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Clane residents opposed to scale of housing plan raises €17,000 for legal challenge Ongoing fundraiser  ); Local residents in Clane have raised almost €17,000, as of Wednesday, to pay for a planned legal challenge against what they say is proposed massive over-development of the town, resulting from a series of planning decisions made by An Bord Pleanála. The group Sustainable Clane, made up of residents and Clane Community Council members, said: “In a series of decisions on Strategic H...

BY a margin of 12 to five, councillors in Offaly have voted to remove the 2km buffer zone between wind turbines and towns and villages. The zones removal had b...

Galway Bay FM 21 May 2021 print Galway Bay fm newsroom – Galway County Council has published its Draft County Development Plan for 2022-2028 with a ten-week public consultation now open. The six year plan is a roadmap for how the county will be developed and improved over that time. Members of the public can view the draft plan on the Galway County Council website and make submissions from now until the 30th of July, online or in writing. It’s expected the final County Development Plan will...

Call for council to allow more families build homes in rural areas in Kildare More support needed  ); The issue of a lack of housing supply in rural areas has been raised at the May meeting of the Clane Maynooth Municipal District. At the meeting, Cllr. Brendan Wyse received figures for the number of houses procured by Kildare County Council in the last three years in the villages of Allenwood, Coill Dubh, Derrinturn and Robertstown. He said that when compared to the known units built on the ...

Ambitious new plan for growth in County Cork; consultation process underway The Draft Cork County Development Plan for 2022 to 2028 has been published by Cork County Council. Mary Corcoran digs deeper into the details on how it will affect and change the Rebel County and its people in the years ahead CORK County Council has published its Draft Cork County Development Plan, 2021, and is encouraging people to have their say on the document which sets out the vision for the future of the county f...

DEBATE RAGES ON AS COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN REMAINS TOP OF THE AGENDA The rapidly growing population of County Wexford over the next few years is why we need to accept the county development plan soon. That’s the view of the Director of Services at Wexford County Council Tony Larkin who says an extra 36 thousand people will be living here by 2040. The saga of the County Development Plan continues to rumble on as the council is currently in the process of developing a strategy that has caused c...

WEXFORD DEVELOPMENT PLAN DISCUSSED AT DAY LONG MEETING Wexford County Council has been meeting all day to discuss the County Development Plan 2021 to 2027 Councillors are being given the opportunity to discuss and analyse the plan which covers infrastructural developments over the next six years Chairman of Wexford County Council Ger Carthy says there is a lot to be gone through but the outcome will have a big impact on developments in Wexford in the future  

Séamus and Breanndán Ó Beaglaoich at home in Baile na bPoc, Co Kerry. \ Philip Doyle In some ways, they’re total opposites. One loves the sea, the other the land. One favoured books in school, the other not so much. One is solemn and reflective, the other witty and forthright. But still, despite their seeming differences, in the presence of brothers Séamus and Breanndán Ó Beaglaoich, you get the sense they’re on the same wavelength. That they have a connection perhaps only brothers c...

The latest round of funding under the Urban Regeneration and Development Fund (URDF) has again sidestepped the Northern Cross Route, a much awaited road development on Droghedas northside. The Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage, Darragh OBrien, announced €35.1 million in funding for three regeneration projects in the North-East region on Monday. The Louth one was the St. Nicholas Quarter and Backlands Regeneration in Dundalk which received €7.49 million. I understand there...

It isnt often that our local councillors get a chance to welcome good news so its difficult to blame them when they avail of the opportunity when it arises. So councillors from throughout Cork formed an orderly queue at Mondays online meeting of the local authority to welcome a funding allocation of €15.8m for the provision of sustainable transport iniatives such as greenways and cycle paths across the county. The allocations which include funding portions of €1.826m for Mallow/Kanturk, �...