PLANNING NOTES: Togher Road SuperValu goes for super-size

A busy southside supermarket in Cork City is proposed for expansion into a neighbourhood centre.

The Ryan’s SuperValu on Togher Road, near the Lough, would undergo a 1,224-square-metre ground-floor extension, with a 530-square-metre first-floor extension to comprise office, medical-related and professional-services uses. A 3,000-square-metre basement, to accommodate 86 parking spaces, is also proposed in the plans lodged with Cork City Council in June. The application, from Togher Supermarkets Ltd, also sets out details for changes to the site layout, including additional surface parking and revised access and public-road junction arrangements.

* An Bord Pleanala has overturned a council decision to refuse permission for a scheme of 270 new homes in Portmarnock, Co Dublin.