Cork's 'best suburban site in years' to be jointly developed by O'Callaghan Properties and Johnson & Perrott

Prime greenfield Douglas site has been growing corn for decades: now a crop of 113 homes is being sown

Field of housing dreams? This prime suburban Cork site in Douglas is ear-marked for a residential development of 113 units including houses, apartments and a creche is to be jointly developed by O'Callaghan Properties and Johnson & Perrott motor business owner Mark Whitaker

Leading Cork developers O’Callaghan Properties have joined forces with Johnson & Perrott family-owned motor business’s Mark Whitaker to develop one of the best remaining greenfield Cork suburban sites for housing.

Plans just lodged this week for 113 residential units for five acres/1.98 hectares on the South Douglas Road see the Whitaker family’s Mark Whitaker once more collaborate with O’Callaghan Properties (OCP) some 20 years after J&P sold its  former garage premises on the city centre’s Emmet Place to allow the development of the mixed use retail and apartment development Opera Lane.