Bandon scheme off to successful start

THERE'S been a swift and predominantly local uptake for the launch of almost 90 new homes in Bandon, West Cork.

Forty-one of the 89 homes to be built at Forestbrook Developments' scheme Thornfields were launched last weekend, and half have been already booked, with sons and daughters of local families to the fore, say Suzanne Tyrrell and Jackie Cohalan of Cohalan Downing auctioneers.

New house building in this prosperous town was stalled, or kept to a low level, since the mid-1990s, as tax incentive designation saw first Clonakilty, and then Skibbereen, tap into the housing boom.