Traffic-calming measures and footpath connectivity 'a must' for future Cork housing developments 

Councillors call for developers to be forced to install traffic-calming measures in new estates as a condition of planning permission

There was unanimous cross-party support among Cork councillors for traffic-calming measures and footpath connectivity to be enshrined in future in the county council's planning policy. File picture: Denis Minihane

Developers in Co Cork may have to incorporate traffic-calming measures in housing estates they build in future and ensure they have proper cycling and walking connectivity to town centres.

County councillors are insisting these measures be incorporated as conditions attached to granted planning permissions, as it is becoming too costly for the local authority to retrofit traffic calming and create footpath connectivity to town centres.