Developer to proceed with original apartment plan for Cork's Sextant site 

Company said changes in Government policy meant original plan was now viable

Work underway on the site of the former Sextant Bar on Albert Quay, Cork. Picture Dan Linehan

The developer of the former Sextant bar site in Cork city is to revert to their original plans and build residential apartments.

The JCD Group, through Progressive Commercial Construction Ltd, had originally secured planning permission in 2020 for a 25-storey residential development with more than 200 apartments on the former Careys Tool Hire and Sextant bar site in the city's South Docklands.