‘Crumbs from the table’ for county

An internal report carried out by Cork County Council paints a “devastating” blow to the local authority’s future growth and investment if the National Planning Framework (NPF) is implemented.

Council officials said the NPF’s guidelines would likely mean they would be starved of investment in the coming years as major population increases are earmarked for Cork City and its suburbs.

Their analysis suggests that under the NPF, the population increase of the soon-to-be-reduced county council area will fall to 0.5% per annum between now and 2040, compared to 1.2% from 2006 to 2016.