10,000 homes needed in Cork to prevent crisis

Up to 10,000 homes need to be built in Co Cork in the next five years to stave off a likely housing crisis.

The county’s mayor, John Paul O’Shea, has appealed to the Government to invest in badly needed infrastructure in Cork after council planning staff outlined the need for thousands of new homes by 2020 to cater for projected population growth.

He said a Dublin Housing Supply Task Force had demonstrated the urgent need for new housing in the capital but insisted a similar demand also applied in Cork.