Objections to 'unnecessary' land purchase for Cork schools site

Landowners say other sites should have been considered to house two schools currently in temporary rented buildings

Le Chéile secondary school is based in modular accommodation behind Ballincollig's community school.

Landowners objecting to a compulsory purchase order (CPO) for a two-school campus in a Cork town, where two schools are already in temporary rented accommodation, have described the move as “unnecessary and disproportionate” and suggested other sites should have been considered.

Witnesses for the estate of the late Merle Tanner set out their objections to Cork City Council’s proposed CPO of some 15 hectares of their land at Lisheens, west of Ballincollig, during a Bord Pleanála oral hearing into the CPO on Thursday.