Five-storey student block approved for wealthy Cork neighbourhood

The 30-apartment student development will have 216 bed spaces and be built on Orchard Road in Cork city

An Bord Pleanála has approved the construction of some 216 student beds on the site in Orchard Road. 

The state planning authority has given the nod for a 30-apartment student development between Victoria Cross and College Road in Cork, disagreeing with its inspector that it would negatively impact the area.

An Bord Pleanála greenlit Denis O’Brien Developments (Cork) Ltd’s application for a five-year planning permission for the student accommodation development at San Paula, Orchard Road, which proposes the construction of a one to five-storey development including 30 student apartments in three blocks with a total of 216 bed spaces.