By Chris Ashmore
A NUMBER of sites in the Letterkenny-Milford Municipal District Council area have been identified as being potentially suitable for the provision of temporary modular accommodation for current social housing tenants who will have to move out while their defective concrete blocks affected homes are being remediated.
Confirmation of this emerged this week following a motion to the April meeting from Cllr Gerry McMonagle.
Regarding what he described as being the “imminent publishing of the Defective Block Legislation for the Remediation of Social Housing” he said that the council needs to be ready to start the remedial process with 80 social houses.
Speaking at Tuesday’s meeting, he also questioned where people will go once the process starts.
“It would be prudent of us to have the sites identified and to have them ready,” he contended, and added: “We need these as a matter of urgency, we need to be a step ahead.”
Cllr Tómas Seán Devine, who seconded the motion, felt that the council might indeed 2,000 homes to cater for those who will have to move out of their own houses.
Seamus Canning, Area Manager, was asked to bring back further information to councillors and this will be relayed to them at a planned housing capital workshop that has been earmarked for next month.