Plans for 5,000-home development along Midleton rail route unveiled

A blueprint for future development in East Cork includes plans for more than 5,000 homes, four primary schools, two secondary schools, shopping centres, parks, cycleways, and a railway station.

Details of the county council plans for development along the Cork-Midleton rail corridor at Carrigtwohill and Water Rock, near Midleton, were revealed yesterday at a municipal district meeting by the local authority’s senior planner Andrew Hind.

He unveiled the two ‘master plans’, which focus on zoning 120 hectares of land north of the railway line at Carrigtwohill and a further 160 hectares at Water Rock, where the new railway station will be built.