Former Cork city garage will be knocked for 206-bed student accommodation block
The Kelleher brothers driving on with plans for another student accommodation project
15:10, 3 OCT 2024
The former Finbarr Galvin dealership at Victoria Cross has been closed for years
A vacant car dealership
property will be demolished for a 7-storey accommodation block as An Bord Pleanala gives the go-ahead for the student
housing project.
The former Finbarr Galvin Motor Dealership on Victoria Cross Road will be knocked to make space for a new housing block comprising 78 student apartments. The new accommodation will deliver over 200 new student beds about a kilometre from
UCC.
The apartments will range in size from single-bedroom studio apartments to eight-bedroom apartments.
Artist's impression of the planned student apartment block
The company behind the project is Bellmount Developments, owned by the Kelleher brothers, whose portfolio includes a number of student accommodation projects in Cork including 20 apartments at the neighbouring Kelleher's Tyres site at Dennehys Cross and a block of 40 apartments at the former Kellehers Auto Centre on Wilton Road.
Bellmount Developments was established by Padraig and Seamus Kelleher in 2017. The company is behind a number of major regeneration projects across the city. In Shandon, they hope to transform two eyesore properties on Pope's Quay.
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60 and 61 Shandon Street, which face out onto both Shandon Street, Pope's Quay and the short stretch of Farren's Quay, have been lying idle for years and years, falling into decay and trashed by neglect and graffiti.
Bellmount Developments has lodged plans to turn former The Left Bank bar, Lee Cabs and bakery building into nine new apartments. Meanwhile, the first works started earlier this year on 100 new homes in Blackpool. The two blocks - which go up to nine storeys high and deliver 114 new apartments - are at the site of the
former Millfield Service Station ot Redforge Road.