Planning application for Mallow relief road expected to be lodged before end of year

The timeline was confirmed in a response to a parliamentary question to the Transport Minister Eamon Ryan from local Labour TD Sean Sherlock

The proposed relief road is designed to ease traffic congestion in Mallow town centre, which has experienced increased gridlock in recent years. File Picture: Denis Scannell

A planning application for the proposed Mallow relief road in north Cork is expected to be lodged before the end of the year.

Cork County Council's application to An Bórd Pleanála for the 5.1km road, which will run just north of the busy town, is due in the final quarter of the year and will include a raft of compulsory purchase orders for the land required for the scheme.