Expanding the city may require new laws
Thu, May 08, 2025
This is the issue Galway West TD John Connolly has brought to ministers after the revised National Planning Framework was published by the Government last month.
“I’m open to conversations about picking up where the review body in 2018 tasked with looking at the future of the two Galway local authorities left off,” he told the Advertiser last night. “Department of Environment officials recommended amalgamation of Galway city and county councils, but that came a cropper because it didn’t have widespread political support. I think we should be having mature conversations about this now, especially with projections that Galway city will grow by 50 per cent by 2040,”
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