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More Info on New Naas School
A few posts back, I outlined that a new school had been agreed for Naas and that work had recently commenced, at a Craddockstown location, opposite the nursing home on the Craddockstown road. A number of people had queries about this, so here are further details of the plan:
- The school being built at Craddockstown road is to primary school specification.
- The school will temporarily open as a Secondary School in September 2014.
- It will begin enrolment one year at a time ; only first years will start in 2014.
- A site for a secondary school at Millennium Park is being sourced in parallel.
- Millennium Park is intended as the long term home of the new secondary school.
- Once Millennium Park site is operational the secondary school will move there.
- The Craddockstown site will then begin functioning as a regular primary school.
- Campus will include turn-around and drop-off facilities for traffic management.
- A new footpath and pedestrian crossing will be added along the road outside.
This all makes a lot of sense as the new school buildings will carry on, once the secondary moves across to Millennium Park, a new primary will function at Craddockstown instead.
You can apply to enrol for September 2014 already. You can do this by:
- Downloading this form.
- By calling into the VEC offices at Floor 5, Áras Chill Dara, Devoy Park, Naas.
- By phoning (045) 988000 and requesting an application form.
Government Determined to Tax Unfinished Estates
The Property Tax Exemption list published recently bears little relation to reality according to James Lawless, Fianna Fáil’s Local Area Representative for the Naas Area, North Kildare.
James conducted research last year to uncover that 85 named estates within County Kildare had been refused provision of maintenance services by the County Council as they were deemed unfinished. James had anecdotal suspicions of estates being “cut off” from council maintenance and he confirmed this was the case when he pursued the issue via Freedom of Information requests last autumn.
Access Concerns on New Childrens’ Hospital
Fianna Fáil’s Naas Area Representative, James Lawless, has expressed concern over the government’s choice of site for the childrens’ hospital and has expressed reservations on the city centre location chosen in Dublin 8.
“A great many people from the Naas Area and across North Kildare will have had occasion to visit Tallaght hospital with their children and most will have found it accessible, clean, efficient and convenient” said James.
First Impressions on Local Government Reforms
So Big Phil finally published his ‘opus magnus’ yesterday with all the detail on local government reforms including abolition of town councils, levelling of councillor ratios across the country and creation of much bigger wards in Dublin and the commuter belt.
Still trying to digest it all (it’s a big document!) but my first impressions are as follows: