Killarney land zoned for housing despite department objections

SUFFICIENT land for about 1,000 further houses in Killarney has been zoned by the local town council — despite strong reservations by the Department of the Environment and the National Roads Authority.

The department’s spatial strategy unit, insisting there was already an oversupply of residential-zoned land, has asked the council to reconsider the proposal, which represents a variation of the town development plan.

The council has, to date, zoned for residential development more than 95 acres in the Flesk valley, along the town’s southern extremity. The zoning decisions have hugely increased its commercial value.