Councillors want to fast-track construction of Cork town in lieu of housing crisis

Cork County Councillors are to write to different agencies and Government departments to try to fast-track the building of a 5,000-home new town to alleviate the housing crisis.

The decision was made after a motion calling on the local authority to take over construction of the houses at Monard, near Blarney, rather than waiting for private developers to move in.

Council chief executive Tim Lucey said the local authority did not have the resources to do this alone.