Cork City Council starts planning enforcement action against itself over car park

A local authority has initiated planning enforcement action on itself over a car park planning case in Cork.

Cork City Council’s head of planning, Pat Ledwidge, confirmed to councillors on Monday that the council has triggered normal enforcement procedures against itself in relation to the development of an unauthorised car park in Mahon.

The council owns the land. The 320-space facility is used by staff of computer storage company EMC. Mr Ledwidge said that, in line with normal enforcement action, which includes the issuing of warning letters, the recipient of such letters has four weeks to respond.