Traffic, height issues objections to plans

Traffic and building shoulder height issues have been raised in a submission by management of Cork’s Elysian development in relation to revised office block plans for a neighbouring city centre site.

At the end of last month, Progressive Commercial Construction Ltd — a John Cleary firm — and BAM Property submitted revised plans for its One Albert Quay project, on land currently occupied by disused warehouses. It sought to build an eight-storey scheme of offices with some ground floor retail use, instead of the nine-storey development for which it was given permission previously by Cork City Council.

When that approval was appealed by third parties, and subsequently became the subject of court proceedings by Elysian Management Ltd (ELM), the applicant companies had withdrawn the original application.