GrantedChange of useDecided 29 July 2024

64-65 College Road, Cork

Conversion and extension of a former bank into a medical clinic with seven consulting rooms.

2442873 · Cork City Council · Lodged 19 April 2024

Reference: 2442873
Authority: Cork City Council
Register status: Decided
Type: PERMISSION
Received: 19 April 2024

Summary

AI-generated

The project involves changing the use of a former bank premises to a medical clinic. It includes internal reordering for seven consulting rooms, a first-floor rear extension, solar panels, and increasing the car parking spaces from 8 to 13.

Change of usemedicalclinicextensionsolar

Floor area: 68 m²

Generated from the description above by an AI model and may contain mistakes. The council’s description is the authoritative record.

Official record

Development description

Permission for the change of use, construction of extensions and development of a former bank premises at 64-65 college road, cork, t12xd34, on a site of 0.0902ha to a medical clinic (class 8), which includes the reordering of the internal layout to facilitate the provision of 7 medical consulting rooms, associated waiting areas, offices, bathroom facilities, storage areas, installation of a lift and stair, removal of side entrance door and window on east elevation, upgrade of all existing windows, installation of 3 no. Additional windows to the ground floor rear elevation, enlargement of existing ground floor rear elevation window openings and installation of new windows, redesign of the front entrance to include an extended glazed lobby area (4.91sqm); a first floor extension to the rear (68.04sqm); installation of solar panels and roof access ladder on the rear roof; installation of an internally illuminated sign (1.80m x 0.40m) to front elevation; demolition of existing arched gate to rear car park and installation of new gate and 6.50 sq. M secured storage area for refuse bins and heat pump units, increase in car parking spaces from 8 to 13 in total including 1 no. Wheelchair accessible parking space, provision of 1 no. Motorcycle space, 5 no. Ev charging points on the ground floor rear elevation; provision of 5 no. Bicycle stands and planter to front forecourt; together with landscaping, external lighting and all associated site works. The property is within the college road architectural conservation area.

Land-use zoning

What this land is zoned for

Neighbourhood and Local CentresDC

“To protect, provide for or improve local facilities.”

National zoning type: District, neighbourhood centre

Objective set by the Cork City Development Plan 2022-2028 (2022–2028). The planning authority decides each application on its own merits — this is the zoning context, not a compliance assessment.

Read the zoning objectives in the development plan

Built & sold

What happened next

Beyond the decision: whether this development was built, and what property here has sold for.

Built — construction complete

A commencement notice records works starting on 15 October 2024.

Notified floor area: 480.99 m²

Recent sales nearby

within 500 m

Residential Property Price Register sales within 500 metres of this site
Address	Date	Price	Distance
2 Aldergrove, Highfield West, College Rd	Jul 2025	€470,000	80 m
6 Fernhurst Villas, College Rd, Cork	Jul 2025	€365,000	92 m
Rock House, 3 Adare Villas, Highfield Avenue	Apr 2026	€515,000	130 m
11 Aldergrove, Highfield West, Cork	Apr 2026	€262,500	135 m
15 Aldergrove, Highfield West, College Road	Mar 2026	€485,000	157 m
Ellesmere, College Rd, Cork	Jun 2025	€960,000	158 m
7 Mount St Joseph View, Magazine Road, Cork	Mar 2025	€375,000	161 m
1 Carrigside, College Rd, Cork	May 2025	€600,000	177 m

Nearby properties, not this site — a guide to local values.

Sources: Building Control Management System (commencement notices) and the Residential Property Price Register, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Records are matched to this application by location and may not be exhaustive; always confirm against the official source before relying on them.

Key dates

Timeline

Application received19 April 2024
Decision due30 July 2024
Decision issued29 July 2024
Grant issued9 September 2024

In the area

Applications near this site

Other planning applications within about 500 m — what else is being proposed or built nearby.

Related developments

Similar applications

Ranked by what these developments actually propose, not by matching words — so you can see how comparable applications were decided.

Community

Discussion

What local people think about this application.

Nobody watching yet

Community sentiment

No votes yet

Nobody has voted on this application yet.

Community sentiment — a straw poll of people who visited this page, not a statutory submission. To make a valid observation you must submit it to the planning authority.

No comments yet. Be the first to say what you think about this application.

Comments are moderated and are the opinions of the people who wrote them. They form no part of the statutory planning process — to make a valid observation you must submit it to the planning authority.