Cork County Council’s new Painting and Signage Scheme is being run in Passage West and Douglas this year. Under the scheme, either tenants or owners of buildings can get a grant of up to 50% of the cost of painting the on-street facade.
If you have 10 or more adjacent buildings on one street, they will get priority and a grant of 60% will be provided.
Existing plastic, neon signs can be replaced with 50% of the cost of heritage type signs.
If the tenant/owner wants to do the work themselves, up to 50% of the cost of the materials will be provided.
Applications received by the Municipal District Office before 28th April will be given priority. So the earlier you apply, the more likely you are to get grant aid. The application form provides all the details and conditions of the scheme: Painting scheme Ballincollig-Carrigaline
Yesterday was the official sod-turning on Astra Construction’s new Janeville development at Shannonpark. This is the first of Cork County Council’s Masterplan sites to be developed, so it was a big day for the Council. The Masterplan approach is intended to play a significant role in the Council’s response to the current need for housing.
However, there are significant infrastructural deficits in and around Carrigaline. These have been commented on in the context of yesterday’s sod-turning. I too commented on them in my submissions to both the Masterplan and to the Astra planning application.
An Bord Pleanála has issued a request for further information in respect of its proposed incinerator development at Ringaskiddy as follows: FI request from ABP, 20-03-2017
I got advance notice that this further information request was going to issue yesterday and received a copy of it today. How inutterably tragic that last week’s events with the loss of the Coastguard’s helicopter and four very precious lives should inadvertently superimpose themselves alongside the potential impact of Indaver’s proposed incinerator at Ringaskiddy. We do not yet know what happened in Blacksod Bay last week. But what we do know is that we need to make every effort that we humanely can to protect the air services of the Navy and the Coastguard. The reason for their existence is to serve society and the state. Our responsibility must be to do everything we can to safeguard those who devote their lives to that service.
Whilst I enjoy shopping in Lidl for myself and the family, I have concerns about the proposed location of a Lidl store in Barry’s Field, Douglas. I am not happy that those concerns have been addressed in the planning application and so I have outlined them in a submission to Cork County Council as follows:
“That Cork County Council would initiate its commitment to Green Infrastructure outlined in the Cork County Development Plan 2014 by ensuring the critical elements of green infrastructure within Cork County are identified and mapped during the remaining lifetime of the County Development Plan 2014:
Biodiversity and ecological networks
Water quality and flood attenuation infrastructure
Recreational/quality of life infrastructure.”
I wish green infrastructure wasn’t called green infrastructure. It makes it sound like some flowery, esoteric concept that costs a fortune.
It isn’t. In a modern society, with our increasing knowledge, our awareness of the finite nature of the earth’s resources and the impact of our footprint on them, the concept of green infrastructure is no longer a luxury. It is basic.
Cork County Council has issued a request for further information in relation to the planning application for redevelopment of the Convent, Passage West (16/7260).
Cork County Council has issued a further information request on the Harbour Heights planning application (16/7217). The developer has 6 months within which to submit the changes. Here is a copy of the amendments requested:
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Former Councillor in the Carrigaline Municipal District of County Cork