Robert Finnegan, CEO of Three Ireland, Waterford Chamber President Danette Connolly and Waterford Council CEO Michael Walsh
The Tánaiste has welcomed a new plan for investment in Waterford launched in the city today.
‘Waterford – Find Your Future’ is a collaboration between Waterford City & County Council, Waterford Chamber of Commerce and Waterford Institute of Technology, aimed at encouraging companies to invest in the city.
The group also proposes Waterford become a decarbonising zone, by having electrical supply exclusively from renewable energy sources, all transport to be powered by electricity or hydrogen, and all industrial practices to be carbon neutral by 2040. The plan says that this will radically decarbonise the city, cutting carbon emissions by 7% per annum.
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Architectural historian
The 5k lockdown has demonstrated the enduring appeal of the city as a place where people come together. A city is more than just a collection of buildings. It is also the spaces in-between. It is a public place where people linger, strolling about chatting and people watching. COVID-19 has exposed the inequality that exists in our mobility measures in our cities.
I posed the same question to architects across the country –
how can we make our cities work?
Dublin
Dominic Stevens, Director of JFOC Architects
Let s understand Dublin as a collection of neighbourhoods, not as a central business district surrounded by sprawling dormitory suburbs as was foreseen in the 1970s and 80s. In the great cities of Europe there are people living on every street and people working on every street. Shops at ground level, cafes on corners, daytime and night time activity. In Dublin this high-density lived-in city should stretch from the centre out to the surrounding u
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Waterford Council has been granted â¬27.6m by the government to rejuvenate the city centre.
The money will be spent across a total of 22 projects around the city centre in the wider Viking Triangle & Cultural Quarter areas.
The funding, which is the full amount applied for, is being allocated from the second round of the government’s Urban Regeneration and Development Fund (URDF) and follows on from the â¬110 million for the North Quays last November.
Waterford Fine Gael Senator John Cummins described the funding as ‘transformative’ and said the total investment will be in the region of â¬48.5 million:
âToday is a further watershed day and again demonstrates the government’s commitment to Waterford in the context of Project Ireland 2040. Waterford City and County Council received every cent of funding they requested of government and in reality the state investment will be far in excess of â¬27.6 because a number of the projects contained in the plan