New council houses for Laois village
Laois Co Council chief executive Michael Rainey with officials and councillors Ben Brennan, Pádraig Fleming and Aisling Moran at the new housing scheme in Doonane
WORK has just begun on new social houses and serviced sites in a Laois village.
The sod was turned this week at Grove Terrace in Doonane, which will contain 12 homes and two serviced sites for people on the housing waiting list.
Laois County Council said today that the new development ‘will play a vital part in enhancing and sustaining’ the village community of Doonane near Crettyard, close to the Kilkenny and Carlow borders.
Grove Terrace will provide eight three-bedroom homes and four two-bedroom units and will be delivered by the county council, working in partnership with Kevin Thorpe Ltd and Kenneth Hennessy Architects.
The homes are being constructed under the national Housing For All scheme, a key part of the council's programme for the delivery of social homes in the county over the five-year period from 2022 to 2026.
Laois County Council will own and manage the scheme, with tenants nominated from the housing waiting list. Funding for the development came from the national Social Housing Investment Programme (SHIP).
SHIP funding is capital support provided to local authorities under the Housing For All programme, facilitating the funding of construction, acquisition or refurbishment of new social housing units by the Department of Housing, Heritage and Local Government. One of the main objectives of Housing For All is ‘the creation of sustainable communities’.
