There was no funding for county Tipperary in an allocation of €14.7M today towards the resolution of “developer provided water services infrastructure” (DPI) in housing estates to enable the taking in charge of these estates by local Councils.
Today’s funding will benefit approximately 850 households across 9 counties.
Residents in the Rock Springs Estate(5 houses) in Kilross have been campaigning for works to be undertaken for several years to enable the Council to take over the estate which was completed by the developer who lives on site.
The matter was raised at the Oireachtas Petitions Committee in October 2022.
It is now seven years since the estate developer submitted an application to Tipperary County Council to take the estate in charge.
Housing estates with “developer provided water services infrastructure”, are estates that are not taken-in-charge and do not have their water services connected to the public network.
In the Kilross Estate the developer wished to connect to the Uisce Eireann network at construction but Tipperary Planning authority insisted on the installation of a wastewater service within the estate.
The estate has been in limbo since 2018 when the Department of Housing and Irish Water(now Uisce Eireann) signed an agreement to put estates with DPI to the back of the queue for resolution.
Due to public pressure the Government now provides a sum of funding annually to resolve outstanding estates.
A project in Cloughjordan, at the Townsfield estate and Newcastle at the Parc Ard Estate are included in a list of projects approved in principle when the enabling Uisce Eireann system has capacity for the estates to be connected.
