Major development on site of derelict Blarney Park Hotel gets go-ahead
The Blarney Park Hotel when it was closed in October 2007. The Irish Conference and Leisure Holdings had appealed the decision to the board which has now granted planning. Picture: Larry Cummins
An Bord Pleanála has granted planning for the regeneration of a long-time derelict former hotel site close to the world-famous Blarney Castle on the outskirts of Cork city.
The board went against its own inspector’s recommendation to refuse planning for the mixed-use development on the site of the former Blarney Park Hotel site, and upheld an appeal of Cork City Council's decision last year to refuse planning for the project proposed by Irish Conference and Leisure Holdings Limited, of which Freda Hayes, of Blarney Woolen Mills, is a director.
