PLANNING NOTES: Old Youghal textile factory will not be redeveloped

Permission for the redevelopment of a former textile factory in Youghal has been overturned by An Bord Pleanala.

Cork County Council had approved the plans, last December, to Seafield Partnership, who had sought permission in May, 2014. The application, amended by further information supplied in November, was to demolish a house and factory on the site of the disused Seafield Technical Textiles factory. The plan was to build a mixed-use neighbourhood centre, with a discount foodstore, six retail service units, an office unit, restaurant with drive-through facility, and parking for 178 cars.

Following third-party appeals, a planning inspector recommended refusal, as the scale of development would exceed the neighbourhood use for which the site was zoned so as not to detract from the town centre.