SIX €217,000 houses for travellers in Blackrock, Co Dublin will be ready for allocation in July.
The small estate on former Church lands at Temple Hill will cost more than €1.3m. The six houses are being developed by Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council.
The single story residences will each include a fully-fitted kitchen, living room, three bedrooms, a bathroom and a front and back garden. It is hoped that the accommodation will be ready for six families from the travelling community by this July.
Members of the county council who are in charge of the development have also said that it will provide a Maintenance Manager for the dwellings who will visit the site on a regular basis to maintain the green area.
Maire Hickey, Council administration officer says that, despite the fact the residences are in a prominent area of Dublin, they are not more expensive for the council to build than if they were in any other area of the capital.
"I suppose they are worth a lot more than other units we have built because they are in the middle of Blackrock, so there would be a very high value on them in that respect. But for us to build the houses in that particular area wouldn't cost us any more than if we had built them anywhere else."
The land was given to the council by the Daughters of Charity who have a convent close to the site in Blackrock.
Sunday Independent
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