Waterfront site a shore thing

A waterfront, 2.5-acre site in West Cork’s Baltimore port and tourist village, earmarked for a marina and tourism development, is for sale.

The site has a €150,000 to €200,00 price, via joint agents, DTZ Sherry FitzGerald and Charles P McCarthy, in Skibbereen, who say that it has “a positive planning history.”

Work on the site was commenced by developer and sailor, Dave Dwyer, who also developed the adjacent, largely completed Mariners Cove residential estate — and where remaining houses were recently offered at reduced prices by the same joint agents, with 60% under offer.

The 2.5-acre site, with foreshore access at Church Strand, is next to the RNLI lifeboat station, which has just been refurbished for €4m over the last 18 months. This will cater for the enhanced service, holding the inshore lifeboat, while the new, offshore lifeboat, ‘Alan Massey’, will be stationed alongside.

Selling agent Peter O’Flynn, of DTZ Sherry FitzGerald, says that “other significant improvements have also been made to the infrastructure, in terms of the outside compound and car parking.” A new, Baltimore village treatment plant has been installed by Cork County Council, plus €8m was spent on the north and south piers. The site for sale is zoned for marina activity and high quality tourist projects, but the previous planning has lapsed. The site includes a three-storey, steel-frame structure for accommodation uses.

Details: DTZ Sherry FitzGerald, 021-4275454; Charles McCarthy Estate Agents, 028-21533