Cork County Council’s dream of new town ‘still alive’

Cork County Council officials have disclosed they are still intent on developing a 5,000-house town at Monard near Blarney.

The plan suffered a setback in September 2013 after Bord Pleanála ruled it was premature in the current economic climate and, furthermore, the National Roads Authority had not decided on whether it would construct a new northern ring road which would connect to Monard.

Council planners had expended a massive number of hours designing a town after the previous government declared Monard a Strategic Development Zone (SDZ) in 2010.