Plans refused for 280 apartments on campus of former Bessborough mother and baby home

An artist's impression of the proposed 280-unit Meadows scheme at Bessborough, showing the proposed bridge to the Blackrock to Passage West greenway. An Coimisiún Pleanála gave two key reasons linked to concerns about housing mix and its design for rejecting the scheme.
A proposal for 280 apartments on part of the former Bessborough mother and baby home campus in Cork has been shot down.
An Coimisiún Pleanála, formerly An Bord Pleanála, gave two key reasons, linked to concerns about housing mix and its design, for rejecting Estuary View’s The Meadows scheme – one of two large residential schemes proposed by the company on separate sites it owns at Bessborough.