Move to fast-track revised €80m hospital application

AN amended planning application is to be made directly to An Bord Pleanála for an €80 million private hospital in Cork city.

Developer Owen O’Callaghan is to seek to fast-track a revised application for a hospital/clinic for the old Jurys Hotel site on Lancaster Quay/Western Road.

The planning appeals body refused permission for the scheme in September, on the basis of flooding risks in the area, which could jeopardise access to and from the hospital site.