Kilkenny County Council’s revised housing targets for the next decade will strive to take the interest of both urban and rural areas into account.
So local councillors have been assured after new government guidelines expect close to 1,000 new homes to be built each year in Kilkenny.
However, Cllr Pat Dunphy told KCLR News that the backlog Uisce Éireann continues to deal with in the south of the county doesn’t bode well for the major pipe-laying challenge that lies ahead of them; “As it is now, we have leaks all over Mooncoin on an ongoing basis and around the county, and they’re not able to cope with that so how are they going to cope with sewage schemes and water schemes all over the country because there are going to be a lot of applications, like, the focus is definitely on the cities and towns and it’s needed, there’s no question about it, but we should not be forgetting rural areas”.
