Plans by an Irish arm of Amazon Web Services for a cable-landing station in west Cork as part of a transatlantic subsea fibre-optic cable project have been stalled.
West Cork couple Eileen Lynch and Owen McCarthy lodged an appeal with An Coimisiún Pleanála against the grant of planning permission to Amazon MCS Ireland Ltd for the cable-landing station.
Last month, Cork County Council gave the proposal the go-ahead for a site at Tullyneasky West, 5km southwest of Clonakilty, after deciding that the proposed development would not seriously affect the amenities of the area.
The proposal comprises the demolition of two existing buildings and the construction of a cable-landing station building, an ESB substation and switchroom building and all external plant consisting of a condenser compound, generators and fuel tanks.
The fibre-optic cable is to land in Ireland at Owenahincha, west Cork. It is part of the multimillion-euro “Fastnet” transatlantic underwater fibre-optic cable connecting Ireland and the US. Amazon Web Services is aiming to have it operating by 2028.
