An application has been submitted to An Bord Pleanála for the proposed Douglas Flood Relief Scheme.

Cork Council is seeking approval for the plans which includes flood relief works along and/or adjacent to and/or in the vicinity of the following watercourses:

• The Ballybrack Stream (Douglas River) over a combined length of approximately 620m from the Ballybrack Woods (Mangala) to immediately upstream of Church Street, Douglas.

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• The Grange Stream in Donnybrook over a length of approximately 480m.

• The Tramore River in Togher over a length of approximately 810m.

• The Tramore River at St. Patrick's Mills, Douglas over a length of approximately 80m.

The proposed works consists of flood defence walls and embankments, new culverts, replacement, widening and extension of existing culverts, channel widening, deepening, realignment and regrading, channel maintenance, bank stabilisation, removal of existing trash screens and construction of new trash screens, bridge removal, bridge replacement, road regrading, underground pumping stations, service diversions, relocation of two no. ESB substations/kiosks, tree felling, tree planting and landscaping, and all associated and ancillary works.

(CD/LM)