Over half a million euro in dereliction levies collected by Cork City Council in the past three months
The council is in the process of adding 51 new sites to the derelict sites register.
€535,577 in dereliction levies was collected by Cork City Council in the past three months, bringing the total collected in 2021 to just over €1 million.
Cork City Council opened just five new files on derelict sites in the past three months, and added only one new site to the derelict sites register.
The information was released in the quarterly Chief Executive’s report today.
Ann Doherty, Chief Executive of Cork City Council, did not go into detail on the updated figures. However the council has made significant headway in collecting dereliction levies throughout 2021.
No levies were collected in the first quarter, and only €51,800 for the three months up until the end of May.
But as Tripe + Drisheen reported this past September, the council collected over €475,000 in levies on derelict sites from June to September, and increased upon that figure for the final quarter of 2021.
Properties on Cork City Council’s derelict sites register (you can see the map here) have a levy applied to them once per year in a bid to prevent a pattern of neglect and disuse.
51 new sites are in the process of being added to the register; there are currently 93 properties listed, despite some anti-dereliction campaigners saying the official register is nowhere near reflective of the true scale of the dereliction problem Cork city faces.
CE hails docklands development
Speaking about the recent planning permission announcement by O’Callaghan Properties to develop the city’s South Docks (by Kennedy Quay), Ann Doherty said the €350m project, which includes a private hospital, multiple glass-fronted apartment blocks, a food hall and a cinema, was recognition that Cork city is still “attractive for private sector investment.”
Don’t park here
St Patrick's Street, where a partial driving ban is in force, continues to be city’s most-ticketed street for parking offences, the Chief Executive also reported.
A total of 29,796 parking fines were issued from November 2020 to the end of October 2021, an increase of nearly 1,500 from the previous year.
2,700 tickets, 9% of the total, were issued on the city centre thoroughfare.
South Mall took second place with 1,301 tickets, or 4.5%, while Connaught Avenue and Donovan’s Road came third with 1,021 tickets, 3.4% of the total, issued. Failure to display a valid disc continues to be the dominant reason for issuing tickets.
There were 1,389 tickets issued for parking violations related to parking on a footpath.
