A major boost to housing stock on the northside of Cork city is in the pipeline under plans that will see hundreds of homes built in Ballyvolane.

The regeneration of Cork’s docklands has stepped up another gear with work underway on a €125m office block on the northern quays which will be able to accommodate more than 2,250 workers by mid-2020.

People thought he was mad when he announced plans in 2004 to stage a series of summer concerts, by some of the world’s biggest stars, in a large tent in Cork’s docklands.

A development company in Nama has objected to a massive office block project in Cork City which has the potential to deliver 2,000 jobs.

Broadcaster, Pat Kenny has suffered a set-back in his battle to prevent a high-density development proceeding on a site adjacent to his Dalkey home.

The need to end the gridlock at city’s key road junction has intensified, writes Sean O’Riordan

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Standing on the outdoor roof-top terrace of the rapidly completing 250,000 sq ft Penrose Dock office scheme on Cork’s North Quays docklands, developer John Cleary looks south over the River Lee, and then downriver, to the east. The JCD group MD says,“over there was the last 15 years....and down there is the next 40 years.”

Plans by John Cleary Developments (JCD) for a new, €125 million quayside office scheme on an assembled 1.8 acre site on Cork city’s Penrose Quay, close to the railway station, may bring the company’s tally of offices developed in Cork to well over one million square feet, in just over a decade of activity.