Lack of bus stop and gardens cited for house refusal

IT MIGHT be worth up to €400,000 and have all the modern conveniences but because a bus doesn’t stop outside the door, this property has been turned down by a local authority housing applicant.

Details emerged last night of how at least one of the 27 applicants who refused offers of a home in the Elderwood estate off Cork’s Boreenmanna Road cited the lack of a bus route as the main reason for their refusal. Others cited the absence of both a front and back garden.

The new development of two and three-bedroom duplexes, and four-bedroom terraced homes, was built over the last two years by Paul Montgomery and Supply Ltd.