Traveller horse project blocked

Plans for the first Traveller horse grazing project of its kind in Cork have been reined in.

City officials have admitted that they have to go back to the drawing board after Cork County Council refused planning permission for the scheme on a 35-acre site on the northern banks of the River Lee near Leemount, on the western outskirts of the city.

County planners said the site is within an area under consideration as a route option for the Cork Northern Ring Road scheme and that the application was “premature” pending the final determination of the route.