{"id":644802,"date":"2026-10-04T20:14:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-04T20:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/644802\/"},"modified":"2026-10-04T20:14:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T20:14:13","slug":"prime-site-in-carrigaline-has-asking-price-of-e3-2m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/644802\/","title":{"rendered":"Prime site in Carrigaline has asking price of \u20ac3.2m"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"contextmenu internal_Body1st\">A prime site in the heart of Carrigaline has been launched to market with a guide price of \u20ac3.2m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">The 4.5-acre site \u2014 where the guide price equates to \u20ac711,111 per acre \u2014 has approval for a substantial mixed-use development, including a diverse range of 86 <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.echolive.ie\/corknews\/arid-41915374.html\"> housing units, <\/a>four commercial units, a public plaza, and car and bicycle parking spaces (47 and 174 respectively). Pedestrian access is also provided as part of the scheme.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">Of the 86 homes \u2014 17 in total \u2014 will be set aside for social and affordable housing as required by planning legislation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">The specific breakdown includes:<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">11 three-bed duplex units; 17 two-bed duplex units; Nine two-bed own door ground floor apartments; 12 one-bed own door ground floor apartments; 19 one-bed apartments, and 18 two-bed apartments.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">A cafe, gym, hair salon, day care, and newsagents are proposed for the ground floor commercial units.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">Boar\u2019s Head Ltd obtained planning permission for the mixed-use scheme last October, having acquired the site from German budget supermarket chain Aldi.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">Aldi, who bought eight acres in total some years ago, was required to submit a master plan for the site as part of their own planning application to build a \u20ac10m store. Once permission was granted, they returned surplus land \u2014 5.21 acres \u2014 to market in 2023 with an overall guide price of \u20ac2.9m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">Commercial agents Cushman &amp; Wakefield sold the land in two lots in 2024: 4.5 acres to Boar\u2019s Head, and the remainder to fast food chain McDonald\u2019s, who are currently building a drive-thru on a profile corner site.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">Several developers have been active in Carrigaline where housing demand is high, including Astra Construction, Ruden Homes and Bridgewater Homes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">Earlier this year, Cork County Council bought the home ground of Avondale Football Club \u2014 a 4.62-acre (1.9ha) site in Carrigaline \u2014in a deal valued at \u20ac2.5m. The land is zoned residential and could potentially accommodate up to 70 homes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">The Boar\u2019s Head site \u2014 adjacent to Carrigaline Main St, between Carrigaline Court Hotel and SuperValu \u2014 was part of land that had an ambitious development history dating back to the early 2000s, with joint development plans at the time by veteran retailer developers the Love family\u2019s Shipton Group, with local SuperValu retailer and hotelier Barry Collins also in the frame at the time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">However, the plan was deemed dependent on the western relief road, with compulsory purchase orders issued around 2007, just prior to the country\u2019s economic crash. The relief road only finally opened in 2022.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">Carrigaline has expanded greatly in the past decade or so and is now the largest town in county Cork with a population in excess of 18,000 \u2014 and growing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A prime site in the heart of Carrigaline has been launched to market with a guide price of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":644803,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[62890,72,79,61,60],"class_list":["post-644802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-cork-housing-crisis","tag-business","tag-cork-news","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644802","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=644802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644802\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/644803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=644802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=644802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=644802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}