Plans to build 266 homes on landmark Cork City site approved 

The project will see 46 houses and 220 apartments built on the 14-acre St Kevin’s hospital site in Shanakiel, overlooking the Lee Fields, just west of the city centre

The listed red-brick St Kevin’s Hospital was gutted in a suspected arson attack in July 2017.

Ambitious plans to build 266 homes on a landmark state-owned site on the northside of Cork City have been approved.

An Bord Pleanála has given the green light to the Land Development Agency’s (LDA) strategic housing development (SHD) project to build 46 houses and 220 apartments on the 14-acre St Kevin’s hospital site in Shanakiel, overlooking the Lee Fields, just west of the city centre.