Developer plans third largest Cork hotel at €25m cost

Planning permission has been sought for a €25m-plus, 165-bed hotel off Cork City’s South Mall, which, if granted, will make it the city’s third largest hotel.

Hotel chain Dalata, though associated company Leevlan Ltd, this week signalled its intention to increase the bedrooms tally, from 120 to 165 beds, on an existing part-developed hotel site it purchased this year from Nama for €10.2m. Over 60 jobs are anticipated by the third quarter of 2018.

Initially part-developed by the Corbett family but left in a core state post-recession, the site is located between the historic 125-bed Imperial Hotel and the 191-bed Clayton (ex-Clarion) Hotel on Lapps Quay.