*Photograph: John Mangan SENIOR OFFICIALS in Clare County Council refused to be drawn on who carried out the demolition works on Francis Street for the county’s first affordable housing scheme.
*Photograph: Martin Connolly DELIVERY of 30 social houses in Ennistymon has been put on hold.
*Leonard Cleary, Noeleen Fitzgerald, Pat Dowling, Anne Haugh, Carmel Kirby and Jason Murphy. SUBSTANTIAL changes to the management of Clare County Council are to be made as part of a vast reshuffle.
*Seamus & Mary Hanley show the extent of the pyrite damage to their home. Photograph: Joe Buckley CLARE should not be waiting on a pilot scheme to be completed in another county before its social housing stock has access to a defective concrete block scheme, a Shannon representative has said.
*An artist’s impression of the scheme. AN APPLICATION is set to be made to An Bord Pleanála for the development of a 20 unit housing development on the Gort Rd in Ennis.
EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST for affordable housing schemes in Ennis and Shannon will be taken until Friday.
*Mary Hanley points to the damage caused by pyrite to her home in Drumline to Minister for Housing, Darragh O’Brien. Photograph: Joe Buckley AN ENHANCED grant scheme for defective concrete blocks is to open to affected homeowners in the first quarter of next year.
RESIDENTS in Roslevan and on the Limerick Rd in Ennis have been ‘unfairly treated’ through the absence of playground facilities despite the payment of “development levies” while one clear solution to the issue has been flagged.
“Major infrastructural deficits” will prevent future housing projects in Newmarket-on-Fergus, a Clare developer who has a housing development before An Bord Pleanála has warned.
