€100m scheme to target affordable housing list

A LOCAL authority was praised yesterday for brokering a multi-million euro deal to construct one of the country’s largest ever affordable housing schemes.

Minister for Housing and Urban Renewal, Noel Ahern, turned the sod on the €100 million development in Shanakiel, Cork.

A total of 347 housing units will be built on the site under a three-way partnership between Cork City Council, Coleman Brothers and Fleming Construction.