The Irish Times

A planning application is expected to be lodged shortly with Cork City Council for a €700 million development on the controversial Horgan's Quay site in the north docklands. Dublin building firm Manor Park Homebuilders yesterday revealed it intended to seek planning permission for 276 residential units in seven blocks, one of which would be 20 to 24 storeys high. This would be the highest building in Cork. The development will be on about five acres of a 14-acre site owned by Iarnród Éireann which last April said it had signed a development agreement with Manor Park Homebuilders for a €700 million commercial mixed use development. The Horgan's Quay site adjacent to Kent railway station was the subject of controversy in 1995 when then minister for transport Michael Lowry refused to sanction CIÉ's decision to sell three acres to Cork developer Owen O'Callaghan at a price of £200,000 an acre.