{"id":516509,"date":"2026-06-24T20:24:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T20:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/516509\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T20:24:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T20:24:11","slug":"kfc-and-costa-drive-thru-plans-ruled-out-by-cork-city-council-planners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/516509\/","title":{"rendered":"KFC and Costa drive-thru plans ruled out by Cork City Council planners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">\n             <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.echolive.ie\/corknews\/arid-41865480.html\">Cork City Council<\/a> planners have ruled out the drive-thru elements of two planned cafe\/restaurants on the city\u2019s Kinsale Rd.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">A planning application was lodged in February for the construction of two drive-thrus located at the junction of Musgrave Park and the new Creamfields housing development.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Fast food chain KFC and coffee operator Costa are the planned occupants of the future restaurants to be located on a section of the carpark at the western edge of the Turners Cross Retail Park, formerly Kinsale Road Retail Park, whose current tenants include Woodies, Homestore + More, and DID Electrical.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Owner of the site, the MSL Group (Motor Services Limited) lodged plans for the development. The same company secured permission for a similar development at the site in 2020, but it was not developed, and the permission has since expired.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">In its applications, Motor Services Ltd said the previous planning approval establishes the principle of just an establishment at this location.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">However, City Hall planners issued a request for further information and said the inclusion of the drive-thru element to each unit contravene the City Development Plan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cWhile a refusal on this basis alone has been considered, the applicant is to be afforded an opportunity to revise the proposed scheme, omitting the drive-through elements,\u201d the planners stated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Work is currently under way across the road on the Creamfields development. Housing agency Respond is working with builder\/developer Cairn Homes to deliver 606 apartments at the site following Dairygold\u2019s \u20ac25.6m sale of the former CMP Dairies facility to the developer last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Creamfields will include a 15-storey landmark building, creating a new focal point in the city with work continuing at the site over the next three years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Planning permission was also granted in December for a housing development of the nearby former Vita Cortex site. Galway-based BML Duffy Property Group plans to build 170 new homes distributed across four blocks. Cork City Council also has plans to build homes on a site adjacent to the Vita Cortex site, with 39 dwellings to be built in five blocks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cork City Council planners have ruled out the drive-thru elements of two planned cafe\/restaurants on the city\u2019s Kinsale&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":516510,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,79,61,60],"class_list":["post-516509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-cork-news","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516509","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=516509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516509\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/516510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=516509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=516509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=516509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}