{"id":529746,"date":"2026-07-02T17:30:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T17:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/529746\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T17:30:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T17:30:11","slug":"permission-sought-for-262-new-homes-in-ballyvolane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/529746\/","title":{"rendered":"Permission sought for 262 new homes in Ballyvolane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">Planning permission is being sought for the construction of more than 260 new homes at a site in Ballyvolane.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">An application for the large-scale residential development (LRD) was submitted to Cork City Council by Longview Estates Ltd.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">The development, consisting of 262 apartments, duplexes, and houses, comes as part of an expansion to the existing Longview development on the Ballyhooly Rd, which is currently under construction and, once completed, will provide for more than 750 homes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">The proposed plans, seeking to develop a 7.62 hectare site, include a mix of one, two, three and four bed units, spread across five blocks of varying height.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">The plans also provide for the construction of a 76-space creche with 15 staff members, as well as 383 car parking spaces and 148 bicycle parking spaces.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">A series of communal open spaces will also be constructed as part of the development, as well as new vehicular, pedestrian and cycle connections to the east, west, and north of the site.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">In a planning statement submitted alongside the application, the applicant said the proposed development will make a \u201csignificant contribution to the delivery of housing in Cork city on underutilised serviced lands\u201d and provides \u201ca good housing mix that is reflective of verified housing needs\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">Cork City Council is due to make a decision on the application by August 19.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Planning permission is being sought for the construction of more than 260 new homes at a site in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":529747,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,4257,79,61,60],"class_list":["post-529746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-cork-business","tag-cork-news","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529746","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=529746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529746\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/529747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=529746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=529746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}