A blueprint for future development in East Cork includes plans for more than 5,000 homes, four primary schools, two secondary schools, shopping centres, parks, cycleways, and a railway station.

Plans for the largest town ever to be built in Co Cork, which will be bigger than Glanmire and Carrigaline combined, are to be officially unveiled next week.

THE already visible benefits of the reopened Cork-Midleton railway suggest the strategy should be replicated to gets cars off the roads, reduce petrol imports and spread the benefits of employment and business.