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A senior engineer for Mayo County Council reported has stated there needs to be more involvement from community organisations to keep towns clean and litter free. Noel Burke, senior engineer for Mayo County Council, was responding to a question from Cllr Joe Mellet at the Swinford Electoral Area meeting this week about the numbers of people who will be working on town clean ups when the council outdoor staff takes annual builders holidays.

“All lands will be frozen until a route is chosen and accepted by the council,” was the stark reality that senior engineer for Mayo County Council, Noel Burke, told members of the Ballina Electoral Area this week. The members of the committee had been debating the issue of the new Crossmolina bypass which has caused plenty of debate in the area over the past number of months. When the route chosen by the council executive for the proposed new bypass was rejected by the council, all potential routes and lands around them were frozen for development.

A number of Ballina based councillors expressed their anger that the stalled N26 project has been left in limbo. Fine Gael councillor Seamus Weir told a meeting of the Ballina Electoral Area committee of his frustration at the silence on the issue since it was refused planning permission by An Bord Pleanála. He asked the council executive if there was an update on the project. “We had a meeting two months ago and we spoke at length about it,” he said. “I have heard nothing since about it, we adopted this plan in 2002 and since then we have had landowners having their lands frozen and now they still don’t know what is going to happen. It’s just not fair on them. Is this project dead in the water or what? The reality of this is that we do need this road, the people need the road. I’d favour downgrading the road from a dual carriageway if it made it easier for it to go ahead.”

A huge portion of the town of Kiltimagh will be sterilised for planning purposes if a decision by the Swinford electoral area committee made this week is ratified by the full meeting of Mayo County Council on Monday.

IRD Kiltimagh Ltd has scored another national first with the opening of the Adult Outdoor Gym adjacent to the beautiful Sculpture Park. The project is the first such fully dedicated facility of its type in Ireland.

Fine Gael Councillor Eugene Lavin expressed his concern at the lack of progress on the Kiltimagh development plan at the bi-monthly meeting of the Swinford electoral area committee this week.

Mayo County Council is running out of salt for gritting the county’s roads so a reprieve from the current cold snap will be welcome. At present there is only enough salt left to grit the roads until the end of this week and after that resources will be very limited.

A proposal to improve pedestrian access in Kilkelly and create a car park has met local opposition but consultation between the council and locals will continue.

The long awaited new theatre in Ballina got the go ahead to move to the tender stage this week, Ballina Town Council Mayor Michelle Mulherin revealed to the Mayo Advertiser yesterday. “The county manager has given the go ahead to let the project go ahead to the tender stage this week,” she said. “The tender documents have been prepared and will be advertised next week.”

The long awaited new theatre in Ballina got the go ahead to move to the tender stage this week, Ballina Town Council Mayor Michelle Mulherin revealed to the Mayo Advertiser yesterday. “The county manager has given the go ahead to let the project go ahead to the tender stage this week,” she said. “The tender documents have been prepared and will be advertised next week.”