Cork City Council to unveil plans for hundreds of new homes at site on city's northside

The development will have a mix of social, affordable and private housing on the 22-hectare landbank near Blackpool over the next five years

The spine road built on the Old Mallow Road landbank near Blackpool, Cork, as part of the multi-million infrastructural package to service the site for up to 500 homes. File picture

Long-awaited plans to deliver around 500 new homes on a vast public-owned greenfield site on the northside of Cork City are set to be unveiled next week.

City councillors were briefed this week on the timeline and strategy for the delivery of a mix of social, affordable and private housing on the site near Blackpool that will create a vast new residential community on the 22-hectare landbank over the next five years.