Apartment plan for Cork GAA grounds still in play

IF this year’s Gaelic football championship proved anything it was that the match is definitely not over until the referee blows his whistle.

And so it goes too with the planning system. Plans by Cork based development company Dildar for a major housing development on the former hallowed grounds of Cork GAA kingpins Nemo Rangers had got the green light from Cork City Council in August.

The plans propose the construction of 204 units on the former playing fields and would include 52 three-storey detached, semi-detached and terraced houses and 153 apartments in five and six-storey blocks.

A creche and a private gym would also be included. But nearby neighbours are evidently not too pleased with the proposed development on the city’s Douglas Road and have appealed it to An Bord Pleanala. Still all to play for.