Archive for October, 2008

Playtime on hold at Johnstown Garden site

Tuesday, October 28th, 2008

The old Johnstown garden centre was a landmark location, known to all, whether you spent a bank holiday perusing the pergolas or daily drove past it along the N7 it was somewhere we all knew well. The N7 road widening project marked the end of the line for the old site and a new improved [...]

Budgeting over the brink

Friday, October 17th, 2008

There’s been a huge amount of reaction the past couple of days over provisions in this hot off the press budget, particularly the over-70s medical scheme changes, but also class size increases and other draconian style measures contained within.
I don’t generally believe in dealing on the basis of media frenzy, as there is often a [...]

Managers Report out on Sallins Area Plan

Wednesday, October 8th, 2008

The Sallins Local Area Plan completed public consultation last August (as per previous), all submissions made were taken away and analysed by the council planners, and the results are now available in the ‘Managers Report’ which marks the next phase for the plan’s evolution.
The Managers report takes each submission in turn and details for each [...]

Cool for schools

Thursday, October 2nd, 2008

I’ve spoken before about the pressing case for a new school at Kill, and progress had gone particularly well recently with permission granted, site procured, tenders issued etc during the Summer. Well the final piece of the puzzle came last weekend when the Minister included it amongst seven schools in Kildare to get funding and [...]