Dublin Airport Authority is re-landscaping a car park at Cork Airport for which An Bord Pleanála has ruled it had no planning permission.
The State company is taking legal action against three privately owned car parks at the airport on the grounds that they do not have proper planning.
Following complaints from the private operators, Cork County Council and An Bord Pleanála ruled that the company itself did not have proper planning permission for a site close to the Radisson Hotel at the airport that had been used as a car park.
The board’s ruling, produced following a site inspection in April, states that the relevant planning permission does not provide for a car park at the site. It also points out that the authorised use of the majority of the site is as a landscaped park.
The site was used as a car park while the airport’s new terminal was being built. That work was finished in 2006 but the area was not remodelled.
