Council grants Cork Airport permission to extend car parking facilities

The planning document said that during the recent Easter weekend 'there were a number of cars parked on kerbs to avoid turning passengers away'

A packed car park in the car rental lot at Cork Airport. Cork Airport has just over 4,500 long and short-term parking spaces currently. File picture: Larry Cummins

Planning permission has been granted to expand car parking at Cork Airport to help relieve the pressure on existing facilities that are “regularly at full capacity”.

Cork Airport applied for permission in May to add an additional 669 spaces to the Holiday Blue Long-Term Car Park at Cork Airport, increasing the number of spaces on that site by almost one third.