Waterfall residents urge council to re-examine name of new housing development

The SHD has already been renamed to Waterfall Heights/Ard an Easa, but residents of Waterfall village still have concerns it will cause 'inevitable and unnecessary confusion and disruption'

Fine Gael Councilor Garret Kelleher raised the issue at this month’s city council meeting and asked how the name of the new SHD was decided, pointing out that the name assigned to the new estate is the same as that of the nearby village on the outskirts of Cork City. Picture: Larry Cummins

Developers have had to rename a large housing development which is being built in Cork’s western suburbs after residents of a nearby village with the same name objected.

Site construction is underway on Ardstone Homes Ltd’s 276-unit strategic housing development (SHD) project on the Waterfall Road in Bishopstown, close to Waterfall village, on the western outskirts of Cork City.