Planning decision for apartments on Bessborough site delayed

The graveyard at the Bessborough Centre in Blackrock, Cork, formerly Bessborough House mother and baby home. Picture: Laura Hutton/RollingNews.ie

A planning decision on an apartment block on the former Bessborough mother and baby home in Cork has been pushed back by a month.

An Bord Pleanála said it needs more time to consider the issues involved in the developer's appeal against a decision by Cork City Council to refuse planning for the proposed eight-storey, 67-unit block which forms part of the overall Gateway View project.