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Call for Inishowen Development
Plan
02.12.09
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INISHOWEN councillor
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn is demanding that a
development plan for the peninsula be put in place
in the New Year.
He was speaking after his motion calling on Donegal
County Council to access funding in the forthcoming
budget for an Inishowen Development Plan was
successfully passed at Monday's Council meeting in
Lifford.
Cllr MacLochlainn said North Inishowen towns such as
Carndonagh and Moville had been waiting for decades
for town plans and the problem had to be urgently
addressed. |
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“It is simply
unacceptable that large areas of Inishowen have been
relying on a generic county development plan as a
framework for planning in their communities," said
Cllr MacLochlainn.
"In particular, the towns of Carndonagh and Moville
have been waiting for decades for town plans. They
have been failed for too long and the Council now
needs to urgently address this matter."
The Buncrana-based town and county councillor said
that, since his election in 2004, he had "repeatedly
challenged the council’s planning department on this
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"Last year, I was
assured that a 'Local Area Plan' approach would be
the way to address the gaps across the county. The
elected members reluctantly agreed to this approach
as a compromise. I am now calling on the planning
department and the senior management of the council
to honour this commitment.
“All of the people of Inishowen deserve to be
consulted and directly part of a plan for their
communities. The people of Buncrana and those living
in towns and villages along the border have had
plans in recent years.
"Now it is time for all the people of Inishowen to
benefit. When the economy eventually starts to turn
around and house building gradually recovers, we
need to be positioned in such a way to ensure that
we manage that development in the interests of all
not the few," he added. |
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