Decision on €180m Cork-Ringaskiddy road upgrade due on April 13

Bord Pleanála is to make a decision on April 13 on whether it will grant or refuse planning permission for the €180m upgrade of the Cork-Ringaskiddy road.

However, Cork County Council engineers are ploughing ahead with tender documents for the project, so, if the green light is given, there won’t be any hold-up with the plan.

Tom Stritch, the council’s director of roads, said that the Government has made €300,000 available to the local authority, this year, to progress that phase of the project.