Land parcel 5107192

Area

87 m²

Buildings

4 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 1,641 m².

Zoning

M2 City Centre (Cork City Development Plan 2022-2028 Variation No. 3 (NPF Implementation)) The objective

Townland

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Planning applications on this parcel

• 14 Jul 2017Conditional

  Trigon Hotels Ltd, intend to apply for a 10-year permission for full planning permission for the redevelopment and refurbishment of the Metropole Hotel and former P.J. O' Hea site at a site bounded by MacCurtain Street to the north, St. Patrick's Quay to the south and existing buildings to the east and west; Harley's Street traverses the centre of the site. The proposed development consists of 1) the demolition of buildings to the south of the original Metropole hotel including the modern existing rear extension, Leeside Leisure, and part of No. 25 St Patrick's Quay (the façade of No. 25 St. Patrick's Quay is to be kept and incorporated into the hotel redevelopment) and 2) the demolition of the former P.J. O' Hea building St Patrick's Quay and Harley's Street. The proposed development includes the construction of a new hotel extension of 6 floors over upper & lower ground level to the south of the existing Metropole Hotel with primary access from the existing MacCurtain Street Hotel entrance at Ground Floor level. It includes hotel accommodation of 140 new bedrooms, bar and restaurant facilities, 4 no. retail / cafe units at ground floor level, penthouse function rooms, 2 levels of basement parking for 92 cars, ancillary hotel uses and site access and development works. The refurbishment and renovation of the existing hotel building includes 43 bedroom suites and meeting rooms, the rein-statement of original ground floor frontage and the historic entrance on MacCurtain Street. The proposed development also allows for the construction of a new 228 bedroom hotel at the former P.J. O' Hea site consisting of 6 floors of bedroom accommodation over upper and lower ground floor lobby and including hotel bar with one retail unit, roof terrace and two no. link bridges to the Metropole Hotel over Harley's Street. The proposed overall development will allow for a total of 411 no. bedrooms. Access to the car park is via St. Patrick's Quay. The proposed development includes signage and all associated site development works. This application is accompanied by a Natura Impact Statement (NIS) and Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) / Environmental Impact Assessment Report (EIAR) The Metropole Hotel is a protected structure (Cork City Council Record of Protected Structures listing PS 185)

  Permission · Cork City Council, 1737497

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches this parcel.

Recorded monuments around it

No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.

Architectural heritage

• Isaac Bell's, house, 1840–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced two-bay three-storey former house, built c. 1850, now in use as public house. Pitched tile roof with rendered chimneystack. Rendered walls with raised render surrounds to upper floors openings. Carved timber shopfront, c. 1910, comprising of consoles with fascia and cornice, over single and pair of timber panelled doors with toplights, and timber fixed window. Replacement uPVC windows to upper floors.

Designated sites: National Parks and Wildlife Service. Recorded monuments: Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service. Buildings: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Works at or in relation to a recorded monument need two months' written notice to the National Monuments Service (National Monuments (Amendment) Act 1994, section 12).

Ground and risks

Radon

At the centre of this parcel, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map gives no landslide susceptibility class here. Parts of the land are made ground.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of this parcel.

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under CC BY 4.0. LiDAR: contains Irish Public Sector Data (Geological Survey Ireland & the Office of Public Works) licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.

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Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee.