Planning notes: Go-ahead for further student digs

More additions to student accommodation provision in Cork are to be made after permission has been granted for a development with over 200 bed spaces near the city centre.

The application for the old Square Deal furniture premises at Washington Street West, a few hundred metres from the main University College Cork campus, was submitted to planners last April.

Following concerns about the scale and impact, and a council request for at least one of the six proposed storeys to be removed, changes that included a reduced-area top floor were made by the applicants Summix WSC Developments Ltd.