Grounds of Cork City GAA club rezoned for housing against advice of city officials

Rezoning votes were taken during a special meeting of Cork City Council which considered almost 470 proposed material amendments to the draft city development plan 2022-2028

Once the city development plan takes effect in August, the planning regulator will consider how its recommendations have been addressed by the local authority, before deciding on its next steps. File picture: Denis Minihane

The grounds of a Cork city GAA club have been rezoned for housing against the advice of city officials and despite warnings from the Green Party that it was “terrible planning” and would create “a cash cow for the GAA”.

On a night of several contentious rezonings for the city, land in a flood risk area was earmarked for likely use as a car park and two parcels of land in Hollyhill/Nash’s Boreen, which were zoned open public space, have also been rezoned for residential, institutions, and community use — again, against the advice of officials.