High hopes as plans for latest Cork tower lodged

Cork City’s 17-storey Elysian apartment building may be about to get a neighbouring tower, with planning permission set to be lodged this week for an apartment development of 118 units 200m away.

A ‘fast-track’ strategic housing development application is being made to Bord Pleanála for the ‘build to rent’ 17-storey apartment scheme called Railway Gardens on the 0.8 acre site adjacent to the South Link Service Station, with access from Rockborough Road and linking into the pedestrian bridge/Hibernian Road, close to the Bord Gáis Cork HQ.