Plans for Cork homes refused over delay in public water treatment plant upgrade

The firm applied to Cork County Council in July 2023 for planning for 51 houses — 30 four-bed, 12 three-bed, and nine two-bed houses

O’Brien & O’Flynn criticised the chronic delays in upgrading the public waste water treatment plant in nearby Killumney, which now threatens its plans to build 110 homes on a site it owns in Ovens, which has been zoned for housing for almost 20 years. File picture

Plans for 110 new homes close to Cork City are at risk because of “deficiencies” in a public water treatment plant where upgrades have been required for almost 20 years.

The detail emerged after one of Cork’s largest house-building firms was refused planning for 51 homes in Ovens despite offering to build its own interim water treatment plant on the site.