Call for Garda Armed Support Unit to be permanently based in Sligo Published: Monday, 24 May 2021 12:03
A Garda Armed Support Unit should be permanently based in Sligo - that s the view of Fine Gael Councillor Thomas Walsh, who will raise the matter at today s monthly meeting of Sligo County Council.
Councillor Walsh says a serious incident occurred in Sligo two weeks ago, involving two serious assaults and an arson attack on a vehicle and a house.
He claims it took over half an hour for the Armed Support Unit based in Ballyshannon to arrive in Sligo, while another unit was also dispatched from Galway to assist.
ARE we really being consulted on the Local Plan? The proposed housing numbers, including for the North Dorchester development, reflected in the Dorset Council Local Plan are determined by a central government algorithm not by local need and are not negotiable. In the absence of a Local Plan, landowners and developers, and not residents, will have the final say in any new housing. At the same time, if a Local Plan is rejected then central government will simply step in. You only have to look to the case of South Oxfordshire to see what lies ahead for us in Dorchester and the county. Despite little compelling evidence of need for 30,000 house to be built across green belt areas of Oxfordshire and overwhelming local opposition, the Secretary of State for Housing and Local Development, Robert Jenrick told the South Oxfordshire Council that if it didn t adopt their Local Plan it risked its powers to decide planning applications being taken out of its hands (Oxford Mail, December 11th,