40 unfinished and unwanted housing estates face demolition.
Work is underway to demolish 40 Irish ghost estates next year.
Housing Minister Jan O’Sullivan has identified the 40 unfinished estates which she wants cleared in the next 12 months.
This is an initial list with plans to add other properties to the hit list where it is clear they can never be sold.
Ms O’Sullivan’s department has liaised with local authorities to identify the estates and council officials are now in touch with the banks and developers associated with each site.
Her spokesman said: “The vast majority of these estates are only at the stage where foundations are laid or groundworks carried out. We are looking to return them to green field status.”
He added no one lives in the estates on the list but the locations could not be identified until the owners had decided whether to complete them or bulldoze the existing work.
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