FIVE local authority housing developments are at the planning/design stage in Tralee Municipal District at the moment with completion dates scheduled by the end of 2020.

The update on the housing list was given at the latest Tralee Municipal District meeting of councillors on Monday.

There are 37 units under construction at the moment — 15 in the Mitchels Regeneration Area, one seven bedroomed traveller accommodation unit on the Dingle Road and 21 units at Killeen in Tralee.

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Meanwhile, the 28-unit estate at Balloonagh approved at Monday’s meeting has an estimated construction start date for March 2019.

A 56 unit housing development at a site in Lohercannon has a provisional starting date for July 2019, a 22 unit estate at Farranwilliam, Ardfert is due to start in June 2019, an 18-unit Clúid development in the Mitchels Regeneration area is due to begin in May 2019 and another development of 15 units in Hawley Park/Mitchels Regeneration area is estimated to begin in 2019.

The number of approved applicants on the housing list who have chosen to be housed in the Tralee Municipal District is 2,124.

The vast majority (1,066) are looking for one-bedroom housing. There are 535 looking for 2-bed, 415 for 3-bed, 77 for 4-bed and 11 for 5-bed housing.