VIDEO: Student flats proposed in flood-risk zone in Cork

A planning application for a student apartment complex in one of Cork’s flood-risk zones has been lodged which the backer say will help ease the city’s chronic student bed shortage.

Just days after the flooded Carrigrohane Rd reopened to traffic, and with giant sandbags still ringing County Hall, city planners are now considering an application for a new student accommodation complex on a nearby site which flooded in 2009.

Developers Gainstar Ltd Partnership are seeking permission to demolish the former Coca-Cola bottling plant, just west of County Hall, and build 92 student apartments — a mix of three to six-bedroom apartments — in buildings ranging in height from four to seven storeys. The complex will have just over 400 bedrooms.