Appeal delays plans for Cork Educate Together Secondary School

While the appeal has been lodged by one local couple, several other parties may also seek to overturn the council’s grant of planning permission for the new school

At their temporary premises on the Griffith College campus on Wellington Road, Principal of Cork Educate Together Secondary School Colm O'Connor, pupils and staff looking forward to their new school in Douglas, for which the Department of Education has lodged a planning application. Picture: Dan Linehan

Plans for a permanent home for Cork Educate Together Secondary School face delays after an appeal has been lodged against the decision to grant planning permission for the new school building on Carrigaline Road.

Local residents have appealed to An Bord Pleanála to overturn the decision of Cork City Council to approve the application by the Department of Education to build a 600-student school on a 4-hectare greenfield site adjoining Maryborough Woods estate.