Anger as €100m shopping centre plans vetoed

A €100 MILLION shopping centre which had the backing of several thousand people in the north Cork area has been refused.

The proposed Shipton Group complex for Fermoy would have created hundred of jobs, it was claimed.

Anger is mounting locally over the An Bord Pleanála decision to turn down the scheme. The developers had, in recent years, created the highly successful Blackpool Shopping Centre in Cork city. Shipton Group had sought permission to build a massive retail, office and apartment complex on the site of the former mart in Fermoy.