Cork businesses concerned over plans to cut 115 parking spaces

Cork Business Association members have expressed concern about the proposed reduction of a large number of parking spaces in the city centre and the closure of St Patrick’s Street to traffic.

The loss of 115 car-parking slots at Morrison’s Island to facilitate a planned flood relief scheme and the traffic ban on the city’s main thoroughfare dominated the latest CBA meeting.

CBA chief executive Lawrence Owens said the business community welcomes the relief works planned for Morrison’s Island, primarily as it is the area where flooding waters spill out into the rest of the city centre.