Plan to turn Cork City bookshop into pub with sky-bridge approved
Cork City Council has granted permission to Mutual Enterprises to redevelop the former Uneeda Bookshop in a plan that will see it linked to the nearby BarBarossa and Bróg complex. Picture: Eddie O'Hare
A planning application to transform a former Cork City bookshop into a bar has been approved.
Cork City Council has granted permission to Mutual Enterprises to redevelop the former Uneeda Bookshop in a plan that will see it linked to the nearby BarBarossa and Bróg complex.
The permission allows the change of use of the bookshop into a licensed premises and will see the ground-floor unit converted into a bar with an office and store on the first floor with a sky-bridge structure on the second floor crossing Market Avenue to link into the existing complex that also includes the Voodoo Rooms nightclub.
A familiar face to generations of book and music lovers, John Coffey, then aged 88, closed the second-hand book and vinyl store in 2020.
It had traded for more than 30 years at various city centre locations.
Elsewhere in Cork, a developer is seeking permission to build 16 new apartments in Grange outside the city.
Authentic Homes Ltd has lodged an application for works at the former Grange Stores Site.
If approved, it would see an existing single-storey detached building, formerly part off-licence and part dwelling, demolished.
In its place, a four-storey residential building including some 16 apartments would be built.
Meanwhile, planning has also been granted for the construction of a new, 10-storey office building in Little Island.
Esprit Investments Ltd has been granted permission by Cork County Council for the works at the Euro Business Park.
It includes the construction of 20,150 sq m of office space in a building which will range in height from three to 10 storeys.
Parking and a publicly accessible food court on the ground floor are also included in the works.
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