35-unit housing plan for Cork industrial estate

A 35-unit housing development is to be built in an industrial estate on Cork’s southside after councillors approved a material contravention of the city development plan — at the second time of asking.

Two votes were required to approve the development earmarked for the former Hormann Electronics site in the Mahon Industrial Estate in Blackrock.

The first vote, taken during Monday’s meeting of Cork City Council, was later deemed invalid over a technicality.