NRA wants plan for 1,200 homes to be rejected

THE National Roads Authority (NRA) believes planning permission should be refused for 1,210 houses on the outskirts of Cork City because it would lead to even further traffic congestion at the Jack Lynch Tunnel/Dunkettle interchange.

Dermot Flanagan, for the NRA, said one of the main reasons an Bord Pleanála refused the Port of Cork permission for a new container terminal at Ringaskiddy was because the extra traffic it would generate would have had a major impact on the already overloaded interchange.

Mr Flanagan said that traffic generated by O’Flynn Construction’s proposal to build a large number of houses at Dunkettle should be viewed in the same light and therefore permission should be refused.