Objections delay Cork City Council efforts to buy derelict sites

The local authority was seeking to purchase buildings on Barrack St and North Main St, but the objections will cause a delay in this process

Derelict buildings above shops on North Main St, Cork City. Picture: Neil Michael

Objections have been lodged against the proposed compulsory acquisition of six derelict buildings in Cork City which have come to symbolise the blight of dereliction in cities.

News of the objections to Cork City Council’s simultaneous attempts to CPO four adjoining derelict buildings on North Main St and two adjoining derelict buildings on Barrack St, comes ahead of Monday’s deadlines for submissions on the process.