James Lawless – View from the Tracks

The Sallins Local Area Plan is due to be adopted on 26th January (next Monday) and as far as most of us were concerned, it was a done deal. The draft plan was issued last June, submissions were invited over the Summer, amendments were made accordingly, and a final round of submissions (on the amendments) [...]

The story of the Sallins bypass has trundled on for many years now but it seems at last we have some light at the end of the tunnel.
To give some background, the village has grown from probably 500 people in the mid-nineties to nearly 5,000 by the early naughties and the nature and geographic spread [...]