Re: Re: Limerick City Boundary Extension
@justnotbothered wrote:
very true but it’s more important we don’t allow the Clare thing become the main story, it’s a small part of the bigger picture.
I hate to disagree but the Clare side of the greater urban area of the city will grow enormously over the coming decades.
The Northern Relief Road will be the motor for that.
So far both the Clare and Limerick County Councils have cherry picked the city’s population by focusing exclusively on private housing.
Resulting in the extreme affluent / disadvantage divide that runs to the core of all of the city’s dysfunctional woes.
The bigger picture is that the city’s dysfunctional problems is hurting everybody irrespective if you are living in Annacotty, Raheen, Garryowen, Meelick or Parteen.
Let’s say that if both Limerick and Galway city were ever shortlisted for a major industrial investment and both of them equally fulfilled its requirements.
A decision will have to be made and I would fear Limerick’s dysfunctional image would sway against it in favour for Galway.
All the contentious issues should be put on the table now and especially for the Clare side, where the residents living in Meelick, Parteen, Ardnacrusha, Shannon Banks and Westbury should discuss their rural / suburban relationship with the city.
We need one administrative authority to coordinate the city’s growth for the benefit of everyone.
Interestingly Clare FM carried this story today.
Clare Has Highest Excess Of Residential Land (Clare FM)
It’s claimed that Clare has a greater excess of residential land than any other county in Ireland.
A report in today’s Irish Independent says Clare County Council has zoned 4,317 hectares of land for residential development, 717% of the amount required to meet demand up until 2016.
In percentage terms, only four local authorities have a greater excess of land zoned for residential land than Clare County Council
The worst offending county is Roscommon, where nearly 1,200% of the required land is zoned as residential while, by contrast, Limerick City Council has only earmarked half the land it requires for development going forward
