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Plan to build 179 apartments on Bessborough grounds rejected An Bord Pleanála said it is 'not satisfied that the site was not previously used as, and does not contain, a children's burial ground' Wed, 26 May, 2021 - 08:07 Eoin English Developers have been refused permission to build apartments on the former Bessborough mother and baby home estate in Cork city amid concerns about the possible location of a children’s burial ground on the development site. An Bord Pleanála has today said it would be premature to grant planning to MWB Two for their 179-unit strategic housing development (SH...

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 pl...

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 Hous...