Planning permission is being sought for a large scale residential development (LRD) in Cork at the former site of Ireland\u2019s first Turkish Baths.<\/p>\n
An application, lodged by OMD(C) Ltd, was submitted to Cork City Council last month, seeking permission to construct a 100-residential unit development at the former St Ann\u2019s Hydropathic Establishment in Blarney.<\/p>\n
The proposed development will see the partial demolition, conservation and refurbishment of the remains of the former Turkish Baths, which is a protected structure, to construct 63 new houses, 23 new apartment units, and 14 new apartment\/duplex units, as well as a creche facility.<\/p>\n
The former Turkish Baths, founded by Dr Richard Barter in 1843, operated as a purpose-built facility for the provision of hydro-therapy medical care for people suffering from diseases of the body and mind.<\/p>\n
While at its peak during the 1870s, during the Victorian-age of medicine, the baths operated for more than 100 years, only closing its doors in 1952.<\/p>\n
The partial demolition, conservation and refurbishment of the baths, will facilitate the integration of the remains into a proposed two storey apartment building.<\/p>\n
The two-storey building will consist of 16 apartments, inclusive of eight 1-bedroom and eight 2-bedroom units, with an adjacent two storey mixed-use building, housing a creche at ground floor and two 2-bedroom apartments at first floor.<\/p>\n
The plans also provide for the partial demolition, conservation and refurbishment of the remains of the former stable buildings, to facilitate integration into six terrace units, inclusive of one four-bedroom, three three-bedroom and two two-bedroom homes.<\/p>\n
They further provide for the refurbishment and change of use of the former Coach House, to facilitate one three-bedroom detached dwelling house, and for the construction of a two storey apartment building, accommodating five apartment units, inclusive of two two-bedroom and three one-bedroom units.<\/p>\n
The construction of a two-three storey apartment\/duplex building, accommodating 14 units, is also provided for, inclusive of seven two-bedroom, and seven one-bedroom units.<\/p>\n
The proposed development additionally provides for the construction of a further 56 detached, semi-detached and terraced dwelling houses, comprising 15 four-bedroom, 17 three-bedroom and 24 two-bedroom units.<\/p>\n
The plans also include the restoration of the former Clock Tower structure and parkland, which served the former St Ann\u2019s Hydropathic Establishment.<\/p>\n
Cork City Council is due to make a decision on the application by November 13.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Planning permission is being sought for a large scale residential development (LRD) in Cork at the former site…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":117203,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[9,10,71890,18,13,14,6,3847,19,17,11,12,15,16,5,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-117202","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-cork-development","11":"tag-eire","12":"tag-featured-news","13":"tag-featurednews","14":"tag-headlines","15":"tag-housing","16":"tag-ie","17":"tag-ireland","18":"tag-latest-news","19":"tag-latestnews","20":"tag-main-news","21":"tag-mainnews","22":"tag-news","23":"tag-top-stories","24":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117202\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}