Clúid Housing
Intent: Improving understanding, resolving issues preventing delivery of housing, discussing new opportunities
Details: Social housing provision
Intent: Improving understanding, resolving issues preventing delivery of housing, discussing new opportunities
Details: Social housing provision
Intent: Achieve the growth and transformation envisioned for Galway and the West region in Project Ireland 2040
Details: Economic development of the Galway Metropolitan Area
Intent: To introduce Benefacts to the CCMA and make a presentation on the trial Benefacts Analytics project.
Details: Presentation to City and County Management Association
Intent: A public lecture at NUI Galway (and a meeting) with civil engineer, Nicole Lazarus. Her lecture presented the lessons learnt in implementing the One Planet Living principles in the development of NW Bicester, the UK’s first eco-town. Nicole is Bioregional's Oxfordshire Programme Manager.::Given the National Planning Framework's goal of growing the population of the Northern and Western Region of Ireland by between 160,000 and 180,000 people, and Galway City up to 45,000, by 2040, the West Region felt that the information exchange would be most useful for locally elected representatives and local authority key staff.
Details: Public lecture organised by Engineers Ireland's West Region on 'One Planet Living for Housing Growth Areas'
Intent: Rejection of proposed amendment.
Details: Proposed Amendment to Galway City Plan to allow change to Kirwan Junction
Intent: : • Legal change • Culturally Appropriate – the need for better standards. • New Type Accommodation – innovation an end to hardstands -the views and perspectives of the Traveller community. • Management of sites and group housing.
Details: Homeless cases, substandard housing case, threat of evictions on the Cúl Tra Site
Intent: Guidance with regard to possible funding options available and assistance in obtaining, where appropriate, said funding.
Details: Galway Centre for Independent Living wishes to receive guidance with regard to sourcing capital funding to save their transport service. The fleet of buses is ageing, costing a lot in repairs and the fleet needs to be upgraded.
Intent: Improving understanding, resolving issues preventing delivery of housing, discussing new opportunities
Details: Social housing provision
Intent: Maintain, and ideally reinforce, the current zoning of High Amenity Agricultural for several parcels of land within the existing Galway Coastal Green Belt. That is, ensure these parcels are kept for the majority public good as High Amenity Agricultural zoned areas, and the Galway Coastal Green belt is not subject to further destabilizing fragmentation by allowing residential and/or other building on these parcels.
Details: Lobbied City and Government official to maintain zoning of lands as High Amenity Agricultural in the DRAFT Galway City Development Plan 2017-2023. This lobbying objective, to keep the current zoning of the stated areas as in previous City Development Plans, is along very similar lines to the advice, ...
Intent: Successfully Blocking the rezoning of lands at Rosshill from Agricultural to Residential::Successfully blocking the destruction of the most significant remaining undisturbed heritage site in Galway City, the Grounds of the Monastery and Round Tower at Rosshill and the breach of the important green coastal belt from Oranmore to Merlin Park
Details: Rezoning of lands from Agricultural to Residential in the Rosshill area in Galway City Development Plan 2017 2023