Warning over rural Cork’s viability

Lack of infrastructural investment is impacting on the “vitality and viability” of rural communities in Co Cork, a senior planning official has warned.

County Hall’s Michael Lynch said rural communities had suffered from a lack of “multi-annual, infrastructural and community investment commitments” from successive governments.

Mr Lynch’s comments were in a report provided to county councillors, who had claimed rural areas were dying because young people were being refused planning permission within their own communities.