Council to alter two-month-old blueprint for rural housing

MEMBERS of Limerick County Council will today try and alter a blueprint for housing in rural areas, which they adopted just two months ago.

An amendment to the new County Development Plan, which has just come into effect, would have major repercussions for people seeking planning for housing in a designated “Pressure Zone” circling Limerick City, where planning is more difficult to obtain.

The new County Development Plan extended the Pressure Zone and the council management are firmly opposed to a proposal to reduce the “pressure zone” back to where it was prior to the new plan being adopted.