Inadequate road network may hinder housing development

Councillors are warning that a proposed multi-million euro housing development cannot proceed in an already traffic-congested town without an advance major upgrade of a seriously inadequate road infrastructure.

The huge project at Ballinglanna, Glanmire, Co Cork, will bypass the local authority planners and will be determined by An Bord Pleanála as the application has been lodged by the promoters as a Strategic Housing Development.

As some councillors warned the project could completely paralyse traffic movements in the town which is 8km from Cork city, An Bord Pleanála has asked Cork County Council officials and elected members for their views on the O’Flynn Construction plans.