Fingal – First draft of Plan due next March
FINGAL’S new County Development Plan must be agreed by April 2011 with the first draft expected to go on public display next March. Councillors met last week to begin the next phase of the preparation of the Plan following on from the initial round of public consultation during the summer. Public representatives play an important...
Local area plan to be completed
A LONG-awaited local area plan for Rivermeade in St Margaret’s will be completed by the middle of next year, according to Fingal County Council. Cllr Tom Kelleher (Lab) put a motion to a meeting of the Balbriggan/Swords Area Committee last week asking for an update on the RV1 or rural village plan. The council’s planning...
Bus gate halves journey times in capital
BUS journey times through Dublin city centre have fallen by half since the controversial bus gGate started operating last July. City traders claim the ban on cars using College Green in the morning and evening peak is killing business. But up to 90 million Dublin Bus passengers a year will experience a marked reduction in...
Shannon rail bridge nears completion
THE FINAL stage of work to replace one of Iarnród Éireann’s three railway crossings of the Shannon, a bridge near Lough Tap, between Dromod and Carrick-on-Shannon in Co Leitrim, gets under way today. Over the next 12 days the line will be closed as the new steel bridge and concrete deck is lifted into place...
Planning board defers key Corrib pipeline decision
AN BORD Pleanála has deferred a key decision due to be have been delivered yesterday on the controversial Corrib gas onshore pipeline in north Mayo. The appeals board told The Irish Times that Shell EP Ireland’s application to modify the gas onshore pipeline route was under “active consideration” during board meetings that took place from Wednesday...
