A multi-million euro ‘gateway public realm upgrade’ leading into Cork City’s south docklands has been approved after key changes were agreed.
City councillors voted to grant Part 8 planning for the Cork docklands to city centre road network improvement scheme, paving the way for the first phase of the upgrades to start later this year.
The decision at the April meeting of the council last night comes six years after a legal challenge led to the scrapping of a similar docklands improvement scheme amid claims that its planning process was flawed, and amid concerns about the inclusion of elements of flood defence works and how they were initially advertised.
However, the decision to…