New lease of life

BLACKPOOL in Cork is one the most successful urban renewal schemes in the country its fortunes have been reversed, and the pace of change continues.

The changes begin at the Christy Ring Bridge with new apartments, and continue all the way out to the Pole Field and the €100 million new Blackpool Shopping Centre with retail park, cinema, offices and multi-storey car parking.

The large scale and socially corrosive dereliction which took hold since the mid-1900s is now being eaten into with gusto by a range of new developments, many of them residential, and in the bulk of a number of schemes the architectural input is high, auguring well for future generations.