Aug 08
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Prosposed Development – Maryville Estate
A recent planning application to City Hall (T.P.08/33228 ) sought permission to construct a four storey building plus rooftop attic accommodation on Sweeney’s Yard, Monahan Road. The application contains a creche, a total of twenty four dwellings (including apartments and duplexes) and new vehicular access for a basement car park for 39 cars at Monahan’s Road.
On August 19th 2008, Cork City Council have requested further information from the developer. The position is that this decision has postponed pending the submission of this information. The developer has six months to submit this information and once City Hall has received it, a decision will be made with four weeks. All those who have made submissions will receive copies of the information submitted by the developer.
FURTHER INFORMATION REQUEST AS SOUGHT BY CORK CITY COUNCIL
1. A complete schedule of external floor areas in the proposed development.
2. In the context of the infrastructure strategy as adopted in the South Docks Local Area Plan details how the development would accommodate this flood risk in particular with respect to the location of habitable/vulnerable building use.
All basements shall be passively protected against flooding to the minimum ground floor level. There shall be no reliance on human or mechanically activated means to protect the basements to this minimum level.
3. (a) Site layout, ground floor plan and landscape plan etc shall all be revised to omit encroachment onto public road (i.e. grass margin outside the site, south of southern footpath of Monahan’s Road).
(b) Sight-lines of 70m shall be provided, to the nearside kerb, to both left and right of any proposed exit, to Cork City Council satisfaction. Sight lines shall not be obstructed by tree or parallel parking or by any structures taller than 1m off public road. N.B. Sight-lines, as shown on drawing 0427-P-100 rev. 0 are not satisfactory.
(c) Gradient of car park ramp, where it crosses the existing public footpath & public grass margin (which is shown as 1:8 ) is far too steep. All road & footpath gradients shall be between 1 in 200 & 1 in 20 & in no case shall be steeper than 1 in 12, (vehicle ramps under-cover in basements may be at steeper gradients).
