Brookhill estate on the Ballea Road consists of 69 A-rated turn-key homes.
The project was undertaken by Co-operative Housing Ireland who say they are on track to deliver over 400 homes this year despite the problems caused by the pandemic.
CHI says there are over 70,000 households on the housing waiting list and 8,737 people living in emergency accommodation according to figures from October.
CHI CEO Kieron Brennan said
“Brookhill was made possible through CHI’s partnership with Cork County Council, the Housing Finance Agency, the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and Homeland Group to provided much needed, high-quality A-rated, homes. This is a turnkey estate meaning that we engaged with a developer, agreed a fix price and stuck to it. As well as direct builds, turnkey homes are essential to addressing the housing crisis, they allow for the risks associated with building to be pushed back onto the developer, for a greater housing tenure mix, for social housing to be built on private land, and for accelerated house building.”
