{"id":579735,"date":"2026-08-02T03:28:17","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T03:28:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/579735\/"},"modified":"2026-08-02T03:28:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T03:28:17","slug":"work-on-cork-houses-left-vacant-for-two-decades-nearing-completion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/579735\/","title":{"rendered":"Work on Cork houses left vacant for two decades nearing completion"},"content":{"rendered":"

Three council-owned homes in Glanmire, that have been vacant for nearly 20 years, are nearly ready to be lived in for the first time.<\/p>\n

The three properties were built as part of a private development,\u00a0Copper Valley Heights<\/a>, and handed over to Cork County Council in the mid-2000s.\u00a0<\/p>\n

When Glanmire moved from Cork county to city in 2019 under the boundary extension, the homes should have been transferred over to Cork City Council.<\/p>\n

However, legal issues have kept them vacant, and the floors unfinished.<\/p>\n

\n The Echo first highlighted the issue in March, when there was confusion over which local authority was currently responsible for the homes.<\/p>\n

While legal issues preventing the title from being transferred to the city council were being worked on, a licence agreement was put in place so that remedial works could begin and the properties could be occupied.<\/p>\n

Earlier this week, a county council spokesperson confirmed that the legal issues had been sorted, saying: \u201cCork County Council approved the transfer of these properties to Cork City Council in June of this year.\u201d<\/p>\n

A spokesperson for city council has confirmed that the properties are nearly ready to be occupied, but stopped short of providing a deadline, saying that this will depend on when the houses are connected by ESB Networks.<\/p>\n

The spokesperson said: \u201cThese properties are nearing readiness for occupancy.<\/p>\n

\u201cRemedial works on the properties began at the start of May and are expected to complete by the end of August.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe completion timeframe will be dependent on the connection of the properties by ESB Networks.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three council-owned homes in Glanmire, that have been vacant for nearly 20 years, are nearly ready to be…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":579736,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[79,6037,63,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-579735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-cork-news","tag-cork-city-council","tag-cork-county-council","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=579735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579735\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/579736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=579735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=579735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=579735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}