Fairgreen earmarked for student accommodation

Plans to provide accommodation for nearly 150 students at the Fairgreen have been lodged with Galway City Council.

The new owners of the site also plan to add five coach parking spaces to the private coach station – which serves GoBus and Citylink.

Telecoms millionaire Michael Maye, who is originally from Galway, has sought permission through his development vehicle Cwc Webworks Ltd (Connaught and Whitehall Capital) to develop the six-storey ‘void’ which currently exists alongside the private coach station.

The company is now planning to replace previously-approved apartments with a total of 46 units in a managed student accommodation complex.

Each unit will contain between one and six bed spaces, and there will be beds for a total of 147 students in five storeys above ground level.

For more on the plans, and the grant for a major student accommodation development in Bohermore, see this week’s Galway City Tribune