'Minor works' begin at Cork docklands housing development site

Glenveagh, through Marina Quarter Ltd, secured planning in 2021 for 1,002 apartments on the site off Centre Park Road, and close to Marina Park and Páirc Uí Chaoimh

The on-site activity has fuelled hopes that construction work on the apartments may be about to start soon. This scheme alone accounts for almost half of the estimated 2,000 apartment units which have been granted planning in Cork City, but which have yet to start construction. Picture: Larry Cummins

Developers with planning for 1,000 apartments in Cork’s docklands have begun initial site works on a scheme which has been hailed as a potential catalyst for the multi-billion regeneration of the city’s docklands region.

But the owners of the former Ford distribution site, which has hosted the annual Live at the Marquee summer concert series for almost 20 years, remain tight-lipped on a construction start date for what could become the first residential scheme in the south docks, and the largest private apartment scheme in the city.