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Fri, 23 Apr, 2021 - 10:29 People will talk about what the board did here for years to come : Survivors call for Bessborough plans to be rejected
Computer-generated image of the proposed residential developments, including the Strategic Housing Development Gateway View, which have been earmarked for a parcel of land on the former Bessborough estate in Cork.
Amy Nolan
SURVIVORS have implored An Bord Pleanála to reject plans seeking to develop apartments and a creche on a former mother and baby home estate in Cork.
In November last year, MWB Two Ltd lodged a planning application with the planning board for 179-apartments in three blocks, as well as a creche, on privately owned land on the former Bessborough estate.
Developers have proposed that no development should take place over any children s burial ground with human remains in situ at the former Mother and Baby Home at Bessborough, Co Cork, where it is planned that 179 apartments be built.
The barrister for developer MWB Two Ltd made the proposal, one of a number conditions suggested in a submission to the oral hearing by An Bord Pleanála, which reconvened today.
David Holland SC for the developer circulated two documents at the hearing. These included a memo with their proposals for planning conditions and a document on an aerial photograph.
Mr Holland outlined these changes. He said they wanted to provide some form of memorialisation but said that they did not want to impose their view.
Social Affairs & Religion Correspondent
An expert in ordnance survey mapping has told the oral hearing into a planning application for 179 apartments in the grounds of a former mother-and-baby home at Bessborough in Cork he believes an area marked as a children s burial ground on a 1950s ordinance survey map is correct.
John Clarkin, who has worked for Ordinance Survey Ireland for over 40 years, was brought before the oral hearing by David Dodd BL - who is representing the Cork Survivors and Supporters Alliance.
Developer MWB Two Ltd has applied to An Bord Pleanála under the Strategic Housing Initiative for permission to build 179 apartments on a 3.7 acre site on the grounds of Bessborough.
We don t build apartments on burial grounds : Hearing into controversial Bessborough housing plan continues
The Cork Survivors and Supporters Alliance is making an oral submission to An Bord Pleanála today. By Órla Ryan Thursday 22 Apr 2021, 10:51 AM 1 hour ago 2,707 Views 10 Comments
The graveyard at the Bessborough Centre in Blackrock in Cork, formerly Bessborough Mother and Baby Home (file photo).
Image: Laura Hutton/Photocall Ireland
The graveyard at the Bessborough Centre in Blackrock in Cork, formerly Bessborough Mother and Baby Home (file photo).
Image: Laura Hutton/Photocall Ireland
SURVIVORS HAVE CALLED for planning permission to be rejected for a controversial housing development on the site of a former mother and baby institution in Bessborough in Cork city.