How a bridge put the brakes on plans for 1,300 Cork City apartments

Cork faces a potential decade-long delay in the delivery over the apartments due to An Bord Pleanála's refusal to allow a fertiliser facility to relocate its operations over poor road infrastructure 

Heavy vehicles would adversely impact on the carrying capacity of the R624 road serving Cobh and its hinterland and, in particular, the carrying capacity of Belvelly Bridge, an inspector for An Bord Pleanála said. Picture: Eddie O'Hare

Alarm bells should be ringing at the highest levels of Government if it is serious about balanced regional development and solving the housing crisis after poor road infrastructure put the brakes on one of the single largest residential schemes ever proposed in Cork City.

On one level, it is a story about how, in the teeth of a housing crisis, there is a potential decade-long delay in the delivery over 1,300 city apartments earmarked for Cork’s docklands.