New plans lodged at Fermoy for M8 motorway services

New plans have been lodged for a motorway service area off the M8 motorway near Fermoy in north Cork.

Last January, An Bord Pleanála overturned Cork County Council’s decision of over a year ago to approve the proposal by JR Oronoco Ltd for a similar project. It was deemed that the plans — along with a separate application near Mitchelstown by another developer — were premature in the absence of update national service area policy by the National Roads Authority.

The council has now received an application from the same firm for a service area near Junction 14 on the Cork-Dublin route, at Moorepark West. The company proposes to build a shop/restaurant with drive-through facility, a forecourt and fuel facilities for heavy commercial vehicles, picnic and external seating/amenity areas, as well as changes to the existing entrance onto the regional route currently serving the Teagasc agricultural research facility at Moorepark.