Planning granted for nine-storey apartment tower in Blackpool

Some 114 apartments will be built in the new development, located just north of Cork City centre.

Artist' impression of the Redforge apartments block on the Millfield site by Bellmount Developments Ltd.

Planning has been granted for 114 apartments in a complex up to nine storeys high in Blackpool just north of Cork City, with suggestions that the urban village could take higher buildings.

The Bord Pleanála decision to approve the build-to-rent strategic housing development (SHD) scheme on Redforge Rd brings to almost 10 the number of large housing projects, many on brownfield sites, either planned or under way in the area.