Builders ‘trying to dodge social housing obligations’

CORK County Council officials are to prepare a report on the number of building projects which feature social and affordable houses, amid fears that developers are trying to dodge their obligations.

Under a 2003 act, developers building more than four homes must earmark 20% of them for social and affordable housing.

Cllr Tim Lombard, who raised the issue with council officials, was told that under the so-called Part V agreement to ‘set aside’ houses for the less well off, a number of developers had already come up trumps.