Plans for 90 homes on Cork's Skehard Road set to be delayed
The Villa Maria site on Cork's Skehard road. Lyonshall has been granted planning permission for a residential scheme on the site. Picture: Google
Plans for 90 new homes on Cork's Skehard Road are set to be delayed due to an appeal.
In January, Lyonshall Ltd was granted permission for the works on a site named Villa Maria and its adjacent lands.
The plan includes 26 one-bed units, 48 two-bed homes, and 12 two-storey townhouses, all on a site that was previously refused permission for a mixed-use development which was to include an Aldi supermarket.
Cork City Council signed off on the proposal but imposed conditions which would limit the size of the scheme, omitting 18 of the proposed units.
A series of appeals, including one from the developer itself, now mean it will be referred to An Bord Pleanála.
The developer has appealed the condition to omit 18 homes, which would see the plan reduced from 90 to 72 houses, and there is also an appeal relating to conditions imposed on the height of the buildings in the new development.
Among the matters raised in the third-party appeals are concerns about traffic access and road safety, as well as the density of the scheme, and its potential impact on the character of the local area and neighbouring properties.
In nearby Blackrock, a plan to build nine new homes has been unveiled.
Boxline Developments has applied for planning permission to construct nine new homes in the former rear gardens of numbers 19 and 20 Donlocha Cottages in the Cork City suburb.
It wants to build four one-bed apartments, two two-bed apartments, and three two-bed houses, with all buildings a maximum of two storeys.
All the new homes would have private open spaces with balconies or ground-floor terraces or gardens.
A boundary wall is also proposed as are new vehicle and pedestrian access points.
Elsewhere, plans for some new city centre apartments in Cork have been lodged with the city council.
The planning department is now assessing the proposal from Bellmount Developments, which wants to build nine apartments in the city's historic core.
Located at 60/61 Shandon Street and Farrens Quay in Cork, the new development comprises modifications to the existing protected structures on the site to facilitate the construction of nine new apartments.
Eight of those would be studio apartments, with the remaining unit a one-bed apartment.
The proposal also includes the change of use for a ground floor unit, which is currently licensed for commercial use but would change to residential use.
An existing pub at the lower ground floor level would remain unchanged.
Meanwhile, hopes of building 11 new homes on a site in Passage West in Cork have been dashed.
Cork County Council planners have rejected an application by Kindis Property Development, which had sought permission to build 11 homes in two buildings on a site bound by Beach Road and Bay View in Passage West.
In rejecting the application, the council noted the "layout, design, scale, massing and material finish" of the proposal failed to "respect the character, pattern and tradition of the surround site".
It said, therefore, it would not be an acceptable "contribution to place-making" in the area.
It also claimed access, which was proposed to go via Bayview, would be inappropriate and could represent a traffic hazard.
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