600 UNITS VACANT IN GALWAY GHOST ESTATES

Date Published: 14-Oct-2011

There are 600 vacant housing units in Galway city and county.

That's according to the latest statistics on 'ghost estates' from the Department of the Environment.

However, the rate of vacant houses has fallen by a fifth since the Department first published its survey on the problem last year.

There are 483 complete but vacant units in County Galway while in the city, there are 117 vacant units.

Nationally, there are just over 2 thousand ghost estates, with work only being carried out on about 18 hundred.

County Councillor Tom McHugh says demolishing ghost estates is not the answer