Floods sink council’s master plan for thousands of homes in county Cork

Plans will have to be revisited for thousands of proposed new homes in Co Cork after it emerged that areas designated for future development were flooded during the winter storms.

The latest setback for council planners came after a county councillor said a large section of land earmarked for 4,000 homes in Ballincollig had been submerged after a deluge on December 30. The report added to fears about the future of two other council master plans for major housing programmes at Carrigtwohill and at Water Rock near Midleton.

At a meeting of the Glanmire/Cobh municipal district, councillors urged planners to go back to the drawing board on the two East Cork plans in particular, after both sites were submerged.