Cork Council may provide more accessible housing for people with disabilities

Developers could be required to include a portion of accessible houses in any new developments

Cork County Council is considering more accessible homes for people with disabilities.

Cork County Council is to look at providing more universally-accessible homes for people with disabilities and to cope with an increasingly elderly population in the years ahead.

This could include a proviso that private developers selling housing units to the council, known as 'turnkey' properties, ensure a certain percentage of them are specifically designed to accommodate such people.