Kerry councillors have ‘daunting task ahead’

KERRY has about 7,000 acres with a residential zoning and councillors, who so freely zoned land during the years of the construction boom, are now faced with the daunting task of “dezoning”.

With the building industry having ground to a halt and thousands of houses around Kerry that can’t be sold, senior council management is putting proposals before councillors to dezone a substantial proportion of this land.

According to Department of Environment statistics, Kerry councillors zoned enough land for 61,269 housing units – about six times more than what was needed for the population.