Intensification of Cork's purpose-built student accommodation gathers pace near UCC

Victoria Cross district sees further ten-storey, 243-bed  block for  students near controversial Orchard Road site

Greenlighted: Victoria Cross to get a further tall student apartment block on the former Quinlan Honda garage site  being promoted by the Kelleher family's Bellmount Developments

PLANNING permission has been granted for a further tall, c €30million+, 243-bed student accommodation complex at Cork city’s Victoria Cross, on a former garage site which has been sold for €4.1 million.

It features several blocks, including one of ten storeys, facing UCC’s own ongoing Crow’s Nest 255-bed facility, under advanced construction with Sisk and which itself has four blocks of seven to nine storeys, under the shadow of the 16-storey County Hall.