CO ANTRIM: Plans for 500 additional new houses and apartments are on the cards for Lisburn in an eco-village setting by the Carvill Group.

CO ANTRIM: Plans for 500 additional new houses and apartments are on the cards for Lisburn in an eco-village setting by the Carvill Group.

Around £5.5m will be spent on creating a dual carriageway along part of the Prince William Road and the Knockmore Road. This will complete the link road around the North of the city from Sprucefield.

Local paper, the Lisburn Star, reported that the Woodbrook concept, which is to expand an already ambitious housing scheme by including almost 500 more homes in a European-style village square, which will be unique to Northern Ireland.

The developers said they were hopeful the new scheme would get the go-ahead from the planners as early as next month.