Land parcel 5225372

Area

514 m²

Buildings

21 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 1,209 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

• 17 Sept 2024Conditional

  Permission for change of use of ground and first floors from financial services use to café use, along with new business signage, and any associated site development works

  Permission · Cork City Council, 2443263

• 30 Aug 2024N/a

  Permission for change of use of ground and first floors from financial services use to cafe use, along with new business signage, and any associated site development works.

  Permission · Cork City Council, 2443221

• 6 Oct 2023Conditional

  For retention permission. The development will consist of: Indefinite retention permission regarding the removal of the Ulster Bank raised signage lettering, general blue Ulster Bank signage, bus stop sign and the removal of the ATM, night-safe and bin infilled with glazing to match the existing. Indefinite retention permission regarding the removal of all interior merchandise, loose furniture and general blue signage.

  Retention · Cork City Council, 2342350

• 19 Aug 2021Conditional

  Permission for the redevelopment and amalgamation of retail units at St. Patrick’s Street, Cook Street, Oliver Plunkett Street and Robert Street, Cork City. The proposed works comprise the following: (1) Reconfiguration and alterations to the existing layout to provide for 2 floors of retail, with ancillary storage, office and staff uses, and plant and equipment on the 2nd and 3rd floors; (2) Change of use of 1 Cook Street and 3 Cook Street from restaurant use to retail use; (3) Change of use of 33-34 St. Patrick’s Street from commercial use to retail use; (4) Demolition works to 33-34 St. Patrick’s Street and 1-3 Cook Street to facilitate the reconfiguration of the retail space including demolition of existing floors and roofs and partial demolition if internal party walls; (5) Partial demolition of Elbow Lane, integrating the northern part of the laneway into the retail floor area. The southern part of Elbow Lane will remain as private access and yard space for independent retails units; (6) Demolition of southern wall of 31-34 St. Patrick’s Street and partial demolition of western façade of 27-30 St. Patrick’s Street to incorporate Elbow Lane; (7) Alterations to the facades of St. Patrick’s Street (Protected Structures PS414, PS415, PS416 and PS417), Cook Street, Oliver Plunkett Street and Robert Street, including signage, adjustment to shopfront plinths, glazing, parapet detailing and site entrances; (8) Widening of existing entrance at No.2 Cook Street to form a secondary entrance; (9) Provision of underground sprinkler tank; (10) Provision of new link corridor at second floor of 27-30 St. Patrick’s Street, connecting the existing bridge over Robert’s Street with the stock room at second floor level of 4-7 Robert Street; (11) Provision of new signage panels on facades of St. Patrick’s Street, Oliver Plunkett Street and Cook Street; (12) Construction of new electricity substation at ground floor level with access onto Robert Street; (13) Construction of new storm sewer under the footprint of 4 Cook Street (Protected Structure PS027); and (14) All associated ancillary site development works including drainage. The proposed development consists of the carrying out of works to Protected Structures PS414, PS415, PS416, PS417 and PS027.

  Permission · Cork City Council, 2140435

• 4 Feb 2019Conditional

  Permission for the development at Units 2 and 3, Winthrop Arcade, Oliver Plunkett Street, Cork City. The development will consist of the amalgamation of Units 2 and 3 (24.3m2) and the change of use of Unit 3 from retail to restaurant which will accommodate a new seating area. The development will also include new signage facia and 2 no. new sash windows at Unit 2 and all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork City Council, 1938228

• 24 Aug 2017Refused

  permission for change of use to ground floor from Retail to Retail with sales of coffee and food for consumption on and off premises to include alterations to interior signage, lighting and external extendable canopy

  Permission · Cork City Council, 1737548

• 13 Jul 2017Conditional

  permission for the development at this site, Ulster Bank. The development will consist of the removal of all teller counters, with minor internal wall reconfiguration to building. All proposed works to non-original fixtures fittings and partitions. Install a new letter plate to door on front elevation. The property is a protected structure. Reg No.20513066

  Permission · Cork City Council, 1737496

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

• House, 1900–1920 · Regional interest
  Description

  Pair of terraced two-bay three-storey former houses, built c. 1910, now in use as retail outlet. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystack. Rendered walls with moulded render shopfront, comprising of pilasters supporting entablature to ground floor. Timber sash windows to upper floors. Fixed timber window, timber panelled doors, and blocked openings to ground floor.

• Winthrop Arcade, shop/retail outlet, 1905–1925 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced three-storey gable-fronted entrance section to enclosed shopping arcade, c. 1915, having slate pitched roof to front section and glazed pitched roof over arcade, three-storey timbered façade with roughcast render infill, quatrefoil panels between windows and timber shopfront with carved consoles, retaining six paned timber casement windows in tripartite arrangement to Oliver Plunkett Street façade, with decorative timber trusses, mosaic floor, stall risers and glazed shopfronts internally; street frontages on Oliver Plunkett Street and Winthrop Street.

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.

Download this parcel as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program. GeoJSON, in WGS 84, suits a map, and KML opens in Google Earth.

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.