Planning approved for more than 20 apartments in Ballincollig

An Bord Pleanala approved the revised scheme, a larger version of which had previously been rejected by Cork City Council.

A computer-generated image of the Tuath Housing Association 23-unit apartment project on the site of the former Gaelscoil Ui Riordain at Coolroe, in Ballincollig, Cork. A revised 21-unit plan has now been approved by An Bord Pleanala.

An Bord Pleanála has overturned a council decision and granted planning for a housing association apartment scheme on a former school site in Cork.

The decision paves the way for Tuath Housing Association to demolish the buildings, which previously housed Gaelscoil Uí Riordáin in Coolroe on the western outskirts of Ballincollig until its relocation in 2012 to a new school building in Carriginarra, and for the construction of 21 apartments in a four-storey building on the site.