Blackpool set for 191 apartments in new 'Distillery Quarter' taking in Hewitt's Mill

New "Distillery Quarter," planned for Blackpool

TWO Cork landowning families are behind plans lodged with An Bord Pleanála for an ambitious build-to-rent scheme in Cork city’s northside suburb of Blackpool.

If the 191 apartment development is given the go-ahead, it will see the conversion of a 230-year-old former distillery building, Hewitt’s Mill, into apartments, as well as the construction of two nine-storey apartment blocks on wasteland directly opposite the Revenue Commissioners’ offices on Assumption Road.