By Richard O'Reilly
210 new homes are to be built in Derry-Londonderry, following a meeting Derry City and Strabane District Council’s Planning Committee.
78 of the new house will be sited at the old Imaccuclate Conception College, with 47 at Ferndale Park and a further 85 at Tullyally Road
The houses at the Immaculate Conception site will be accessed using the existing access off Trench Road with a new access off Corrody Road with associated landscaping, boundary treatments and site works comprising the buildings and curtilage, Trench Road. Itwill include the demolition of two large school buildings.
The Tullyalley development will consist of a mixture of two-storey detached and semi-detached dwellings and townhouses, with open space and access road at lands at Tullyally Road, Drumahoe.
Menawhile at Ferndale Park, the new residential units comprise of 8 duplex apartments, 12 two-storey duplex units, 14 two- storey semis, six storey and a half semis and nine three-storey semis with associated landscaping, open space, parking and new road at lands west of Ferndale Park and south of Skeoge Link Road, Lower Galliagh.
Chairman of the Planning Committee, Cllr John Boyle said he was "delighted the Council had approved the applications" to provide new housing.
He said the provision of new housing is a "key element of the Council’s commitment in its developing Community Plan/Inclusive Growth Plan."
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