Probe into removal of landmark sculpture

Planning officials in Cork have launched an investigation into the removal of landmark public sculpture from a prominent city site.

Planning enforcement officers have issued a warning letter under Section 152 of the planning and development act to the owner and developer of the building on Watercourse Rd in Blackpool for non-compliance with a planning condition.

If follows confirmation that the 10ft by 10ft bronze sculpture of dray horses pulling a cart of kegs, installed on the gable wall of an apartment block, was a piece of public art and was installed as a condition of planning when permission was granted in 2004 for the development of the apartment block.