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Wed 05 May 2007€4bn Cork Docklands scheme takes shapePlanning & DevelopmentPlans for a new quarter on 400 acres in Cork's Docklands are gathering pace with some developers expecting to be on-site next year, writes Michelle McDonaghWith a resident population of 20,000 - as well as 650,321sq m (7 million sq ft) of non-residential development and the provision of up to 25,000 jobs - the new Cork Docklands will be, as city manager Joe Gavin puts it, the size of "a sizeable Irish town".