TII appeals permission for 10-storey hotel in Cork city suburb
Jacob's Island in 2007. The council received 10 letters from neighbouring properties, where homeowners expressed concerns about inadequate infrastructure in the area, the impact of traffic and congestion arising from the development as well as ecological and environmental concerns. File picture Denis Scannell
Transport Infrastructure Ireland has lodged an appeal against planning permission for a new 10-storey hotel outside Cork city as it claims it would “put at risk the public investment made and being made in the M8, N40 and associated junctions”.
TII said the plans for the 165-bed hotel at Jacob’s Island in Mahon, alongside separate plans for almost 500 homes on an adjacent site, represent an “intensification of development which will create a further unacceptable impact on the operation, capacity and safety of the N40” ring road around Cork.
