Progress has been made on a long-awaited primary care centre for Mayfield and Ballyvolane, with Cork City Council granting planning permission to the HSE for the facility.<\/p>\n
The HSE have said the Mayfield and Glanmire Primary Care Centres (PCCs) are being delivered via the operational lease model.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe current status of the Glanmire PCC facility is that construction works have started on site,\u201d the HSE said in a statement.<\/p>\n
Work started in October of this year, and is expected to take two years to complete.<\/p>\n
In the case of the Mayfield\/Ballyvolane PCC, the HSE said the the developer had notified the HSE that Cork City Council has issued a decision to grant planning permission for the facility.<\/p>\n
\n \u201cThe project will now advance through the final statutory phases, including the formal grant of permission, detailed design finalisation, and legal documentation.\u201d\n <\/p>\n
Planning documents say that permission has been granted for a the construction of a four-storey primary care centre on Ballyhooly Road.<\/p>\n
The development will be accessed via a new vehicular\/pedestrian access off Ballyhooly Road and provides for internal roads and footpaths and future pedestrian connection to the north. The proposed development also includes the provision of one retail unit and two GP Practices at ground floor level, as well as solar panels, bike and car parking.<\/p>\n
\u201cI am glad that the Primary Care Centre for Mayfield is finally going to construction,\u201d Cork North Central TD Thomas Gould, who was given the information, said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis has dragged on for far too long \u2014 it was talked about when I was first elected in 2020. I truly believe that if it wasn\u2019t for pressure from elected representatives and the public, these primary care centres would drop off the agenda altogether.<\/p>\n
\u201cI hope that construction happens quickly and we see care in the heart of Mayfield sooner rather than later.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Sinn F\u00e9in TD added: \u201cI am calling for a full review of these projects. The government claim that privately leasing these centres speeds up delivery \u2014 it is clear from Mayfield\u2019s case that this didn\u2019t happen.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n The Echo previously revealed that the HSE is paying more than \u20ac3m a year to private companies for eight existing primary care centre buildings in Cork, which they have a 25-year lease on under the same model being used to develop to Mayfield\/Ballyvolane centre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Progress has been made on a long-awaited primary care centre for Mayfield and Ballyvolane, with Cork City Council…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":215921,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[79,96619,2120,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-215920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-cork-news","tag-glanmire","tag-hse","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215920\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}