Plans lodged for 420 apartments on Bessborough site in Cork

It includes proposals for 140 build-to-sell apartments, a 25-space creche, and communal open spaces

The site of the proposed apartments at Bessborough, Cork. Picture: Denis Scannell

Plans have been lodged for 420 apartments, some in buildings up to 10-storeys high, on part of the former Bessborough mother and baby home estate in Cork.

Estuary View Enterprises 2020 Ltd, which owns most of the former Bessborough lands, has submitted plans to An Bórd Pleanála through the strategic housing development process (SHD) in an application which includes two distinct submissions relating to two landbanks.