County Council in the first three months of this year is down more than half on the boom years of 2006 and 2007.

Figures released yesterday by Ireland’s largest local authority show that just 350 applications were received in January, 478 in February and 451 in March.

The county council received a record total of 12,814 applications in 2006 and the following year the figure fell marginally to 12,632.