Anger at plans to build in ghost estate

PLANNERS have cleared the way for further housing on an estate where residents have lived for three years with unfinished roads, incomplete public lighting and inadequately secured construction sites.

The decision by Athy Town Council to allow further development at Gallow Hill estate in Athy has angered residents who claim the developer, JDL Construction, has left the site in a “dangerous and unfinished state”.

In one of 27 objections to the developer’s proposal to build eight additional homes at Gallow Hill, one resident said: “Approval of this application is tantamount to endorsing the dangerous and reckless abandonment of site works.”