Another housing estate gets go-ahead despite infrastructural concerns

DESPITE concerns about inadequate roads, water and sewerage services in one of Kerry’s fastest developing villages, An Bord Pleanála has given the all-clear for another housing estate.

People living in Kilcummin, 5km from Killarney, argued there had been no improvement in infrastructure locally, even though of 130 new houses had been built there in two years.

An Bord Pleanála has granted planning permission to Matthew and Kay O’Connor for 21houses, two apartments, a shop unit and the relocation of a pub in Kilcummin, subject to 20 conditions.