Julianstown Blog

Zoning

Just watch excellent Prime Time Investigates about crazy zoning up and down the country.

http://www.rte.ie/news/primetimeinvestigates/
The experience of the small village of Puckane very closely resembels Julianstown.
http://puckane.net/index.html

Julianstown is under severe pressure from the past and potential rezoning decisions of our councillors. Right now negotiations are in progress to zone enough land on the south of Drogheda for at least 5000 houses as part of the Drogheda Environs plan. At the same time negotiations are stepping up behind closed doors to rezone more land in Julianstown to double the size of the village

Add comment November 26th, 2007

€63M bypass for 7000 vehicles in Mayo

Yet another town bypassed for a fraction of the traffic in Julianstown. This time is is Charlestown in Mayo. The report says that the bypass will remove 7000 vehicles per day from the town. Good luck to them, but what about the 22,000 vehicles in Julianstown.

Add comment November 2nd, 2007