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Galway Bay FM
21 May 2021
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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 be published in May 2022.
The draft plan currently under consideration also includes sites that are of strategic importance and mutual interest to both Galway City and County Councils.
Views vary on what should happen along the old East Mayo Railway Route Published: Friday, 09 April 2021 09:33
The jury remains out on whether the old East Mayo railway line will be developed as a greenway or remain intact to secure a rail service
The Draft Mayo County Development Plan (2021 – 2027) closed for submissions last month (March).
It received an exceptionally large volume of public submissions from people who want a greenway - walking/cycling route - developed along the old railway line in East Mayo.
However, West on Track, a group that has been campaigning for decades to have the railway line restored, also made a joint submission to the local authority in favour of Mayo County Council’s stance on protecting the Western Rail corridor for future use.
In 2018, the ownership of the great granite was transferred in its entirety to Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council who now operate and manage the harbour. Prior to that, the harbour was operated by The Dun Laoghaire Harbour Company, a state company, dissolved in 2018 under the Ports Act.
1817 - Construction of the East Pier to a design by John Rennie began in 1817 with Earl Whitworth Lord Lieutenant of Ireland laying the first stone.
1820 - Rennie had concerns a single pier would be subject to silting, and by 1820 gained support for the construction of the West pier to begin shortly afterwards. When King George IV left Ireland from the harbour in 1820, Dunleary was renamed Kingstown, a name that was to remain in use for nearly 100 years. The harbour was named the Royal Harbour of George the Fourth which seems not to have remained for so long.