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An application to build 30 houses at a site in north Westmeath may not be the green shoot of recovery it seems, after it was revealed that the applicant company had receivers appointed in October.

A county councillor has called for a security deposit to be introduced for local authority tenants after he saw the €800,000 Westmeath County Council spent on repairs to its housing stock in 2010.

An Athlone councillor drew the ire of the county manager for asking the same question three times at the annual budget meeting at the County Buildings in Mullingar on Monday.

For a third year in a row Westmeath businesses will not have to face a rate increase, it was revealed at the annual budget meeting held in the County Buildings on Monday, December 20. The annual rate on valuation was again set at €52.27.

Whether it indicates an increasing acceptance of the executive’s work at council, or a growing tendency towards political apathy on the part of the people of Westmeath, there were just a grand total of two submissions from members of the public on five important plans and reports which had been on a cumulative public display at a number of venues around the county of more than half a year.

The future of the Mullingar Arts Centre was assured this week with the unanimous acceptance of the Corrigan Report by the members of the county council after meetings with both its author and directors of the arts centre.

Plans to double the size of Athlone over the next 15 years were advanced this week (September 27) after councillors voted to accept the manager’s plan for 302Ha (750 acres) at Creggan on the eastern edge of the town.

To pay for a road that has been 10 years in the planning, Westmeath County Council has set a price of €82,500 per hectare on future development levies in Athlone, a figure that equates to just €835 per each quarter acre site.

The storm surrounding the Mullingar Arts Centre will begin to clear on September 21 when the members of Westmeath County Council finally discuss the recently commissioned report, and “fairly quickly after” present it to the Centre’s board of directors.

The venue for the upcoming meeting regarding the future of Mullingar Arts Centre has been changed to the gym at St Colman’s National School, Mullingar. The meeting will still take place at 8pm next Tuesday September 7.