€100m project will 'set scale' for quays

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Archiseek / Ireland / News / 2005 / October 13

A new €100 million residential development on one of Cork's quays will set the scale for future development of the city's docklands, an An Bord Pleanála oral hearing was told yesterday. Hugh Murray of Murray O'Laoire, lead architect of the project, said it was essential that the Water Street development by Werdna Ltd on Cork's north docklands was the correct height. "This project is going to set the scale for all future developments. I feel passionately that if we set it too low, we will make a mistake for the rest of the waterfront in the city," Mr Murray told the hearing chaired by An Bord Pleanála inspector David Dunne. Werdna Ltd is appealing two conditions attached by Cork City Council to a revised 304-apartment proposal for Water Street submitted after the council refused permission for a 400-apartment complex.

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