Green light for health care centre beside Blarney Castle
The former Blarney Park Hotel, in the shadow of world-renowned Blarney Castle. The site will now be used for a mixed-use development, including a three-storey primary health care centre, just given the green light by An Bord Pleanála. Picture: Larry Cummins
An Bord Pleanála has given the green light for a primary health care centre near Blarney Castle in Cork — against the recommendation of one of its planning inspectors.
It is the second time in recent weeks that the board has decided not to accept the recommendation of one of its own inspectors in relation to a project on a sensitive area of land just to the north of the world-famous castle, on the north-western fringes of the city, and has instead granted planning.
