Cork council to seek plans for landmark building’s future on Lapps Quay

Ideas are being sought from the open market to help breathe new life into a city-owned historic former bank building.

Cork’s city councillors agreed last night for a new process to start next month which will invite proposals for the use of the landmark former Cork Savings Bank property on Lapps Quay and which could see it return to civic use.

The 7,600 sq ft property, which includes No 1 Lapps Quay and No 16 Parnell Place and which served as a Permanent TSB branch until its closure in 2012, was acquired by the city in July 2014.