Housing

Housing charity criticised for plan to cut communal areas in Balgriffin apartment blocks

The approved housing body is proposing to buy 400 homes but wants to remove residents’ gyms and co-working spaces

Cairn is in talked to sell more than 400 of the 730 apartments planned across five blocks at the Parkside project in Balgriffin

Politicians have criticised plans to cut 90 per cent of amenity space in two social and affordable housing apartment blocks in Dublin.

Cairn Homes is in talks to bulk sell more than 400 homes to an unnamed approved housing body (AHB) in the largest deal of its kind ever completed by such a body in Ireland.

The homebuilder is at an advanced stage of negotiations to sell a number of blocks at its Parkside 5B ...