Housing policy warning over future of towns in Cork

Cork County Council officials have been told they must change their housing policy or they will kill off communities in north-west Cork, an area known as Western Duhallow.

A plea from elected representatives has also gone out to private landlords not to evict families at Christmas.

Cllr Gerard Murphy yesterday told a meeting of the council’s Northern Division the local authority had no plans to build houses for Newmarket, Millstreet or villages in Western Duhallow in the foreseeable future and, as a result, people were relocating out of the region.