€18m housing development plan would create ‘ghost village’

AN €18 million development would transform a popular tourist retreat in west Cork into a wintertime ghost village, an objector warned.

The Green Party has lodged a formal objection to plans by developer David Dwyer to construct 56 houses in the heart of Ballydehob.

The party’s spokeswoman Jacqueline Hodgson described the proposed accommodation scheme as “executive-style” homes which would not fit in with local needs.