Residents in unfinished housing estates are demanding action against companies and their directors and for Wexford County Council to end its ‘softly, softly’ approach towards developers and strongest pressure is coming from North Wexford.

Cllr. Malcolm Byrne tabled a notice of motion at a meeting of Wexford County Council to recognise the significant number of unfinished estates in Co. Wexford and the difficulties that have been faced for a number of years by the residents in these estates.

Cllr. Byrne feels the Council should demand outstanding development levies, utilise such payments to complete works left unfinished by the same developers, cease the ‘softly, softly’ approach towards developers who fail to co-operate with the Council in the completion of estates and to publish the names of the companies and their directors against whom the Council is forced to take court action.

There is growing anger at the developers who have effectively abandoned residents and the fact that Wexford County Council has been slow to take action against them.

Resident’s associations in unfinished estates are taking place and demands are being made on Wexford County Council, through the elected representatives, to force immediate action on the matter.

Residents have been living in estates where roads and footpaths are unfinished, where street lights do not work, and where dangerous structures have been allowed to lie idle.

In some cases, water and sewerage services have been inadequate and people have been left with poor water supply or even with raw sewerage in their estates.

The residents who live in these estates are forced to face these problems.

In many cases, the bonds were inadequate and the Council may be forced to pick up the tab for a developer’s failure to complete an estate.

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