Council to build Knocknacarra Community Centre

Date Published: 07-Sep-2007

Galway City Council is set to drive the Knocknacarra Community Centre project forward following the failure of a group representing various local interests to raise funds for it.

The project, which was mooted over ten years ago but failed to materialise under community direction, will be developed by the Local Authority at Millar’s Lane, in consultation with the Knocknacarra Community Association, the committee elected to bring the project to fruition.

City Councillors will be told next week by Tom Hernon, Director of Services at the City Council with responsibility for the Environment, Recreation, Amenity and Culture, that the best way forward to progress the project would be for the Council to be the lead agency.

In a report to the first Council meeting since the summer recess, he suggests that the City Council now engage with appropriate consultants to design a community facility — on a one-acre site close to the playing pitches at Millar’s Lane, off the Western Distributor Road — that will meet the needs of the general area and be compatible with surrounding buildings and the environment.

The KCA would…..