Residents’ fury over houses plan

Date Published: 25-Mar-2008

GALWAY City Council has moved to assure outraged Corrib Park residents that no decision has been taken to build new houses within the estate, and a meeting planned for next month is merely to get their feedback on a preliminary draft plan.

Residents were up in arms last week after receiving an unsigned letter from the local authority on Good Friday, inviting them to attend a meeting on Thursday, April 10 to view a preliminary draft plan for six terraced houses, which would be located next to the one-story houses within the Westside housing estate.

Local Councillor Pádraig Conneely (FG) said residents were up in arms about plans to build these new houses on open space within the 37-yearold estate, which already consists of 300 houses. “Corrib Park is an older, settled estate; and certainly I’m outraged that the Council would want to build houses on amenity lands,” he said.

Cllr Conneely said residents had approached him in the last fewweeks, when …………………