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Castlebar has a political edge as the home of the Taoiseach but businesspeople in the town are not working together to take advantage of opportunities readily available to advance the town.

The next Castlebar Chamber open forum will take place on April 26 at the Harlequin Hotel at 6.30pm.

With the ongoing survival of the Linenhall Arts Centre a matter of serious concern following major cuts to their funding over the past few years, two motions relating to the arts centre found their way on to the agenda for the April meeting of Castlebar Town Council.

The rate for Westport town remains unchanged following the town’s budget meeting which took place last Thursday evening.

Unlike their colleagues in Mayo County Council and Castlebar Town Council this week the elected members of Ballina Town Council failed to strike a budget at the annual budget meeting.

Fine Gael councillor Brendan Henaghan has called for a break to be given to rate payers in relation to parking charges in the town. The Castlebar based businessman was speaking at the annual budget meeting of Castlebar Town Council this week when he said: “Can we see something done on car parking for the rate payers. It would be good to give something back, to those who continue to pay their rates on time and pay up. It’s a gesture that would be appreciated by them.”

Castlebar Town Council approved its budget for 2012, which included no increase in rates, on Tuesday. The members approved the €7 million budget, which will see a rateable income of €4,033,383 needing to be raised by the council during the year. The council aims to have an income for €2, 346,322 from its other revenue sources over the next 12 months, with other payments from the local government fund and from pension related deductions contributing some €775,000 to the council’s coffers.

Ballina Town Council has seen its funding from central government through the Local Government Fund cut by €118,563 for 2012, a reduction of 8.5 per cent on the amount it received last year. When looked at on a five year basis the reduction in the funding from the Local Government Fund has been reduced by €520,754 since 2008. The total reduction in all state grants for Ballina in the past five years is expected to be down €632,222 this year.

A group of innovative business owners from Westport have come together to create a plan which will see the Market Lane area of Westport become Ireland’s first sustainable neighbourhood in the west of Ireland.