First Cork docklands affordable homes set for 2026 as State ramps up housing plans

New cost-rental and affordable homes in Cork’s Docklands signal long-awaited progress in Ireland’s largest urban regeneration zone

The Marina Depot site in the south docks where the LDA is working with Glenveagh Properties to deliver 337 new homes, including 260 cost rentals and 77 social apartments on the former home of the Live at the Marquee concert series. Picture: Larry Cummins

After decades of talk, strategies and vision documents, the first of hundreds of new affordable homes in Ireland’s largest urban regeneration site will be ready by the end of next year.

The completion date for the first Cork docklands apartments emerged on Friday as Taoiseach Micheál Martin and Housing Minister James Browne visited two dockland sites where 600 homes are being built with support from the Land Development Agency (LDA).