The rush is on for a first-time buy in Cobh

Martello Rushbrooke. Fifteen homes in the scheme are being released on September 5 next.

A HOUSING development extremely popular with first-time buyers (FTBs) is to add another 21 houses to the scheme following the re-zoning of land originally set aside for educational use.

When Cork County Councillors voted early in the summer to materially contravene the development plan to facilitate more home-building at Martello Rushbrooke, near Cobh, it cleared the way for Caraden Homes, run by the Waterfall-based Blower family, to develop the final portion of the site it already owned.