Plans lodged for almost 250 homes in Blarney as part of major town expansion
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Developers have lodged plans for 246 new homes in Blarney, as part of a wider project that would see hundreds of houses built just northwest of Cork City.
Clockstrike Ltd said it was submitting this bid, which includes a 61-child creche and a new access road onto Station Road, as part of the first phase of development at the Ringwood Urban Expansion Area.
In a planning document on the client’s behalf from Coakley O’Neill Town Planning, it said that extensive discussions had been held with Cork City Council on the development.
“During these meetings, the development of 485 and then 474 residential units and a crèche on the entirety of the zoned lands at Ringwood was discussed,” it said. “During the second Section 247 meeting, the phased development of the above under two separate planning applications was considered.”
It indicated that its next planning application will be made with the aim of delivering a further 307 homes, including sheltered housing units, on the northern portion of the lands at Ringwood. Plans are also afoot for a primary care centre in the area.
The 8.32 hectare area, 7km away from Cork City, is located near the centre of Blarney and is “immediately adjacent to [its] existing built footprint”.
The initial plan for 246 homes would constitute 101 apartments, 30 duplex homes and 115 two/three-storey houses.
“The need for the proposed development is justified on the basis of the urgent requirement for new residential dwellings on appropriately zoned and serviced sites within Cork City and the wider Cork Metropolitan Area,” Clockstrike planners said.
They also claimed it would also not give rise to “any undue negative traffic, public health or planning impacts”. They added that it will not cause any issues relating to flooding, ecology or natural or built heritage.
The developer has been in extensive consultations with Cork City Council regarding the plans for the site. Late last year, Finbarr O’Leary of Clockstrike met with council CEO Ann Doherty with details of a new relief road to the existing Station Road in the town up for discussion.
Cork City Council has set a date of August 7 for its decision on this planning permission application, with submissions from the public due in by July 17 at the latest.
This is not the first planning application submitted for a site at Ringwood, with a planning bid lodged for 192 homes in January with plans for roughly 2,500 new homes in all, making it one of the biggest projects to come before the council in recent times.
The overall scheme, likely to proceed over a 10-year time span and in phases, may have a value of up to €1bn when complete.
Mr O’Leary of Rock Fleet Group and Elkstone Capital Partners paid €7m to Nama for 105 acres at the Stoneview site next to the Blarney Business Park.