€200m urban revamp delivers first new homes

Home sweet home — families have begun moving in to the first new houses built as part of one of the State’s largest urban regeneration projects.

Neighbours Fiona Neville and Sarah Murphy got the keys to their homes yesterday, which were among the first of 10 built under phase one of the €200m Cork North West Quarter Regeneration Plan in Knocknaheeny.

“It’s just bliss. It’s like a new start,” said mum-of-two, Fiona. She lived for 18 years in a 1970s-built council house on nearby Carbery Rd — one of hundreds of sub-standard council homes earmarked for demolition under the scheme.