TRAVELLER groups have warned that a programme to develop purpose-built housing will not solve accommodation needs, amid claims from one councillor it will create a “supersize” halting site in the city.

DAMAGE to buildings and equipment and dumping at Ellis’s Yard in recent months cost Cork City Council in excess of €9,500. The local authority spent €2,002 replacing damaged lighting at the Ballyvolane site following an attack in May.

A FIREFIGHTER was injured following a rock-throwing incident while attending a fire at Spring Lane last night.

CORK City Council’s proposals to build houses for Travellers on the recently cleaned-up Ellis’s Yard site have been met with strong objections. The council recently published a draft Traveller Accommodation Programme for 2019-2024.

EMERGENCY services were called to three separate fires around Spring Lane halting site today.

CORK City Council is examining CCTV footage to determine the culprits who dumped approximately 70 bags of rubbish at the entrance to Spring Lane halting site last night.

Overcrowding in halting sites in Cork and across Ireland are a serious fire hazard and need to be addressed, a Cork TD has said.

THE families living at Spring Lane halting site in Ballyvolane are angry that they have not received more information about plans to accommodate them.

THE controversial Spring Lane halting site in Ballyvolane is to be closed by 2020, under new targets for the site. Plans are underway to provide alternative accommodation to the almost 150 residents living on the site.