A High Court order has quashed planning for 406-bed student accommodation in Cork city, returning the application to An Coimisi\u00fan Plean\u00e1la for further deliberation.<\/p>\n
The application, lodged by Lyonshall Ltd in December 2024, sought to demolish the former St Joseph\u2019s Convent on the Model Farm Rd in Bishopstown for a purpose-built student accommodation complex, with an on-site cafe.<\/p>\n
The proposed complex, comprising more than 50 apartments, ranging from three to seven bed spaces, and more than 70 studio apartments, would be delivered in two apartment blocks, ranging from two to five storeys in height.<\/p>\n
Woodlawn Residents Association (WRA) had opposed the application, citing a range of concerns, including impacts to traffic congestion and parking, as well as an unreliable public transport service; visual impacts to surrounding homes; and concerns for the density and concentration of the number of proposed units.<\/p>\n
Judicial review proceedings were taken against An Coimisi\u00fan Plean\u00e1la last July by the WRA and other local residents, Killian Kenny, Dan Byrne, and Gerard O\u2019Mahony.<\/p>\n
An Comisi\u00fan Plean\u00e1la decided not to oppose the case, leading to the High Court order to send the matter back for reconsideration.<\/p>\n
Further delays<\/p>\n
Kieran Coughlan, managing director of Lyonshall, said the decision to revert to An Coimisi\u00fan Plean\u00e1la will \u201cinevitably lead to further delays, leaving students without accommodation\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur company is developing a purpose-built student accommodation facility designed to address the critical shortage of quality student housing in Cork,\u201d said Mr Coughlan.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe project represents a significant investment in Cork accommodation and has been designed to meet the highest standards of sustainable development whilst contributing to the city\u2019s compact growth objectives.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe development received planning permission following a comprehensive assessment process.\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cWe remain fully confident in the merits of this development [and] we remain confident that the development will again receive approval upon completion of the remittal process,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhile we had hoped to have it operational for the 2028 academic year, it has now been pushed back by at least a year.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A High Court order has quashed planning for 406-bed student accommodation in Cork city, returning the application to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":317520,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[781,9,10,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,5,153972,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-317519","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-cork-news","9":"tag-breaking-news","10":"tag-breakingnews","11":"tag-eire","12":"tag-featured-news","13":"tag-featurednews","14":"tag-headlines","15":"tag-ie","16":"tag-ireland","17":"tag-latest-news","18":"tag-latestnews","19":"tag-main-news","20":"tag-mainnews","21":"tag-news","22":"tag-student-housing","23":"tag-top-stories","24":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116004984150129795","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317519","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=317519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317519\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/317520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}