Council plans for ‘super-halting site’ rejected

CITY officials have been forced back to the drawing board after their plans to expand a Traveller halting site on Cork’s northside were shot down.

City councillors voted overwhelmingly against the extension of the council’s official Travelling halting site at Spring Lane on Monday after a raft of local opposition. The official site has 10 bays where conditions have been described as “horrendous”.

A report to council last September revealed that “an unauthorised subsidiary site” had grown around its perimeter with about 23 families, mostly relatives of existing tenants, living on land around the official site.