Site on Cork's Airport Road could land hotel operator and 300 apartments

Hoteliers showing interest in legacy site with planning for 158-room hotel guiding €3.5m

Ballycurreen site at the foot of Cork city's Airport Hill and Kinsale Road now has full planning for a 158-bed hotel and 300 apartments

HOTEL groups are running the rule over a Cork site up for sale with planning permission recently secured after third party appeals, approved now for a 158-bed hotel, in a profile building of up to eight storeys on the Kinsale Road at Ballycurreen, between the city and the international airport.

The hotel site of 2.15 acres is part of a c seven acre mixed use land parcel at Ballycurreen which also include plans for c 130 apartments and duplexes in 12 blocks of three storeys each as well as other neighbourhood uses.