New 'major urban' Cork neighbourhood plans underway

Work has been underway for some time to unlock the site’s development potential through the Government’s local infrastructure housing activation fund process
New 'major urban' Cork neighbourhood plans underway

A 160-hectare site located east of Cork City has been identified for the new neighbourhood. Picture: Gareth Chaney/Collins Photos

A major infrastructural project to help pave the way for a vast new 2,500-home urban neighbourhood in Cork is set to get underway.

The contract signed on Wednesday between Cork County Council, BAM Ireland, and Atkins, will see the construction of access roads and drainage to prime for development a strategic landbank at Water Rock near Midleton, some 20km east of Cork City.

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