Plans to revamp protected buildings in Cork city centre unveiled
The former Catholic Young Men's Society building, as seen in 1972.
Plans to revamp a series of protected buildings in the centre of Cork City have been unveiled.
Holren Properties Limited has applied to Cork City Council for permission for works at 9A, 10, 11, 12 and 13 Castle Street, and 1 to 7 Paradise Place.
The works are focused on the former Catholic Young Men's Society building on South Main Street.
The proposal includes the refurbishment of two buildings.
It involves the change of use of a ground-floor retail shop to a betting shop, the demolition of the internal walls between 10, 11, 12, and 13 Castle Street, the addition of new projecting and fascia signage, and the removal of old ones.
The change of use of the first and second floors of all the buildings is proposed too, moving from storage to residential use, with six one-bed apartments proposed for construction too.
Elsewhere, a developer is seeking to develop a series of residential units on Washington Street.
Chimera Ltd has applied for permission to convert the vacant first, second, and third floors of numbers 38 and 39 Washington Street from former restaurant and office use to residential.
If approved, it would see five residential units — four one-bed apartments and one two-bed apartment — developed in the two buildings, which are also protected structures.
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