Conditional permission granted for expansion at Cork hotel 

Cork Airport Hotel has been granted conditional permission for additional bedrooms by Cork City Council, which would bring its total rooms to over 100.

The hotel at Cork Airport, Lehenaghmore, Cork, had applied for permission for the construction of a permanent single-storey detached building comprising 20 hotel bedrooms to the rear of the existing hotel building.

Cork Airport Hotel is an 81-bedroom hotel spread over three floors with a building footprint of just over 3,300sq m, and the proposed development consists of the construction of a new single-storey detached building to the rear of the existing Cork Airport Hotel.

The proposed works will also include the provision of external access steps and ramps connecting the new building to the existing hotel, as well as other associated site works.

The hotel is currently used for temporary residential accommodation for people fleeing the war in Ukraine and is currently fully occupied, housing 203 people across the 81 bedrooms.

In the planning application, Cg Hotels Cork Airport Ltd stated: “Initially, the proposed new building will also be used to provide such temporary residential accommodation.

“It will subsequently be used as hotel bedrooms as soon as the Cork Airport Hotel reverts to the established use as hotel accommodation.”