Residents put block on student housing

Just right for the family: The bungalow on Uam Var estate, Cork, is expected to promote keen interest with offer price of €274,000.

The 300-bed student apartments, to be built on a site close to the Uam Var estate, has run up against opposition from the local community on the grounds of its unsuitability in a mature, residential area.

Curraheen, and Uam Var in particular, happens to be on the fringes of the CIT campus, where O'Flynn Construction intend to build five blocks of three-storey student apartments.