CLIFF RICHARD was ordered to knock down his £30,000 (€35,000) conservatory after his council decided it was too big and built without permission on a Green Belt site.

Cliff Richard has been ordered to knock down his £30,000 (€35,000) conservatory after his council decided it was too big and built without permission on a Green Belt site.

Richard Collins on how a Cold War crisis produced a wildlife miracle.

LEEMOUNT COTTAGE has been a landmark at Leemount Cross west of Cork city for years.

A ROHFAB bungalow at Ballyorban, Monkstown is already under offer at €470,000 and that bid is probably based on site value only.

ANYONE buying in the million euro category in the Greater Cork area should give Foxwood House in Waterfall a viewing.

THE Bishopstown suburb of Cork city is circumscribed by the Green Belt, which means expansion has been hugely curtailed, which means supply is limited: which means strong prices all round.

A FARM in Kerry Pike, Co Cork, should stir quite a bit of property development interest as - despite its Green Belt zoning - it’s just five minutes from Ballincollig, and 10 minutes from Cork city.

‘CARMEL’ comes with an enviable location in Cork’s Green Belt - not to mention on the banks of the Lovely Lee.

EVEN with the towering Section 50 student blocks of Eden Hall just up the road, The Orchards in Inchigaggin Lane, Co Cork is a quiet little backwater on the rim of the city.

NICE bungalow - shame it’s an endangered species. Wilton Park Lodge has a luxurious, one third of an acre site off the main Wilton Road, in Cork city, and its sale will definitely draw in the developers.

British Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott has called for a “step change” in the rate of home building to meet demand and rein in house price inflation.

A THREE-BEDROOMED, timber-framed house is on the market in the Green Belt area of Co Cork, at Berrings South.