Six-floor Bon Secours hospital plan approved

The major extension proposed for the Bon Secours Hospital, in Cork City, has been approved by An Bord Pleanála.

In plans submitted a year ago to Cork City Council, Bon Secours Health System sought permission for the six-floor extension to the College Road facility.

Those plans included the addition of hospital accommodation that would extend by more than half the existing gross floor space of 22,000 square metres, to the rear of the main building. As well as patient bedrooms, a replacement oncology ward and new radiotherapy facilities were included in the plans, along with an improved operating theatre and critical-care unit.