Back on the menu

THE former Lovetts’ Restaurant in Cork City’s suburbs is back for sale as a development opportunity with planning for 19 units: it is priced at €500,000 with Savills agents, Isobel O’Regan and Sam Daunt.

The property, known as Ballinlough House, was one of the city’s top restaurants, trading for 30 years before it was sold and closed in 2006, in a deal reportedly worth around €4m, when bought by Lanes Homes, who planned 33 apartments on the site.

The building was subsequently listed, and, after several applications and an appeal to An Bord Pleanala, planning was granted in 2009 for 19 units, on a 0.24-ha site. Several of the units would be within the protected structure.